When a 185-year-old church needed an audio upgrade, one of the world’s leading generation solution providers, Diversified, joined the project. Today, the church has the site of the world’s largest permanent installation of immersive sound L-Acoustics L-ISA generation.
For the most part, the so-called Woodstock evokes the famous New York Rock Music Festival in 1969, or perhaps Snoopy’s feathered friend from Peanuts. But the citizens of Atlanta will tell you that Woodstock is a town 30 miles north of downtown Atlanta, and one of the oldest lighthouses in the community is the first Woodstock Baptist Church (FBCW), whose history dates back 185 years to 1837 when it was founded as Enon. Church.
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In 1986, when the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Johnny M. Hunt, who joined the church as senior pastor, the FBCW really thrived, leading to the structure in 2005 of a 7,200-seat worship center to accommodate his growing congregation. of more than 20,000 members. Seventeen years later, it was time for some other update.
Diversified came on the scene just two years ago to provide the church with an AVL upgrade for its in-person worship center. “First Baptist Woodstock has two service functions to participate in, and while they have other musical elements and characteristics, they show a common need for sound clarity, coherent tone, and great margin but intimate sound. They were asked to reconsider a position that would feel just as intentional for those two other departments,” said Tim Corder, Diverse Director of Strategic Account, Cult and Acting Environments. “After spending several days with the church’s artistic team in an intense ideation session, we envisioned a formula anchored in the party in the hall that would have the ability to move very temporarily from one service to another. in 15 minutes. “
From the beginning, the Diversified team felt strongly that L-ISA was the right solution for the project. “They needed a formula that could give a size to what they were doing in each department, as well as give an impression to their huge room. small in size, privacy and engagement,” said Nick Geiger, diversified’s account manager and audio manager. “We knew L-ISA would do both and also allow them to convert a transfer to move between their two functionality configurations. “
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FBCW production manager Josh Belokonny noted that they first turned to Diversified because the Worship Center’s original single-center speaker formula didn’t meet their needs. for everyone,” he said. But he also cautioned that a new left/right linear matrix formula might not have been the right selection for a replacement. “There’s a lot of architecture that’s very space-specific here, and we had to take that into account. The popular left and right bays in this room were an impediment from the video point of view, as they caused a lot of line-of-sight problems.
The solution came here in the form of L-Acoustics’ new line of Series A speakers. The A Series, and more particularly the A15i, was selected for several reasons: first and foremost because the generation and sound of the box mimic the larger L speakers. “Acoustic speakers like the K1, K2 and K3,” said Josh Maichele, project manager for L-Acoustics Applications, worship position. Secondly, some of the main benefits of A-series products are their length and weight. We were able to get long diversity because the A15i is a line source, but we were also able to fold the die faster with the A15i Wide, which allowed us to decrease line life and keep the dies well above the lines of sight of the LED walls.
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Using Soundvision, Diversified and L-Acoustics specified a main-level formula comprising five networks of five A15i Focus speakers on an A15i Wide, supported via 4 intermediate suspensions of two KS28 submarines. This formula is flanked by two expansion bays of five A10i Focus in one A10i Wide, which are complemented by two filling bays of five A10i Focus in an A10i Wide and two remote horizontal filling bays of 3 A10i Wide. Below, 14 coaxial 5XTs are distributed along the level stairs for front filling, with two X8s offering on the far left and right front filler. Additional A10i Wide speakers are located in the space to fill in and under the balcony, while above the level, two suspensions of an A15i Wide and an A15i Focus plus two A15i Wide mounts serve as chorus monitors. In total, 3 LA12X, 15 LA4X and 4 LA2Xi amplified controllers force and process the home and return formulas, all of which are controlled by the new L-Acoustics L-ISA II processor.
Another vital merit of opting for the L-ISA design based on the A series, and which surprised the church, was its load savings. “Once we started employing numbers, this implementation of L-ISA was almost 25% less a classic left/right-based system, as we were able to use the A15i and A10i budget speakers,” Corder said. “The overall price between functionality and investment literally couldn’t be affected by any other solution. “
“As a budget manager, when I heard about what L-ISA would offer us (more clarity, intensity, and better visuals than we could have achieved with a popular matrix formula), I automatically thought, ‘This is going to be very expensive. ‘ So I was surprised and I was very happy that it was cheaper,” Belokonny confirmed.
With classic left/right matrix systems, only 15% of the audience sitting in the middle band of the room hears things in true stereo. With L-ISA, nearly three-quarters of First Baptist fans are now in the “sweet spot. “to experiment with spatialized audio.
“In terms of seating, it is now the largest venue in the world that has an L-Acoustics L-ISA configuration permanently installed,” Corder said. “Diversified finished the first house of worship assignment with L-ISA in 2019, it’s wonderful for us to see the generation and assignments continue to grow. “
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Belokonny is equally excited about his new reality. ” When you pay critical attention to audio somewhere for several years, it’s amazing to walk around the room and make it sound absolutely different overnight,” he said. “There’s a lot of emotion and paz. de brain knowing that what we can produce now is much more accurate and represents what’s going on stage. I know this will inspire praise leaders and band members to play more, and create enthusiasm in the choir. I can’t wait to see where we go from there, because our new baseline is a giant leap by leaps and bounds bigger than the most productive our previous formula has ever been. And the room is consistent, giving everyone the opportunity to be much more unified and feel that we are all in combination in this time of worship.
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