Published Date

August 7, 2024

Client

CIA Northampton

Duration

3 weeks

Project Type

Audio Visual

Concert mixing desk

Christ Image Assembly is an Evangelical Church founded in 2014, and they are based in Northampton England with a congregation of about 200 members attended in person and virtual services.

Having kicked off Sunday worship events with gifted pre-owned audio and video
systems from friends of the church , in 2022 the church leadership decided it was
time to invest in proper AV systems to meet the demands of their music ministry,
and the need to serve their online congregations in order to forestall increasing issues of bad audio output and video production both in the premises and online audience, which was beginning to frustrate the music team and the AV team who are limited in personnel resources with 3 team members running the AV department.

The sound production mixing console was upgraded to Allen & Heath QU-32 from the 16 channel analogue mixing console, this was complemented with Sennheiser EW100 G4-1G8 Handheld Mic System with 845S Supercard’d Tx Wireless Microphone systems for the choir members, and the sound output was powered by DAS Audio VANTEC 12 High/Mid frequencies cabinets, and Vantec 18A, 18″compact long excursion bass-re9ex subwoofer, and the Vantec ARTEC-506A-230 in the main auditorium, and in the satellite rooms for nursing mothers and the church once via a matrix mix channel for level control independence of the main auditorium audio level. The music team also enjoyed the infusion of new musical instruments which included a Rolad VAD 360 electric drum set.

The video production system was improved with the DataVideo HS1600 MarkII portable vision mixing system, which provides remote control PTZ capability to the complementary Datavideo PTC-140 PTZ Cameras, this solutions innovatively allow one person manage the video production element of the church’s video production during worship events. This enables streaming directly into the different streaming platforms, and video signals distributed into the satellite rooms within the facility. The lighting system installed in the auditorium includes ADJ LED Par Cans and LED Batons along with ADJ LINK 4-Universe DMX Controller.

The church leadership were impressed by the quality of service and solutions recommended and installed by our team, especially for the fact that we put into consideration their operational situation and our approach to assisting them invest on their first audio-visual spend from a budget perspective.