EVA was selected to upgrade the sanctuary sound system at Centre of Hope, to better serve the church's steadily growing congregation and meet the needs of its weekly services and in-house Christian rock band.
"The space is about 90ft wide by 120ft deep, and seats around 1,000 people," says Joey Hutto of Sound Solutions, "and contains some quite reflective surfaces, including a tile floor, a small balcony, and a metal ceiling. We needed to provide the sonic power and intelligibility they needed, along with highly controlled coverage and long throw; we also wanted to avoid the added expense of delays. Line array was the obvious answer, and our EV Rep Steve Land (EDA Pro Group) told us the new EVA system was ready.
"I'd already heard the boxes during a demo and I been really impressed," Hutto continues. "On the first day of demo-ing EVA in this space, we flew one array of four boxes and fired it up with no shading on the top two boxes (EVA modules contain an internal HF shading network to attenuate the upper or lower HF driver pair by 3dB), the third box shaded minus 3dB, and the bottom box shaded minus 6 dB without any processing to see what vocals and music sounded like, and it sounded excellent running flat like that, right out of the box. I knew then that once we got processing and preamps on the system it was going to be a phenomenal-sounding room."
"EV's Tech support team worked closely with us on the project and did a great job across every detail," Hutto adds. "The EVADA (EVA Design Assistant software) system design and the EASE model they prepared for EVA in this space sealed the deal: after seeing the kind of efficiency and coverage we could achieve with such a compact configuration, the price became even more attractive - being able to power the whole main system with just two amplifiers is amazing for the level of performance it delivers. There's nothing else out there that offers these features and level of performance at this price point."
(Jim Evans)
