Colorado church upgrades with Clair Brothers
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“Brave Church had already planned to launch their first multi-site facility in Broomfield in a building that is thirty miles northwest of the main campus,” explained Kurt Butler president of Butler Engineering & Technology Group (BETG) who provided consulting and technical infrastructure design services to church leadership. “BETG designed the audio system using the Clair Brothers kiT12+ and kiT-Sub+ powered loudspeakers and subwoofers. The kiT Series was a perfect match with the performance criteria, physical size, and cost.”
With the new location successfully outfitted for future-oriented growth, Brave Church re-evaluated the state of its main Englewood sanctuary. Butler continued, “The audio systems were ten to twenty years old, and the sanctuary aesthetics had a traditional feel consistent with the church’s past, but not with its future. Overall, we worked with the client to achieve their performance systems and interior design goals. This involved new rigging; augmented lighting; new video acquisition, control, and distribution; and a completely new Clair Brothers audio system with speakers, amps, processing, control, and infrastructure.”
The audio system choice for upgrading the main sanctuary was Clair Brothers i218 line arrays and CS218 subwoofers to energize the church with compelling sound quality and impact.
A Yamaha CL5 digital mixer gives church staff command of the system, with inputs from a host of new Shure ULX-D wireless microphone systems and connection to the stage from Yamaha RIOs. A smaller Yamaha QL1 digital mixer serves the church’s video and post-production needs, while a Digital Audio Labs LiveMix personal monitoring system gives the musicians on stage complete control over their individual mixes. A Lake LM44 DSP handles all of the loudspeaker processing and protection, and a rack of Lab.gruppen D-Series amplifiers power the system.
(Jim Evans)
