SILVERDALE, WA – Rose Media owner Chad Rose specified a Tannoy VQ LIVE system for Newlife Kitsap and its four Sunday services at Klahowya Secondary School in a gym that can hold about 500 worshippers.
Rose, who had recently used Tannoy VQNET 60s at another house of worship in the area, and who has worked as a creative arts pastor himself, specified loudspeaker components that would be used with Newlife Kitsap's existing audio setup.
The new gear – two VNET 218DR LIVE subs and two VQNET 60 LIVE three way cabinets stacked above them on the ground on both sides of the stage – works with the church's existing Yamaha LS9 console, Aviom PM system, small lighting rig, two large video screens and a portable stage.
"They were looking for a more high-powered system, an install type system with good coverage and high SPL, but, at the same time, one that was very compact and could be set up and torn down quickly, put in a trailer and taken away," Rose noted.
The four-box system – half the number of boxes that would have been required with other gear – fit the bill, and the directivity was another plus. "It's a very large, very live space," Rose said. "The issue was trying to keep sound off the side walls while still adequately covering the room."
Adam Deardorff, creative arts director at Klahowya, Newlife's Central Campus, helps design larger audio systems for the church. Though skeptical at first, he and Newlife's techs are pleased with the setup.
"We did not do any acoustic treatments here and these cabinets are working out for us. So far, I'm super-happy with them. We did all the EASE modeling and plugged in a lot of different cabinets and the Tannoy just looked perfect," Deardorff said. "And their portability – the wheel racks and so on – make them a lot easier for us to bring in and out."
"With the processing in the boxes, there's very little tuning needed," Rose said. "They're all volunteers setting this up. With a passive system they could easily plug the wrong speaker into the wrong amp, or mess up the processing, but this being self-contained, there's a lot less room for error.
Tannoy VQ LIVE was chosen, Rose added, "as an all inclusive package" complete with wheels and covers to protect the components in storage. "And the price point was cheaper," he said. "Less was definitely more in this situation."
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