Digital Solutions

Digital systems are dramatically changing the installed audio landscape. The scales have tipped in the cost/ benefit ratio in favor of deploying digital solutions as compared to their analogue predecessors. These two system upgrades that CareySound has just completed at Calvary Christian Center and Providence Baptist Church provide a two great examples of the advantages of digital workflows.


At Calvary Christian Center a new Roland RSS V-Mix System replaced their aging A&H GL3 mixing desk along with their old wired analogue snake. The new system boasts:

• Dramatically improved sound
• Up to 48 channels of input control of up to 320 inputs
• 24 ch of compression
• 24 ch of gates
• 4 stereo effects engines
• 16 auxiliary mixes
• 12 1/3 octave 31 band graphic EQs or 12 8 band parametric EQs
• Remote digital snake system
• User memory setting of all parameters
• Greatly simplified control interface

CareySound’s V-Mix instructor John Carey trains Calvary’s soundmen.

Over at Providence Baptist A new Automix Matrix 780 system controller from Symetrix mounted in their equipment rack located in an office with an ARC-2 adaptive remote control mounted at the pulpit for complete system control with a menu-driven remote. System highlights include:

• Customizable programing
• 12 input channels and 8 outputs
• Matrix mixing
• Feedback elimination
• Equalization and filtering
• Limiting
• Delay
• Easy control from a menu-driven remote located conveniently at the pulpit
• Great audio and control at a small price point

In the rack.

At the Pulpit control.

Old Inkel 12ch rack-mount mixer with outboard 1/3 EQ is replaced with a Symetrix Matrix 780 mixer with processing.

Tags: Roland RSS V-Mix, Symetrix