Pro64 Digital Snake and Monitor Mixing at Second Baptist Church
Monitor Mixing | Digital Snakes
Overview
The audio upgrade at Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles includes a Pro64 digital snake and Pro16 monitoring. Details
Key Features
- Simplicity of installation, incorporating both Pro16 and Pro64 products along with a Yamaha console
- Ease of use for volunteer staff
- Cost-effectiveness of Cat-5 cabling is an installation labor cost savings to the client
Products Used
- Pro64 Series
- 2 6416m Mic Input Modules
- 2 6416Y2 A-Net Interface Cards
- 2 6416o Output Module
- 1 ASI A-Net Systems Interface
- Pro16 Series
- 5 A-16II Personal Mixers
- 1 A-16D Pro A-Net Distributor
Digital Snake Integrates With Yamaha Console
Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles (SBCLA) is known both for its unique history, including being one of the last places that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke, and for its radio broadcast to more than 20,000 listeners every Sunday. SBCLA remains an important stop for many political events.
Systems integrator Rick Boot of Los Angeles-based Audio Production and Design Services recently upgraded the audio system at SBCLA to a Pro64 Aviom digital snake. Boot chose the Pro64 system because he could easily integrate it with a Yamaha digital console and the Pro16 Personal Mixing system, because Pro64 delivers the “pristine” audio quality the church sought, and because Pro64 simplifies planned expansion to a broadcast console.
SBCLA’s system includes two 6416m Mic Input Modules at the platform, sending 32 channels to a Yamaha M7CL at in the balcony at FOH. The M7CL is outfitted with two 6416Y2 A-Net Interface Cards, which input the 32 channels into the console and return 32 channels to FOH for the amps and Personal Mixers.
Cat-5 Simplifies Future Expansion
At the platform there is a 6416o Output Module for stage returns and an ASI A-Net Systems Interface that converts Pro64 A-Net to Pro16 A-Net for the church’s Personal Mixers. An A-16D Pro A-Net Distributor that is connected to the ASI sends A-Net and DC power to the five Personal Mixers used on the platform.
While the church has not yet added a second console for its radio broadcasts, they plan to do so, and the ability to easily split to a second Yamaha console using Aviom’s 6416Y2 cards was one of the reasons that Boot recommended the Aviom system.
Systems Integrator
Audio Production and Design Services
Boot also values the time and cost savings of installing a system running on Cat-5. He says, “Less wire means less time which means less expense for the client. And the money that would have been used to pay for soldering and installation can be put towards more gear.”
The key to the system, however, is the combination of performance and simplicity. “The Aviom system is very straightforward,” says Boot. “We’re making it simple, and we’re still getting a very high quality.”
