JOHNS CREEK, GA – The tech department at Perimeter Church manages nine auditoriums, an average of six weekend services and more than 2,300 events each year with an assist in reducing stage noise and adapting to the different needs across its 95-acre campus from Aviom Pro16 Personal Mixers.
"We have more than 50 Aviom A-16II Personal Mixers on the campus," said Steve Simmons, the church's director of technical ministries. "We just added 16 Aviom A16IIs and an A-16CS Control Surface to our new Cecil B. Day Chapel and are also adding even more over the next month to our children's theater."
While Aviom was initially selected by Perimeter Church to help reduce stage noise and improve sound quality in the front of house, the residual benefits have helped the staff of primarily volunteers, from mix engineers to the musicians and vocalists.
"We eliminated the need for a monitor engineer and simplified the role of our front of house mix engineer," said Simmons. "As for the members of the bands, who use click tracks, they love having the ability to store and recall up to 16 mixes for the different service elements. Aviom personal mixers allow us to almost immediately begin rehearsal thanks to the fact that we do not need monitor wedge mixes."
At Perimeter Church, most rooms feature different bands each week, and all of them use different instrumentation. On its growing campus, Aviom helps to minimize stage clutter from monitor wedges and integrates well with a variety of gear.
"Two of our venues use Innovason sound consoles with a DioAV A-Net Card while the other rooms have the Aviom systems interfaced with either Allen & Heath or APB-DynaSonics consoles," said Simmons.
The children's theater, which holds two KidsQuest worship services each week for children in grades one through five, will be adding new Aviom equipment as part of an overall theater renovation, Simmons noted. An Aviom A-16D Pro A-Net Distributor, an AN-16/i Input Module, and six A-16II Personal Mixers will help the staff support music, sketches, puppet presentations and video.
"We selected Aviom thanks to its ease-of-use, sound quality and strong reliability. In one case, however, teaming up with Aviom even allowed us to repurpose an $80,000 sound board by shutting down the monitor position," Simmons said.
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