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DiGiCo console complements new processor for Christ Wesleyan Church’s broadcast audio

Each summer and fall season, Christ Wesleyan Church (CWC) in Milton, Pennsylvania, puts on theatrical plays and musicals - last year saw “The Sound of Music” performed in its 1,100-seat auditorium, where “Titanic - The Musical” and “The Diary of Anne Frank” were performed the year before, and where the church’s affiliated high school also puts on some rather technically sophisticated productions of its own.

“These are not your typical church productions”, says CWC Communication/Broadcast Creative Director Brent Mestach. “But it’s why we needed to up our audio game as the productions became more complex and the number of wireless microphones began to exceed fifty. And that’s why there’s now a DiGiCo Quantum 338 console in use here. We needed more I/O, and we needed more power.”

The Quantum 338 was acquired in late 2020, the same year it was introduced, through locally owned Divine Sound and Technologies. Subsequently, CWC also added a DiGiCo 4REA4 processor, purchased through nearby Clair Global. The Quantum 338 serves as the church’s FOH console, for both theatrical productions and Sunday services, and is on an Optocore network with an SD-Rack used as stage box.

In addition, the 4REA4 processor and a DiGiCo A168 Stage expander unit are located in the converted bathroom of an upstairs space formerly used as a cry room that was renovated into a broadcast-audio control room during the pandemic, used to mix the church’s remote Sunday services. It currently interfaces with a DiGiCo DMI-Waves SoundGrid card over Cat-6 and a Gigabit switch, though Mestach says the plan for the near future is to connect the 4REA4 with the Quantum 338 on the Optocore network, allowing all of the mix positions to access all of the inputs from the stage.

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