![]() “The monitor desk runs over 50 outputs and we’re running close to 200 inputs. ![]() Smith cites the configurability and high I/O counts the Q7s afforded the church: “We have a big service, a full choir and orchestra, and lots of inputs, so we needed a big input count, and with auxes and submixes we’re pushing 48 outputs,” he says. So it just made sense to stay with DiGiCo.” ![]() Plus, my boss, Bryan Bailey, came out of First Baptist Dallas and they were all DiGiCo over there. “As soon as I came on staff, we started talking about doing the console switchover, and we already had an SD5 in our Student Ministry Building, which just had opened up right after I came on staff. “We created what we called a ‘failure log,’ and in a little over a year we had between 60 and 70 entries,” he recalls. When Mike Smith, Prestonwood Baptist Church’s Live Production Lead and Lead Audio Engineer, first arrived over two years ago, he quickly realized that the church’s existing audio console infrastructure was nearing the end of its useful life. Live Production Lead and Lead Audio Engineer Mike Smith manning Prestonwood’s front-of-house mix on one of the church’s new DiGiCo Quantum7 desks The Prosper campus’ new Q7 is supported with two SD-Racks onstage and one more in the broadcast studio, plus an Orange Box for its wireless mics. Also, SD-MiNi Racks are located at both FOH and monitors, with another SD-MiNi Rack in the amp room, and an SD-Nano Rack positioned up in the catwalk. On stage are two more SD-Racks, plus an SD-Nano Rack for tracks, with yet another SD-Rack found in the church’s broadcast studio. The 140-acre Plano campus is also now fitted with an ample complement of I/O stations, including two SD-Racks backstage, along with an Orange Box loaded with DMI-DANTE and DMI-OPTO Optocore cards for wireless microphone inputs. Working closely with integrator Paragon 360, the church installed three DiGiCo Quantum7 consoles in the 7,000-seat auditorium of its main campus in Plano, Texas, used for front of house, monitors, and broadcast, and one more Q7 at its newer Prosper, Texas campus, used to simultaneously handle front of house, monitors, and broadcast for the smaller yet substantial 1,500-seat sanctuary there. ![]() So when the church realized that it needed to revitalize its audio mixing, routing, and management capacity, DiGiCo was clearly the way to go because of its flexible and adaptable workflow, ability to handle large amounts of I/O, and exceptional sonic quality. Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in America with a membership of over 45,000 and a weekly attendance of around 17,000, is emblematic of the Lone Star State’s scale. In Texas, everything is bigger, and that includes the houses of worship. ![]()
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