![]() ![]() The installation was able to utilize much of the existing fiber infrastructure for the Optocore network, with a few additional strands installed by Paragon 360 to accommodate the Q7s’ bandwidth requirements. “We’ve multed all 15 vocal channels and split them into two channels, which allow us to have separate mixes,” Smith says. The macros are super powerful and the Waves integration is very helpful.” You can make the console do whatever you want. Fortunately, the console can handle a boatload of inputs and outputs to accomplish what we need. ![]() It’s in addition to our normal services and is massive we have a full percussion rig and a whole rhythm section with drums and two guitar players and full tracks. “It’s like a Broadway-level ticketed event. ![]() “We do a really big Christmas program every year called ‘Gift of Christmas,’” he explains. We’ve multed all 15 vocal channels and split them into two channels, which allow us to have separate mixes.”Īnd come Christmas, the production becomes even larger. “The monitor desk runs over 50 outputs and we’re running close to 200 inputs. Smith cites the configurability and high I/O counts the Q7s afforded the church: “We have a big service, a full choir and orchestra, and lots of inputs, so we needed a big input count, and with auxes and submixes we’re pushing 48 outputs,” he says. So it just made sense to stay with DiGiCo.” Plus, my boss, Bryan Bailey, came out of First Baptist Dallas and they were all DiGiCo over there. “As soon as I came on staff, we started talking about doing the console switchover, and we already had an SD5 in our Student Ministry Building, which just had opened up right after I came on staff. “We created what we called a ‘failure log,’ and in a little over a year we had between 60 and 70 entries,” he recalls. When Mike Smith, Prestonwood Baptist Church’s Live Production Lead and Lead Audio Engineer, first arrived over two years ago, he quickly realized that the church’s existing audio console infrastructure was nearing the end of its useful life. The Prosper campus’ new Q7 is supported with two SD-Racks onstage and one more in the broadcast studio, plus an Orange Box for its wireless mics. ![]() Also, SD-MiNi Racks are located at both FOH and monitors, with another SD-MiNi Rack in the amp room, and an SD-Nano Rack positioned up in the catwalk. On stage are two more SD-Racks, plus an SD-Nano Rack for tracks, with yet another SD-Rack found in the church’s broadcast studio. The 140-acre Plano campus is also now fitted with an ample complement of I/O stations, including two SD-Racks backstage, along with an Orange Box loaded with DMI-DANTE and DMI-OPTO Optocore cards for wireless microphone inputs. “The monitor desk runs over 50 outputs and we’re running close to 200 inputs,” says Mike Smith, Prestonwood’s Live Production Lead and Lead Audio Engineer. ![]()
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