CROSSPOINT Church features Sound by Mackie
Following is a dispatch from our Running-Man-About-Town (and brand VP), John Boudreau.
Crosspoint Church is a healthy and growing Presbyterian community led by senior pastor, Mike Kelly. The church boasts more than 60 years of history in the greater Seattle area, dating all the way back to a Sunday School and Adult Bible Class in 1939. Not long ago, I came across them in Seattle’s historic neighborhood of Ballard, well known for its Norwegian heritage…and bad drivers. Crosspoint was that day in the process of having their very last service in this temporary location. (They have since moved in a beautiful new permanent home and continue to grow with another outreach program in the neighboring suburb of Lynnwood. You can check them out here: http://www.greenlakepc.org/)
As you can see from the photos, this is a very engaging contemporary service that requires quality sound reinforcement.
In addition to four standard microphone inputs, they have 16 music inputs for their very talented musicians. Thankfully for us at Mackie, Tom Wilson, A/V coordinator, is an avid Mackie fan and has chosen to use splayed SRM450s for left/right mains and SRM350 for monitors, plus a really pro set-up featuring a TT24 digital live mixing console and Aviom personal monitoring system.
The TT24 is housed in a custom built rolling cart with a locking cover.
The cart also houses a PC that runs the TT control application and does multi-track recording via the on-board optical outputs of the console. This connects to a high quality RME Hammerfall PCI card for multi-track recording. The recording is later mixed down and available to the community. Nice!
The members are quite creative—in fact, this cart was designed by Jay Liati, a talented craftsman, who built a total of three carts. The remaining carts are used for their Aviom monitoring system and general storage purposes.
“The TT24 has proven to be extremely easy to learn for our volunteer engineers and has provided excellent sound quality,” said Wilson.
Arthur Laramy, Danny Walter and Adam Wilson agreed. These fellas were happily coordinating the day’s events when I visited.
Arthur added, “The real test for the console was environmental, during our temporary location in Ballard, the console has regularly sat in a locked truck for most of the week, experiencing all of the temperature changes of the Seattle area.”
Tom has worked with Susan Morgan of Morgan Sound on system designs for over 10 years. Morgan Sound is providing a second TT24 for Crosspoint’s new outreach program as well. Morgan Sound rocks!
Thanks so much to all of you at Crosspoint and good luck to you on what looks to be a very exciting year for your community!
