Paragon 360 completes overhaul at church using Harman kit

Paragon 360 completes total audio overhaul at Enid, Oklahoma’s Emmanuel Baptist Church with Harman’s Crown amplifiers, BSS audio processing and JBL loudspeakers.

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When Emmanuel Baptist Church was overdue an audio visual system renovation it turned to Springfield, Missouri integrator, Paragon 360 for an upgraded audio system featuring Harman’s Crown, BSS Audio and JBL components to meet the needs of its contemporary worship environment.

“This project was a full renovation with a major architectural redesign of the entire worship center.  It involved new audio, acoustics, lighting, staging and video systems as well as new scenic elements custom designed for the church,” said Mark Coble, audio/acoustics design and commissioning specialist at Paragon 360.

Coble and his design/build team needed to satisfy the requirements of those attending traditional services with a choir; a more blended worship experience with praise singers and a band; and a modern, contemporary worship service.

He also noted that Emmanuel Baptist Church’s pastor likes to deliver passionate sermons and wanted to get his voice down to a whisper and still be heard by all the church’s congregants. The system had to be more than just a house PA – it needed to have the capabilities of a concert sound rig as the church hosts touring artists.

Coble was familiar with the capabilities of Harman gear and had experienced a lot of success with it. "Since this had to be a really dynamic PA, I knew that JBL Vertec line arrays and Crown amps would be the perfect fit for this application," he said.

Paragon 360 deployed eight Vertec VT4886 subcompact line array elements and a VT4883 dual-12-inch subcompact arrayable subwoofer in three main flown clusters each at the left, centre and right of the auditorium. Two JBL STX828S subwoofers were placed in custom subwoofer enclosures located in the face of the stage and four AC28/26 compact 2-way loudspeakers serve as overhead monitors for the choir. Nine AC25 ultra-compact loudspeakers deliver under-balcony fill and four STX812M 12-inch stage monitors cover the pulpit/stage area.

Seven Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers power the main line arrays and subwoofers. Two Crown DCi Series 4|600 amplifiers drive the under-balcony and monitor loudspeakers, with a DCi 2|600 amp handling the choir monitors. The amps and speakers are networked using a BSS BLU-160 Soundweb London Signal Processor with BLU link in conjunction with a BLU-BOB break-out box output expander.


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