Date: July 2006

XTA BACKS THE WHITEHORSE

When a church is able to build a new home, one of the many advantages is that it can incorporate a state-of-the-art audio system, designed specifically for its individual needs. Combined with the benefits of designing the acoustic space itself from scratch, there can be no better way for a church to broadcast its message.

Such is the case of the Christian City Church Whitehorse, an Australian Pentecostal church which has recently opened a brand new, purpose-built base in Vermont, Victoria.

The C3 Centre includes a 1000 seat auditorium, where the church’s main services take place. The services combine a wide variety of speech and music so, when the sound reinforcement system for the auditorium was specified, it needed to ensure that clarity was optimised for both and XTA DP6i digital loudspeaker processors were chosen to be at the system’s heart.

The system was designed by Paul Horwood of AV systems integrator Mozaix, with assistance from Graeme Stevenson of Production Audio Services, XTA’s Australian distributor. The stereo loudspeaker system is based on flown EAW enclosures, combined with subs, stage-mounted front fills and further cabinets to be introduced (for balcony delay) when stage two of the system is implemented.

The XTA DP6is take care of crossover, alignment, equalisation and limiting for the system, working in conjunction with Powersoft amplification and an APB Dynasonics console.

“We chose DP6is for the project for their excellent combination of features, sound quality and price,” says Graeme Stevenson. “We needed to offer the best possible sound quality and the best feature set, but within a reasonably tight budget, as is the case on most projects!”

He continues: “The DP6is are also very easy to install. It was a simple matter of bolting the units into the rack, cabling them into the system, plugging in a PC with AudioCore and programming in the EAW provided settings for the loudspeakers. Then we commissioned the system using SIA Smaart Live 5.”

The team allowed the system to ‘bed in’ for a few weeks, before returning to make any necessary adjustments via Smaart. But that was it - the system is literally ‘set and forget.’ “It doesn't get much easier!” smiles Graeme.

“The church is very happy with the result,” he continues. “The system is only as strong as it's weakest link and all the components are very high quality products. It’s performing excellently, just as we expected.”

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