High Kirk Presbyterian Church goes digital with A&H
Published: WORSHIP
IRELAND: High Kirk Presbyterian Church in Ballymena, Ireland, has recently been installed with Allen & Heath GLD digital mixing consoles as part of a major refurbishment project. Requiring two new desks, one for live and the other for recording, the church was looking for a solution that would satisfy the variety of operators the consoles would be used by.
‘During the demo, the more we looked at it, the more we realised how perfect the GLD was for our requirements – a single solution which totally eliminated our need for outboard equipment,’ explained the church’s head of sound, Brian Adams. ‘Furthermore, all of our operators have their own preferred “layout” but with 28 faders and four layers, it turns out that everyone can have the desk arranged to suit their personal preferences.’
The Church purchased two GLD-112 desks plus an AR2412 and two AR84 I/O expanders. Both were fitted with M-Dante network cards for multitrack recording. ‘When it came to our purchasing decision, the LCD displays were one of the most important features of the desk. With multiple operators, and the need for different fader layouts, the last thing we wanted was a dependence on rolls of camera tape and Sharpies,’ added Mr Adams. ‘Not only do the channel names change as we switch layers but we use the colour coding to great effect.’
‘During the refurbishment, we had to relocate to another part of the church for a few weeks – you can imagine how difficult this would have been with our old copper multis,’ concluded Mr Adams. ‘With the GLD, we screwed a few hooks into the ceiling and ran in a couple of temporary Cat5e cables and were up and running within minutes.’