The Crossroads Church in Vancouver, Washington recently installed a new Danley Sound Labs sound reinforcement system for the church’s 2,200-seat auditorium.
Focus Partners LLC had been working with Crossroads for two years to upgrade the church’s video, recording, and broadcast infrastructure to bring it up to full HD spec.
“The next project that needed serious attention was the sound reinforcement system for their main auditorium, which was hard to listen to and fatiguing,” explained Dave Dartnall, owner and partner of Focus Partners. “We had already updated their 350-seat chapel with a pair of Danley SM-96 loudspeakers, and they were totally shocked at how good they sounded. These are very technically-sophisticated folks; there are recording artists in the congregation, and the church hires high-end recording and live engineers. Pastor Daniel Fusco is a first-rate musician and has a very discriminating ear. The FOH engineer Remington Smith has mixed bands and theatrical productions on every sized system in every type of venue – there’s really no gear he hasn’t heard! Why, there’s even a world-class recording studio on campus! These people know their stuff!”
“Afterward, they said that the Danley system sounded so good that they would have gone with it even if it was more expensive than the line array,” Dartnall said. “The fact that it was a third of the cost was just a huge bonus!” The Danley system consists of two Danley SH-96HOs tight-packed and flown above the center stage for a true center channel that covers the entire room. An additional Danley SH-96HO flanks the central cluster on either side to provide true left-right stereo imaging. Eighty-percent of the congregation gets stereo coverage. Three Danley TH-118 subwoofers provide low-end support. Fed from Crossroads’ Dante network, three 4-channel Danley DNA 20k4 Pro Dante amplifiers power the system, with onboard DSP used for loudspeaker conditioning. Interestingly, those seven Danley boxes replaced forty boxes in the old system!
In addition, Crossroads Church recently adopted a sister church across the river in Portland and have asked Focus Partners to come up with and install a new sound reinforcement system for the satellite church.
