2004 AV Offerings:
Speakers, Lights, Amps, Mixers, Recording Gear and More — All Recommended Especially for Worship Spaces

On a Budget? You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Quality Sound

Designed for small to medium-sized churches, the brand-new Crest Performance CPT Series loudspeakers offer crisp highs and smooth mid-range performance for excellent speaking and performance sound reproduction. The smooth mid-range offered by CPT loudspeakers enables better intelligibility, allowing your congregation to hear every sonic nuance as intended from the audio source being amplified. This is particularly imperative for loudspeakers used in voice reproduction, as the mid-range vocal region is the area that generates the most compliments and complaints from the people in the pews.

CPT loudspeakers include three-point flying hardware on the top and bottom for inverted flying, as well as input plate, two-position barrier strips, four-pin Neutrik connectors, 90- by 40-degree horns, and 1.5-inch titanium compression drivers.

These speakers retails for $375 to $515 and feature peak power handling from 150 watts to 1,000 watts. Program power handling ranges between 150 watts and 500 watts. For details on this soon-to-be released series, call the experts at Crest Audio at 201.909.8700.

Professional Quality at an Affordable Price

The DMX-R100 digital audio mixer from Sony lets you invest in a fully professional digital mixer specifically designed for high-quality stereo and surround sound production. The experts at Sony made the DMX-R1000 flexible and easy to use and packed it with extensive features. Then, they priced it competitively.

DMX-R100 is a compact, 48-channel mixer with 25 motorized faders, a sophisticated control panel with touch-screen control, a fully integrated package of automation, a digital routing matrix and machine control. For advanced operation, this mixer’s control surface was derived from the world-renowned Sony OXF-R3 console and shares the same philosophy of eliminating operational barriers so that its use is both fast and intuitive.

DMX-R100’s ergonomically-friendly control panel devotes a considerable amount of space to individual controls for fast, accurate adjustment, and they’re laid out in a logical manner that reflects the way they’re used.

The DMX-R1000 retails for $18,400.

Log on to www.sony.com/professional to locate a reseller or to request more information.

Brand-New and Buyer-, User-Friendly

Making its market debut in January, the RA-122 rack-mounted architectural dimmer from Lightronics features 12 channels, each rated at 2,400 watts maximum, and stores up to 64 scenes in memory. The RA-122 also features relay mode for each channel and is soft-patchable. Control signals include DMX-512, smart remote stations and simple remotes (momentary contact closure).

Flexible, powerful and affordable, the RA-122 is easy to install and use, letting you create aesthetic and functionally diverse visual environments in any space.

RA-122 weighs 45 pounds, measures 19 inches by 18 inches by 3.5 inches, and retails for about $3,100. For additional details, call 757.486.3588.

Affordable Digital Recording with Plug-In Support

The VS-2000CD Digital Studio Workstation comes highly recommended by the experts at Roland, who cite it as a quality professional recording solution at a great price. They say the VS-2000CD sets a new standard for affordable digital recording with its 20 tracks, eight XLR inputs and support for third-party plug-ins using the optional VS8F-3 — a next-generation V-Studio giving you the power to create as never before. Add the optional VS20- VGA with Version 2.0 software, and you can run your sessions with mouse and monitor for maximum control. A 40-gigabyte hard drive, CD-RW drive and USB 2.0 port come standard, making the VS-2000CD an incredible value at $2,400 MSRP.

To download interactive demos and locate a dealer near you, or for other details, log on to www.rolandus.com.

Smart and Good-Looking: The Perfect Combo

The experts at Martin Professional say their MAC 250 profile moving-head spotlight — a compact version of the popular MAC 500 — was designed to be smart and beautiful. Its elegant, contemporary design successfully combines high light output (3,180 lumens) with small lamp size and offers advanced pattern illumination capabilities for stunning mid-air effects.

A motorized color wheel houses 12 dichroic color filters and offers split-color possibilities, and a motorized pattern wheel houses eight easily replaceable metal and glass gobos and rotates bi-directionally at various speeds.

Dedicated anchoring points, a safety wire attachment point, quarter-turn fastening system and mid-pan-range locator make for trouble-free rigging. A 250-watt lamp provides 2,000 hours of lamp life.

Special leasing programs are available for churches, with a nearly 100-percent approval rating. Complete a simple one-page application to apply for up to $100,000 with a 60-month term maximum. Call 800.404.9820 for details.

At Home Anywhere

With more than 30 years experience in the theatrical lighting industry, Applied Electronics is a leader in innovation and custom solutions for your stage and theatrical dimming requirements.

The DP12/2400 permanent installation dimmer is the embodiment of this expertise, available for control of 12 to 96 channels and offering 2.4 kilowatts of dimming power per channel. This unit is made from 16-gauge steel and houses 12 dimmer channels, which is expandable by up to seven additional 12- channel “slave” units.

The Applied Architectural dimmer is versatile and can be configured for any application. Features include fully magnetic circuit breakers, front-panel LCD display, soft patching, manual override, dimmer/switch selection for each channel, pre-heat selection, and DMX control or input from an optional wall plate system. To download spec sheets and technical manuals, or for other details, visit www.appliednn.com. For buying information, call 800.883.0008.

For Sound That’s Both Portable and Powerful

Even churches on the go can reach crowds of up to 2,000 with the portable Liberty sound system’s 117 decibels of clear sound. Liberty features heavyduty lead-acid batteries and a built-in charger, and it runs 10 or more hours on one charge. Liberty also can be daisy chained to powered Liberty speakers for expanded coverage.

Other features include 16-channel UHF wireless diversity, two universal mic jacks, up to two wireless receivers, speech projection mode for crystal-clear voice projection, and an improved CD player with blue back-lit and bar-graph level displays.

Choose from accessories such as an unpowered companion speaker, admiral lectern, heavy-duty speaker stand, storage cover, custom traveling hard case and 50- foot speaker cable. Numerous packages are available to meet your needs and budget, ranging from $2,300 to $2,800. For more information, call 800.262.4671 or log on to www.anchoraudio.com.

An Economic Solution for Audio Distribution

As the designers of Aviom distributed audio networks point out, current solutions for audio distribution have limited flexibility. And, feeding the same signals to multiple destinations is complex and costly.

With one Aviom AN-Series distributed audio network, however, as many as 64 channels of high-resolution audio can be fed to an unlimited number of destinations for mixing and/or recording purposes — all with one easy-to-install Cat-5 cable between devices using Aviom’s proprietary A-Net data transmission protocol.

The AN-Series was created to make designing, installing, interfacing and using a complex audio network simple. In fact, Aviom experts say the word “extensible” — the ability to extend in length and width — is the best description for the way their distributed audio network functions.

Additionally, this system is fully compatible with Aviom’s Personal Monitor Mixing System, which reps say has been very popular for church installations. Log on to www.aviom.com to find a dealer or sales rep.

No Need to Worry — These Speakers Will Blend Right In

Designed for function, subtlety and affordability, Peavey Electronics Corp.’s SSE loudspeaker enclosures are part of the company’s brand-new Sanctuary Series line of innovative audio products dedicated to making professional-quality audio easy and affordable for houses of worship.

SSE enclosures were designed with a keen eye to preserving the subtle aesthetics of your sanctuary with their available white, black and unfinished, stainable wood surfaces to match any décor.

The SSE series also features Versamount inserts, making them mountable and flyable from virtually any location in your sanctuary. Plus, these two-way sound reinforcement enclosures include high power ratings and protection features such as Sound Guard IV, as well as high-quality Peavey components and construction and two-position terminal strip inputs.

SSE Series loudspeakers retail for $320 to $500. For more information on Peavey’s leasing programs, or to sign up for your free copy of Celestial Sound: The Peavey Guide to Better Church Audio, log on to www.sanctuary-series.com

Evolution Series Mics Up the Ante

When Sennheiser introduced its Evolution Series microphones and accessories a few years ago, it heralded a new era in wireless technology. With the advent of the Evolution series, even the most budget-conscious churches were offered the ability to bring professional grade wireless technology into their worship centers. Now, with an eye to the future, Sennheiser has introduced the Evolution wireless Generation 2.

Available from All Pro Sound, the G2 series once again pushes the limits of performance with unsurpassed audio fidelity, ruggedness and ease of use. Completely redesigned from the inside out, Evolution G2 is packed with features, including smaller body packs, larger backlit LCD displays, patented AutoScan function on all receivers, and an intuitive interface. Additionally, these new systems now use AA batteries and feature battery status indicators on the transmitter and receivers.

As a master distributor for Sennheiser products, All Pro Sound offers the EW100G2 series, the EW300G2 series and the more advanced EW500G2 series. Both models are available in either lavalier or handheld. These rugged, all-metal construction units are rack mountable and now feature XLR jacks for easy connections. The EW500G2 units feature a unique two-color backlit LCD display that changes from green to red, indicating various performance options such as mute, peak signal and low battery.

Given the success of the original Evolution series, All Pro Sound’s Director of Sales and Distribution Creighton Jordan says he believes the new Generation 2 will make an even bigger impact in the church market. “With the new features and overall improvement, Sennheiser has taken a proven winner to new heights of achievement,” he says.

All Pro Sound designs and installs audio, video and lighting systems for churches across the country. Call 800.925.5776 for a free consultation to answer your technology-related questions.

Small Stature, Superior Sound

Audio-Technica’s latest addition to its expanding line of lavalier microphones — the AT898 subminiature cardioid condenser mic — was designed for highquality, low-profile operation. The AT898 features maximum intelligibility and clean, accurate reproduction for worship environments and is a mere 5 millimeters in diameter, making it ideal for applications that require minimum visibility.

The AT898 operates on battery or phantom power and includes a complete accessory kit, plus convenient carrying case. Six wired, wireless and unterminated styles are available for use with Audio-Technica and other popular wireless systems, ranging from $179 to $299. Call 330.686.2600 or log on to www.audio-technica.com for more details.