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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles wraps up his chat with Jim Hoyle of Audio & Light in Greensboro, N.C., on the sound system upgrade at Elon University’s Whitley Auditorium. Hoyle provides more details on the Whitley Auditorium sound system including the mixer, wireless microphones, and the audio processor. He discusses the scheduling of the installation around the venue’s crowded event lineup, and outlines the final testing and tweaking of the whole system and how it performed in its first real event.

Links of interest:

• The Soundcraft FX16 mixing console used in Whitley Auditorium
• The D.A.S. Audio DSP 2060A digital audio processor the controls the system
• Shure SLX wireless microphones that are used for events in Whitley Auditorium
• SMAART realtime sound system measurement, analysis, and optimization software

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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles completes his discussion with John Williams of Entertainment Arts in Orlando, Florida about the total sound system upgrade done for the First Baptist Church of Altamonte Springs. John expands on the capabilities of the Brooklyn II Dante protocol card from Audinate when it is added to the Allen & Heath iLive mixing system. He also discusses the Sennheiser wireless in-ear monitoring system used by performers and band members at the church.

Links of interest:

• Entertainment Arts, AV design-build firm specializing in house of worship support
• Audinate’s Virtual Soundcard software for Mac and PC
• Sennheiser 300 Series wireless in-ear monitoring systems used by performers
• Westone UM-2 dual driver in-ear monitor system

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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with Jim Hoyle of Audio & Light in Greensboro, N.C., on the sound system upgrade at Elon University’s Whitley Auditorium. The venue was designed in the 1920’s as an acoustical environment for its Casavant pipe organ, but over the years it has come to be used for a wide variety of events. Hoyle recounts how Audio & Light installed a sound system centered on the DAS Audio Variant series speaker array and how the acoustic environment was initially analyzed.

Links of interest:

• Audio & Light rental, installation and event production company
• The D.A.S. Audio Variant 25A powered speakers used in the central array
• EASE acoustic analysis software from Renkus-Heinz
• The D.A.S. Audio Variant 18A subwoofer installed in Whitley Auditorium

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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with John Williams of Entertainment Arts in Orlando, Fla., about the total sound system upgrade done for the First Baptist Church of Altamonte Springs. The installation included a new Allen & Heath iLive T-112 mixer and the Mixpad application for iPad. Williams details the strategy the church followed in equipping all of the band members with iPads to allow them to do their own stereo monitor mixes and he discusses the addition of the mixer’s Brooklyn II Dante card from Audinate.

Links of interest:

• Entertainment Arts, AV design-build firm specializing in house of worship support
• The iLive T-112 mixer used for FOH at the First Baptist Church of Altamonte Springs
• The Dante Brooklyn II option card for the iLive MixRack
• The MixPad app for iPad control of the iLive digital mixing system