PLYMOUTH, Michigan - May 2016 -- With four campuses in Michigan and over 20,000 weekly attendees, NorthRidge Church in the Detroit suburbs of Plymouth and Saline, and the cities of Grosse Ile and Brighton now ranks as one of the 30 largest churches in the US. To best accommodate the remarkable growth and support its increasingly sophisticated worship services, pageants, concerts and other events, the church's flagship location in Plymouth recently purchased two DiGiCo SD7 consoles. Sold through REACH Communications of Champlin, Minnesota, the two new desks replace three DiGiCo CS-D5 consoles that had been in place there for eight years.
The SD7s, which are used to mix front of house and monitors, were installed in the church's 3,000-seat main auditorium in time to support this year's Easter musical and worship events. According to NorthRidge Church Audio Director Mike Duff, the desks are ideal for major productions like this, as well as the church's annual Glory of Christmas event, which features a full orchestra and choir. We needed a higher channel count, for starters, says Duff. But we also wanted to continue to enjoy DiGiCo's workflow, which we really began to appreciate while using the CS-D5 consoles.
Duff says one immediate advantage of the upgrade to SD7 is the redundant engine: Redundancy is critical during any service, and the SD7 gives us confidence in a single console, along with a lot of other improvements.
Those include three user-friendly interactive 15-inch high-resolution touch screens, each of which accommodates a bank of 12 faders; high-definition interactive meter bridges and multicolored knobs and switches for easy customization of the work surface; and 16 assignable faders (one bank of 12, one bank of four) that sit neatly below the master screen in the center of the console and bring the SD7's fader tally to a sizeable 52. Furthermore, the SD7's local I/O includes 12 analog inputs, 12 analog outputs and 12 AES I/O (mono), with four redundant MADI ports per engine, and one Optocore loop with the ability for an option for a second to be fitted. This amounts to a monumental 1,392 I/O connections on a single optic loop with one work surface.
The DiGiCo SD7s seemed to have been destined to join NorthRidge Church. It was the preferred choice of both Duff and monitor mixer Mark Waldbauer to replace the existing CS-D5 desks, but Duff wasn't sure the church's budget would accommodate them. However, NorthRidge Church Creative Arts Director Roxanne Powell, also the wife of church Pastor Brad Powell, was doing her own research, polling regional touring sound companies about their preferences for audio mixing consoles. The clear consensus was the DiGiCo SD7.
It was the top of everyone's list, says Duff, who was pleasantly surprised by the news. She said, Why wouldn't we go with the best?' Now, Duff and Waldbauer enjoy the benefits of the SD7s' workflow, work surfaces and features they couldn't find on any other brand of console. And the three original DiGiCo consoles still have homes at NorthRidge Church: two now handle FOH and monitor mixing duties at the church's Grosse Ile campus and the third is used in the main campus' activity center.
DiGiCo's workflow has been a huge advantage for us, adds Duff. It's something we want to have everywhere we can.
For more info on NorthRidge Church, please visit www.northridgechurch.com. REACH Communications can likewise be found online at www.reachcomm.net.
About DiGiCo
DiGiCo is a UK-based manufacturer of some of the world's most popular, successful and ground-breaking digital mixing consoles for the live, theatre, broadcast and post production industries and is exclusively distributed in the US by Group One Ltd. of Farmingdale, New York. For more information, go to: www.DiGiCo.biz
DiGiCo Press Contacts
David Webster at DiGiCo
Tel: +44 1372 845600
Email: webby@DiGiConsoles.com
Web: www.digico.biz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiGiCo.Official/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiGiCo_official
Chris Shuler at Public Address
Tel: +1 574 514 7131
Email: christophershuler@comcast.net
Images:
1) DiGiCo_NorthRidge_FOH.jpg NorthRidge Church Audio Director Mike Duff manning the FOH mix on one of the church's two new DiGiCo SD7 consoles
2) DiGiCo_NorthRidge_mon.jpg NorthRidge Church Director of Campus Technology Mark Waldbauer mixing monitors for the churchs praise team on a new DiGiCo SD7 desk
Why wouldn't we go with the best? DiGiCo's workflow has been a huge advantage for us. It is something we want to have everywhere we can.
Mike Duff - Audio Director - NorthRidge Church
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PLYMOUTH, Michigan - May 2016 -- With four campuses in Michigan and over 20,000 weekly attendees, NorthRidge Church in the Detroit suburbs of Plymouth and Saline, and the cities of Grosse Ile and Brighton now ranks as one of the 30 largest churches in the US. To best accommodate the remarkable growth and support its increasingly sophisticated worship services, pageants, concerts and other events, the church's flagship location in Plymouth recently purchased two DiGiCo SD7 consoles. Sold through REACH Communications of Champlin, Minnesota, the two new desks replace three DiGiCo CS-D5 consoles that had been in place there for eight years.
