Founded in 2017, the Korean-American Joong Ang Church in Las Vegas has seen a steady growth in its congregation over the years, and recently left its existing premises to move to a new larger chapel building on Peace Way, just ten minutes away from the city’s main strip. With a substantial stage in place, the venue’s main space seats approximately 600 and hosts a variety of worship including spoken sermons, solo singers, bands and complete musical shows. When the Church moved to the new venue, its sound system was outdated and unreliable. Pastor Im In-Cheol and his team decided to install a brand new audio system and engaged Troy Choi of Solid Sound Solutions to deliver the solution.
As a member of the strong and close-knit Korean Church community, Troy is a trusted and expert audio practitioner in both the installation and live sound sectors. As well as fixed installations into houses of worship, concert halls and conference venues, Troy has worked with stadium bands such as Toto, as well as a wide range of touring productions, and his services are always in great demand. Solid Sound Solution’s ever-growing portfolio of successful church installations attests to why he is a go-to figure for all matters audio. With an abundance of different choices on the market, the Church trusted Troy to deliver a system tailored to fit its exact sonic and budgetary requirements.
Troy recommended a system comprising FBT Mitus line array loudspeakers powered by MC² amplification. Troy designed the system and chose the amplifiers carefully as he explains:
“I was looking for an excellent amplifier with great DSP to level up the loudspeakers. As sound guys, we know how much a good amp is necessary to obtain the best results from speakers. It can change mid-class speakers into first-class speakers and first-class into low-class!
“I’ve long been a fan of the XTA processor and have been familiar with MC² amps for a long time, having used them with Funktion One speakers before the DSP version, so I already knew they were great. This was the first time I’d used the MC² Delta Series with its XTA DSP and Globcon software as well. As soon as I connected the amps to the loudspeakers and played music without any tuning, I smiled. The FBT Mitus is a good small box as a self-powered/DSP version in its own right, but this was another sound altogether. I’ve done plenty of system design and front of house mixing, so I knew this was special from the start. It really is very impressive – MC²’s amplification with XTA DSP is super powerful, and to be honest I think the price is reasonable for the strengths it brings.”
News of the smooth, powerful sound that now supports events at Joong Ang church has travelled fast according to Troy:
“The Korean-American church community in Las Vegas are saying that this is now the best sounding church in town! I attended the first service with the new system and it sounded great – no wonder the client is 200% happy.”
