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"Helping You Sound Your Best"

First Christian Church

Champaign,  Illinois

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COMMONS AREA

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This growing congregation is outgrowing their new campus.  The family life center serves as a gymnasium,  fellowship hall and worship center.

 

The system was designed in the fall of 2001 and completed in January of 2003.  The worship minister, had very big ideas: most of which we were able to fit within his budget.   The acoustic treatments were designed along with the architect, Chuck Ackers of Ackers and  Associates, Crawfordsville, Indiana.  The splaying of the side wall and the application of 2" thick "Tectum" on the back wall of the room have provided a controlled room that supports congregational singing.

 

The main cluster is assembled from JBL components.  Each has two 15" woofers and a 60 x 50 degree BiRadial horn with a 1.5" throat compression driver.

 

The sub woofers are custom built systems from Concert Systems LLC of Southbend Indiana.  They were designed to provide a very deep sound while retaining a high impact level.   Gary Lavengood  designed the boxes to fit into the space under the platform.  Each box is home to a JBL 18" woofer.  

 

The 40 channel Soundcraft mixing console is right at home in the elevated control booth along with the video and lighting controls.  A few components were reused from the congregation's old system,  most of these are in the control booth including wireless microphones,  an effects processor and recorder.

 

The 61 space amplifier rack is located in storage room to the right of the platform.   A 70 volt line speaker above the rack allows monitoring in the back room.  A digital system processor controls the entire main system part, and the sub woofer system.   The five monitor system use analog processing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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