The First Baptist Church of Nashville has been serving the downtown area for more than 200 years. Having worshiped in the current building for over 50 years, the leadership believed it was necessary to update the audio visual components of their worship service. The...
AVL Projects
Brentwood Baptist Church Modernizes its Sanctuary
Brentwood Baptist Church was officially constituted on Easter Sunday of 1969 in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee. In the past half century, it’s grown to nine campuses around the region and consistently averaged over 5,000 worshipers in weekly on-campus...
Journey Church Takes Communications Infrastructure to the Next Level
When Diversified, a leading global technology solutions provider, was given the task of upgrading the existing AV system at Journey Church in Lake Worth, Florida, the company was looking to bring innovative communications and enhanced production capabilities while...
Associated Beth Rivkah Schools Elevates Events Experience with Modern Audiovisual Transformation
Associated Beth Rivkah Schools recently transformed its lunchroom into a modern multipurpose venue, by installing a a state-of-the-art audiovisual system. The upgraded facility now caters to various functions within the school, serving as a flexible space for...
Eden Project Creates an Immersive Christmas Trail
For many, the Christmas season traditionally brings with it magical and immersive eco-trails, with lighting and imaginative soundtracks replacing the more natural effects. In Cornwall, England, the best among these is Eden Project’s Music & Lights after dark...
Lexington Baptist Church Uses Chauvet to Help Bring “The Christmas Experience”
A very accomplished painter when she isn’t busy as a LD, Denise Simpson says that she often likes to play with colors to do things a little differently when designing shows. This was beautifully evident this December when she lit “The Christmas Experience,” a...
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces a Colorful Update to its 2024 Product Line
Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. has released its first update for the Vectorworks 2024 product line, unveiling a new partnership with NCS Colour, the leading provider of color communication solutions and delivering...
Keeping It Simple: Seven Key Elements In Properly Training An A/V Team
Lessons learned over the years about how to train, deploy, and develop a functioning crew, regardless of their experience.
Producing the Newsboys
It's hard not to have heard of the Newsboys, The Newsboys are a Christian rock band founded in 1985 in Queensland, Australia, by Peter Furler and George Perdikis. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, the band has released 17 studio albums, six of which have been...
New Church Stage Audio, Visual and Lighting Planning
Just as each congregation is unique, each church building specifically reflects the people it houses. The audio/visual technology your church is considering should reflect your church’s unique culture. Your church might have just moved to a new site, or your church...
Europalco Takes Center Stage in Helping Celebrate Pope Francis’ World Youth Day 2023
EUROPALCO, the largest provider of solutions for events and shows in Southern Europe, assumed a pivotal role in managing audiovisual signal distribution across all PA systems and LedWall towers for World Youth Day 2023, hosted in Lisbon, Portugal. Since its inception...
CableEZ Introduces 2 Gang Model: The Ultimate Cable Management Solution
CableEZ, a leader in cable management solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking 2 Gang Model that delivers a versatile, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing solution for cable organization. This new addition to CableEZ's product lineup is...
Avoiding Tech Disasters in a New Construction or Remodel
It’s easy to get excited about the new mixing console or video wall. But it’s the smaller details that can make or break how well your production systems support the ministry long term.
Q-SYS Opens Experience Center in Austin, Texas
Q-SYS, a division of QSC LLC, is thrilled to announce the grand opening of the Q-SYS Experience Center in Austin, Texas. This state-of-the-art facility offers customers an immersive, curated experience through the Q-SYS Platform and its...
St. John Vianney Church Improves Intelligibility with ICLive X Loudspeakers
In the suburbs of Detroit lies Shelby Township, home to St. John Vianney Catholic Church. The quiet and unassuming church hosts a vast nave, with seating for more than 1200 people. The rectangular nave features brick-lined walls and soaring slanted ceilings that...
Eagle Brook Church Soars After Audio Upgrade
Based in the north Minneapolis suburb of Centerville, Eagle Brook Church is a continuously-expanding Baptist megachurch whose mission is to reach people for Christ. Hosting a weekly audience averaging 20,000, plus another 25,000 online, the church places high...
Christ Community Church Elevates Worship Experience with Elation Fuze Lighting
One of five Christ Community campuses in the greater Chicago area, Christ Community’s St. Charles/South Elgin location recently received a key lighting and house lighting upgrade of Elation Professional Fuze Profile™ and Fuze Pendant™ fixtures. The new lighting system...
Your Church AVL Equipment, How Much is too Much?
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should", Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park. Just before Christmas of 2022, a video of a tech rehearsal at a large church circulated throughout the church AVL...
DNR Laboratories Creates Flawless RF System at Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford
The wireless microphone system at Cathedral of St. Joseph, the seat of the Archdiocese of Hartford in Hartford, CT, was continuously plagued by dropouts and RF interference, detracting from solemnity that the structure and its mission called for. “The Archbishop...
Indonesian Church Uses Blackmagic Design Cameras and Switchers
Blackmagic Design announced that Indonesia’s GBI Keluarga Allah Church is using a variety of Blackmagic Design digital film cameras and ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K live production switcher for AV and live streaming its services. GBI Keluarga Allah...
Defining Your Tech Team
Welcome back everyone, this month’s email question comes from Mark C. in Arizona, who asks, ” I recently became the leader of my tech team and I want to know how to make everyone more involved and more proactive”. Well Mark is not alone, this is a question I...