Hosting up to 3,000 people on a given weekend, and worshipping with full band, singers, leaders and audio playback elements and broadcast feeds, the Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana, has adopted Lawo audio mixing and AoIP networking.
An upgrade to the audio system at the main worship centre uses separate mixing consoles for FOH and monitors, interconnected and able to share all I/O between them, with a 48-fader Lawo mc²56 console handling FOH and broadcast mixes, and a 40-fader mc²36 for monitors.
Both consoles can independently access and control all sources over an IP-network created by fibre connections to a Lawo Nova37 IP router. Several Lawo stageboxes are also connected to the router, including two Compact I/Os and a Dallis frame, as well as an A__digital8 located in the main audio rack for handling discreet AES digital signals. The Nova37 is a plug-and-play audio router serving as an IP ‘cloud’, allowing connected consoles immediate access to all sources with comprehensive user rights management.
The mc²56 is capable of a maximum of 888 fully configured DSP channels with 144 summing buses and 8,192 x 8,192 mono-channel matrix capacity. The console offers complete flexibility to route and assign any combination of input and output signals to any faders and includes Automix, built-in dynamics and signal processing along with tight integration and control of a Waves SoundGrid system for effects plug-ins, which can be assigned and controlled directly from the console surface. The mc²36 handles monitor mix duties and includes up to 192 DSP channels with its own internal 512 x 512 router and all the same features and functionality offered on the mc²56.
Lawo’s modular Dallis stagebox frame provides 72 inputs and 48 outputs for stage I/O and each compact I/O offers 32 mic/line inputs, 32 line outputs, eight AES3 I/O (stereo pairs) and eight GPIO. One is located on the drum riser and one is in the broadcast booth.
‘We were looking for a system that provided excellent sound quality and reliability and had the flexibility to expand and grow with us through the years as our requirements continue to evolve,’ says Granger Production Director, Tony Staires. ‘After a thorough evaluation of a number of different competitors including live demos, the decision was made to go with Lawo – based on sound quality, flexibility and expandability. Support was also big consideration for us, and Lawo has been great to work with in that regard.’
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