World Revival Church opts for Focusrite’s RedNet
Published: WORSHIP
WORLD: Due to an extensive streaming initiative, the World Revival Church in Kansas City, Missouri, has spread its message to hundreds of thousands of people. Recently helping the church keep its outreach global is RedNet, Focusrite’s range of modular Ethernet-networked audio interfaces.
C.J Drumeller, who supervises audio and other technologies for the church, has been using two RedNet 5 and a RedNet 3 audio interfaces for the HOW, forming a fully digital audio reproduction and recording system. These were added as the finishing touches to a larger audio system upgrade, that in the last several months saw Mr Drumeller and Pastor Steve Gray oversee the installation of a new RoomMatch loudspeaker system from Bose Professional Systems Division and a new Yamaha CL5 digital FOH console in the main sanctuary, giving the church a fully digital signal path from stage to speaker.
Mr Drumeller recognised the church’s need for networked audio, so the choice of the Yamaha console, which includes support for the Dante networking solution, was crucial. That would allow the use of the fully Dante-enabled RedNet interfaces to be critical links in the new all-digital signal chain.
The RedNet 3 unit interfaces existing digital audio systems and components to the Dante digital audio network, with up to 32 inputs and outputs. The unit includes support for AES, S/PDIF and ADAT digital audio formats and allows the RedNet system to be synchronised to incoming signal clock or a word clock source.
‘For three years we’ve been using an analogue split from the FOH console to a Pro Tools HD4 system to feed our growing streaming operation,’ Mr Drumeller explained. ‘We first began using the RedNet 3 interfaces for the IFB (interruptible feedback) connection between churches around the world that let us hold interactive services with them – our congregation worships along with their band and they do the same with our band.’
In addition to this the church is also using two RedNet 5 units to bridge between the Dante network and their Avid Pro Tools HD4 system. Up to six units can be connected to one Pro Tools HDX system, supporting up to 192 channels at 96KHz.
‘Before RedNet 5, we were using four Avid 192 I/O devices,’ he added. ‘Now, just a pair of RedNet 5 interfaces gives us 64 I/O, more than we need at the moment, and with the ability to increase the I/O count as needed just by adding another RedNet 5.’