UK - Wigwam Acoustics has recently completed a comprehensive audio and video installation at Danbury Mission Church in Essex, specifying a full Roland Systems Group REAC (Roland Ethernet Audio Communication) system including consoles, stage boxes and personal monitors for the job.
The church, which has a packed events calendar, as well as the Sunday services, requested a high quality, fully encompassing system that would be flexible enough to cater for speech, live bands, vision and playback but simple enough to be used by a number of people with varying technical knowledge.
The Roland M-480 48 Channel Live Digital Mixing Console was chosen for FOH together with the S-4000 REAC Merge Unit, one S-0816 in the rack and one S-4000D REAC Splitter to supply audio and embedded power to the two S-1608 stage boxes with seven M-48 personal monitors for the stage. Roland V-Drums were also used as part of a silent stage set up with the M-48's, allowing the musicians to hear their own output through the M-48 and headphones without making a sound - ideal for rehearsal.
On the video side, Wigwam specified the Roland V-800HD Multi format video switcher. The V-800HD is ideal for any live event or installation that requires the freedom to connect to any type of source - in this case a projector, laptop, TV or DVD player. As a true multi format video mixer, there is no need to match input sources to the output resolution as every input has its own broadcast quality scaler that can scale each source as required. The V-800HD is controlled by RTI advanced control products, set up with a dedicated button for each source allowing the user to simply choose from a control panel of eight switches.
"We chose the M-480 and RSG products for this job as the church requested a high quality, reliable product at a suitable price point," commented Wigwams Phil Goldsworthy who specified the products for Danbury Mission Church, "RSG products are well supported and are popular with the church market."
Kelvin Ward, technical director for the Church commented, "I am very pleased with the system which despite its complexity and advanced capabilities most users have found extremely intuitive in use. I'm confident that with our investment in a superb modern building and some of the latest AV equipment available it will cater for our needs for many years to come."
