DANVILLE, VA – Boone Audio Inc. worked with White Oak Worship Center (formerly Full Gospel Fellowship Church) on a $300,000 AV system with large screen displays, cameras and post-production gear to edit services for broadcast. Its sound system includes a full complement of WorxAudio gear.
"White Oak Worship Center's sanctuary is 105 feet long by 96 feet wide with a slightly arched ceiling and seating capacity for approximately 600 people," noted Paul Boone, president/CEO of Boone Audio. "The stage/pulpit area faces into the length of the space and features a uniquely designed area for the choir that is located over the orchestra pit. In addition to the main floor that slopes upward toward the back of the room, there is a balcony at the rear that houses the FOH mix position."
Boone noted that for White Oak's contemporary services, which includes "a good sized praise band to augment the worship leader and six backing vocalists" plus a 40-voice choir, the church sought "a top notch sound system that delivered first-rate speech intelligibility while also being capable of handling high SPL music reproduction."
Boone's Jeremy Sarine and Hugh Sarvis, WorxAudio's CEO and director of engineering, came up with a design that included a center cluster of six WorxAudio TrueLine V8i-P two-way line array loudspeakers flown at a height of 24 feet over the front of the pulpit/stage area. The gear, suspended by WorxAudio's TrueAim Grid, blends into its surroundings.
A seventh TrueLine V8i-P is mounted to the rear of the TrueAim Grid. Unlike the six enclosures facing into the sanctuary, this loudspeaker serves as a monitor for the choir and is visually hidden from the congregation. For stage monitoring, four WorxAudio 8M two-way passive loudspeakers-augmented by Aviom personal mixers-round out the onstage monitor setup.
For the low end, there are two WorxAudio TrueLine TL218SS-P subwoofers plus a single TL118SS-PMD2 subwoofer. All three enclosures are housed in custom recessed cubicles under the front edge of the stage. The two TL218SS-P subwoofers are positioned at the left and right edges of the stage with the TL118SS-PMD2 enclosure in the center.
"We began consulting on this job as far back as January of 2009 when we gained access to the building's architectural blueprints and CAD drawings," said Sarine, noting the advantages of being included early on in the design process, citing the arrangement of the "subwoofer cubicles and numerous other aspects of this project" as a case in point.
"Hugh Sarvis was a tremendous help," Sarine added, "not only in the design of the sound system, but in its final tuning as well. The more sets of eyes we have looking at a project like this, the more successful we are as a contractor.
"We continue to receive compliments for the design and performance of the entire audio-visual system," Sarine noted. "Several pastors from various area churches have visited White Oak Worship Center to experience the system and this has led to new projects for our firm. In my mind, that's the best compliment of all."
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