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First Christian Church
Champaign, Illinois
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OASIS
COMMONS
AREA
KIDS
THEATER
GYM-A-TORIUM
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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