The RSS V-System by Roland takes center stage in yet another new house of worship in Wilson Mills, NC. Utilizing the Roland REAC digital network backbone running on inexpensive and flexible twisted-pair Cat 5e cabling the Wilson Mills Baptist Church’s V-Mix System takes a complete digital end-to-end system approach to audio distribution and control. It solves many of the problems that plague other digital audio solutions and analogue audio installations and allows for an easily expandable system.

Building the new audio system around the Roland RSS, systems integrator CareySound was able to contain costs and create an easy to use experience for the church that is high in features, including the built in ability to record the services, and low in maintenance. Call CareySound today to show you how this new system can work for you.

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It’s been a productive month for our production department and the fulfillment of a dream of mine.

I love being a SoundMan. It’s the reason I went into business and it is my passion and, if I might be excused for a moment of self-effacement, I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Even after 40 years of being a SoundMan I still find it exciting. CareySound is the embodiment of that passion for audio excellence, never being satisfied with the status quo of ‘state of the art’, always searching for the perfect wave. That’s where issues arise. In this age of convergence it’s not enough to focus one one specialty. To stay in business you are increasingly expected to provide it all, hence our growth into staging, backline, lighting, video, recording and, as I later declared “we provide everything but the band,” booking agent. As a matter of fact I was the creator of One Call - Simple. And it was a success, but it did not grow out a sudden interest in lighting or staging for instance. It was born out of necessity.

I was being asked to provide these services and I could not find any willing partners to provide the requested services so it was left to me to add them to our repertoire. Now, everybody is doing everything and the quality of service is going down the tubes. ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’ comes to mind and not in the sense of true polymaths like Leonardo da Vince, Isaac Newton or Thomas Jefferson. More like “Hi, I’m Larry and this is my brother Darrel and this is my other brother Darrel” and their ‘Anything for a Buck’ business as portrayed on the 80’s sitcom Newhart . Suddenly, expertise and experience was taking a back seat to ‘anything for a buck.’ This has gone to the extreme where I found a picture yesterday of my staging specialist operating a video camera on a competitors web site proclaiming him to be a video specialist. He is a really great person and a handy guy willing to tackle whatever needs to be done, but he is not a video professional, he was just available. There is a solution, this is where my dream comes in.

As I announced last week in my post Old Friends - New Partners that a great friend and colleague of mine, Jim Reese and his company Joe Mamas Mobile Staging, is the latest specialist to partner with CareySound joining Sterling AV (A/V specialist), Road King (backline specialist), Here 2 Hear (recording specialist), SRO Productions (artist booking specialist) and GoodBuyGuys.com (expendables specialists). All of these respected, like minded businesses working together as a team to bring you the best possible professionals to provide you the best possible experience not one company trying to everything to everybody. So when you call CareySound or any my friends you get an entire team of professional specialists working their hardest for you. God has blessed me with a lot of great friends and any friend of CareySound is a friend of yours.

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Digital snakes and mixers are finding their way into churches as a solution to the unique challenges churches face as they double as performance venues. Bennett Liles of Sound&Video Contracting explores this trend with John Broadhead, director of technology for Roland Systems Group, examining the need filled by the company’s new V-Mixing system.

One of the best parts of having worked in the industry for over 30 years is all of the great people we have met and worked with. One of those people is Jim Reese former owner and founder of Audio & Light Rentals and current owner of Joe Mama’s a mobile staging company with offices here in Greensboro and Marko Island, FL.


CareySound has built its reputation by focusing on a no compromise, best in performance, service and value business model. Just as we carefully choose the products and manufactures we represent, we take the same care in the choice of industry colleagues we partner with. They share the same affinity for superior quality service and apply the same exacting professionalism that we do. CareySound is pleased to announce that jim Reese and Joe Mama’s Mobile Staging has joined us as one of our elite preferred production partners.


So what does that mean to me?
As our exclusive new staging partner you can expect the same great service and value on mobile stages that you have come to expect from CareySound. Whether you contact Jim directly our have us take care of all the arrangements, you can expect nothing but the best. Welcome aboard Jim.