The equipment for the sound department ocasionally will need updating. For the past few years I have been working towards replacing all the old equipment and adding new equipment to keep up with the times as well as making sure we don’t have an old peice of equipment quit durring service.
Currently there are 8 mic cables running through a conduit to connect mics from the stage, floor, and back wall, to the soundroom. There used to be a Biamp 8 channel virtical rackmount mixer right where the mic cables stop in the soundroom, but we sold that mizer and replaced it with a 14 channel tabletop Peavey mixer. Only 2 of the 8 cables were plugged into the new mixer. We used 6 wireless mics as well. For the balcony extention project, I ran 2 mic cables as extentions for the pulpit and the baptistry mics to the mixer now on the desk on the balcony. We have a TV sitting on the front pew and a wireless video transmitter sending the computer video to it. Also we have a presentation remote for the computer that is just barely in range of the reciever 100 ft away. All this needs updating more.
This next project, we will be tearing out the 8 mic cables going through the conduit and running an 8 channel snake cable, a coaxial cable for video to the TV, and Cat 5 cable. The run is about 125-150 feet long. The coax cable will replace the wireless transmitter for a cleaner and mored steady video signal. For the cat 5 cable, we plan on getting a USB to Cat5 converter and attaching that to both ends of the cable so we can have the remote reciever less than 10 feet from the remote and the signal will run through the cable to the computer 100 feet away. And finally the 8 channel snake cable will connect the pulpit mic, the baptistry mic, and 6 other mic ports on the front pew. The reason for this is so we can have 4 (wired) mics and 2 monitors or 6 (wired) mics in the front for acapella singing groups. The other end of the snake cable will be connected to a new mixer on the balcony desk.
We plan on getting a Mackie CFX20 MKII mixer. This will compliment our 6 wireless mics, 8 wired mics, 2 future chorus mics, DVD and Computer audio into the stereo channels and have output to mains and 4 aux sends (Foyer/Hallway, Hearing Aid Recievers, and 2 for a future video system.
Mackie CFX20 MKII
Samson CM12C Hanging Choir Mic
