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Weekly UpdatesCHRIST'S CHURCH OF the Valley in San Dimas, California, has been growing steadily in recent years, making a switch to digital audio mixing a virtual necessity. With multiple locations, six weekend services, and a broadcast component that includes live streaming and re-broadcast in New Zealand and Australia, its audio paths has increased in number far beyond the capabilities of conventional analog. To meet these needs, this evangelical contemporary church selected two Allen & Heath iLive consoles: an iLive-176 for the main sanctuary and an iLive-80 for the broadcast center, located in a separate building.
Patrick Gourley, technical director for the church, worked with Anaheim-based Sound Bridge during the console selection process. "All our engineers are volunteers," he said. "So in addition to all the technical requirements, we had to find something with a fast learning curve. We field tested eight or nine digital consoles and kept coming back to the iLive."
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For the main sanctuary, an iLive-176 was selected. "What drew me to iLive was having all the dynamic processing on board, with dedicated knobs for everything on the channel strip," notes Gourley. "For most of our engineers, we could get them up and mixing in under an hour."
When the church's broadcast needs expanded, it turned to Allen & Heath's iLive-80. Broadcast audio is mixed in a separate building about 500 feet from the sanctuary, and the two consoles are connected with a single Cat5 cable, with a Linksys hub to boost the signal.
The inputs are sent from the stage to the iLive-176 and relayed to the iLive-80. The stereo mix is then sent back to the video booth in the church for capture along with the switched live video on an Apple G5 computer. "What's amazing is, even though we're sending the audio 500 feet there and 500 feet back, we can't sense any audible delay," said Gourley.
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