Updated: church install (part 2)
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:27 pmWhile Rick worked on terminating the few wall panels in the church and then the rack, I got to work with the rigging and mounting. Here's a nice before/after: on the left is one of the old delay speakers- craptacular Realistic boxes. On the right: one of six lovely EAW JF-50s, smooth, powerful, etc. They also vanish up in these dark corners just as well as the old ones. A bit of a pain, but worth the trouble.
Speaking of trouble: had to mount "Hot Spot" monitors way up on the walls on either side of the choir seating area behind the altar. Scary up there, but at least these boxes are very light. That moulding is all plaster- had no idea what would happen when I drilled into it. Thanks to 19th-century plaster techniques, it all worked out fine.
The mains: two Tannoy i9 line array boxes. I had to lag hunks of 2x6 on to the wood column first, because the brackets were too wide to fit. These look fantastic (nearly invisible in normal light), and they sound great.
On either side of the organ balcony rail there's a paddle antenna for receiving signal from the wireless mics; there's also a whip antenna for broadcasting a mix to the hearing-assist headsets. Amazingly, the first positions chosen worked perfectly. Signals are all rock-solid.
Another before/after: the old overhead mic rig (two choir mics actually wired together and suspended over the aisle by their own cables), and the new improved version (two much better mics hanging from vinyl-coated 1/8" aircraft cable). I modified a stereo-array holder so the whole shebang would self-level once the cable was pulled taught, hauling this rig up to a point about 40 feet up.Had I fixed it to the cable, if it twisted the rig would be all out of whack. Only had to lower them twice to get the angles set right...
Here's the old setup at the lectern, and the new. It was nerve-wracking drilling a big hole in that book-holder for the new shock-mount; but it held up just fine, and we didn't drop it putting it back (the "birdhouse" part actually threads on to a helix carved into the top of the stand).
next: last day onsite (control room, etc)
Speaking of trouble: had to mount "Hot Spot" monitors way up on the walls on either side of the choir seating area behind the altar. Scary up there, but at least these boxes are very light. That moulding is all plaster- had no idea what would happen when I drilled into it. Thanks to 19th-century plaster techniques, it all worked out fine.
The mains: two Tannoy i9 line array boxes. I had to lag hunks of 2x6 on to the wood column first, because the brackets were too wide to fit. These look fantastic (nearly invisible in normal light), and they sound great.
On either side of the organ balcony rail there's a paddle antenna for receiving signal from the wireless mics; there's also a whip antenna for broadcasting a mix to the hearing-assist headsets. Amazingly, the first positions chosen worked perfectly. Signals are all rock-solid.
Another before/after: the old overhead mic rig (two choir mics actually wired together and suspended over the aisle by their own cables), and the new improved version (two much better mics hanging from vinyl-coated 1/8" aircraft cable). I modified a stereo-array holder so the whole shebang would self-level once the cable was pulled taught, hauling this rig up to a point about 40 feet up.Had I fixed it to the cable, if it twisted the rig would be all out of whack. Only had to lower them twice to get the angles set right...
Here's the old setup at the lectern, and the new. It was nerve-wracking drilling a big hole in that book-holder for the new shock-mount; but it held up just fine, and we didn't drop it putting it back (the "birdhouse" part actually threads on to a helix carved into the top of the stand).
next: last day onsite (control room, etc)