MURFREESBORO, TN – World Outreach Church chose a Midas PRO6 console for its new 2,800-capacity main sanctuary. "The sound quality and navigation are unbeatable," said Derric West, the church's technical director.
West demoed several different consoles onsite while the new sanctuary was in its design phase, swapping test consoles in an existing sanctuary every other weekend, but keeping the same mics and PA.
"The console was the only variable," West said, "and it was any easy choice once we put the PRO6 in."
The church has Midas Legends already installed in two other sanctuaries. West noted that the PRO6 delivered the same sound quality as its analog predecessors, and added that the ease of use, flexibility and portability offered by the digital PRO6 has really impressed the church.
Although it has a full and diverse calendar of events, the engineers are more often weekend volunteers rather than full-time professionals. Regular services are likely to include around six vocals in addition to the pastor, choir and soloists, plus contemporary bands with drums, bass, guitars, keyboard and additional vocals.
West configures the PRO6 with 80 inputs to facilitate swapping bands and inputs with an internal patch. String and percussion sections are added for special occasions such as Christmas.
West appreciates being able to rehearse for the larger events, store the settings and build on the mix and scenes as he goes without disturbing the setups for weekend services.
For Easter, when the church moves temporarily to Middle Tennessee University's basketball arena and welcomes some 20,000 attendees, "we will just pack up our PRO6 and take it with us," West said. "We'll be able to store all the rehearsals settings and scenes in the weeks prior to Easter, saving hours of set up and sound check once we are set up at the arena."
While West added that the PRO6's capacity for scene storage and recall was "a real selling point for us," he also credited the console for the VCA and POP(ulation) groups, and also "the comps, gates, verb and delay. The internal processing sounds great, plus I love the sound and responsiveness of the channel EQs."
Along with its own productions, the church hosts a number of concerts by visiting Christian artists throughout the year. "They use our PRO6 if they're not already on tour with their own console," said West, "and they've all been very happy with it."
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