CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY — Ryan Jackson of JCA Media LLC, who designed and installed the replacement sound system for Campbellsville Baptist Church, brought in a Metrix system from Adamson Systems Engineering. The two-array setup could be fine-tuned to cover both the 900-capacity church’s main sanctuary seating and balcony areas. The speakers are powered by Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q amplifiers, and an Allen & Heath iLive digital system, Audio Technica 5000 Series wireless receiver and DPA instrument mics round out the audio upgrade.
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Campbellsville Baptist Church is located in a town by the same name. The town’s main street is lined with century old brick, stone, and iron buildings with Italianate architecture facades, the church also fits this classic description. The town of less than 10,000 residents also features a private university and is home to Campbellsville Industries, the oldest and largest steeple and tower manufacturer in the United States. CI has over 15,000 installations located throughout the United States and Canada, and claims the record for the world’s largest prefabricated church steeple at 229 feet high, which can be found at the First Baptist Church in Huntsville, AL.
Campbellsville Baptist seats 900 worshippers in a recently remodeled traditional two-floor setting, one being a small balcony. Their previous system featured a center cluster which provided uneven coverage, no low frequencies to speak of, static and odd popping sounds. The decision to use Adamson came from a few different directions. The relationship with the dealer and their suggestions influenced the decision, as well as the fact that the customer had heard Adamson in other rooms and passed on the message that “nothing else comes close.” An Adamson Metrix system was brought in for a simple demo in the room, and without even fine-tuning the system, the customer was still completely blown away by the quality and coverage of the boxes.
The initial parameters for the new system’s placement were based purely on ideal room positioning and aesthetics. The Adamson system installed was painted in a custom white color down to the rigging hardware. As the venue is mostly used for traditional worship, the goal was to have complete and clear coverage of the entire room so that there was not a bad seat in the house: “We had originally looked at front fills, but after tuning the arrays we realized the room was completely covered with terrific sound with no additions.” explains Ryan Jackson of JCA Media LLC, a consulting company, who was in charge of the sound design and installation.
The suitable system design consisted of 2 arrays of 8 Metric 5 degree enclosures with 2 Metrix W 15 degree front fills hung underneath, with a Metrix double 15” sub flown at the top of each array. The balcony was a bit of a challenge though. “We needed to get energy up in the room due to the balcony being the location of the sound engineer, we had a 5’ wall to keep energy off of on the front of the balcony, and we had to cover 20’ underneath the balcony to the back wall. This challenge was conquered by fine tuning the arrays,” adds Jackson.
Additional speakers used with the install were 1 fulcrum subwoofers on the ground as well as Adamson Point 8 boxes for Choir Monitoring. All Adamson speakers were powered and processed by Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q’s. Other upgrades included Allen and Heath iLive digital system, Audio Technica 5000 Series wireless receiver, and DPA Instrument Microphones. In addition to the audio components, a brand new lighting redesign using ETC and Martin Lighting was implemented, as well as a complete remodel of the venue’s broadcast system.
Jackson concludes that he is very satisfied with the end result and that the entire key staff felt that the installation far exceeded their expectations. The Campbellsville technical team includes Worship Leader David Johnson, and Sound Engineers Robert Bender and Tyler Young.
