Acoustic Arrangements were awarded the contract to design and install a fully integrated AV system at Queens Road Baptist Church's new building in Broadstairs. The system included a large sound system, video system and lighting rig for the main hall as well as separate systems in smaller halls along with a distributed sound & video throughout the building.
These systems make it possible for the church to be able to have a facility that would meet the current and future needs of the church whilst allowing the facility to become a venue that could be used for many different Christian and secular events.
The AV team, musicians and church members have learnt quickly how to handle the technology and provides a new dimension to the church’s worship and preaching as well as outside hires making full use of the systems for conferences and concerts.
Brian Curtis, who managed this side of the project, says...
“...the solutions provided by Acoustic Arrangements enabled us to do more than we thought possible with the budgets we had available - it's the icing on the cake of our new building.”
Audio System
The audio system comprises of the following:-
24 channel Allen & Heath mixing system with routing to main speakers, internal TV system and overflow hall. Recording is direct to PC and MP3 solid state recorder. The Electrovoice speaker system has two centre flown 12”+ 1” speakers to cover the main seating area with two 15” sub bass speakers giving in total about 2.5KW of sound. Stage monitor speakers were also provided. Other items include dbx Driverack speaker management system, induction loop and multi-channel radio microphone system.
Video System
The Video system comprises of the following:-
Inputs derived from dual VGA tower PC, stage end laptop PC, DVD, two fully remote pan, tilt, zoom cameras and roving cameras. Any input can be routed to the projectors using a Kramer VP728 presentation switcher scaler, the video inputs are mixed through an Edirol V4. There are two flown 5000 lumen projectors with 8' 16:9 permframe screens with other feeds going to the internal CAT5 distribution system, stage monitors and overflow hall. There are TV monitors installed in the café and reception which can view waht's happening in the main hall, show off air TV or signage information.
Lighting System
The Lighting system comprises of the following:-
12 channel lighting bar with DMX control.