Now renamed KingsGate Community Church, its technical team has had many months of using the DiGiCo consoles. "When specifying the system, our intention was to make it easy for people to understand the church's message, for it to be simple for them to join in and to feel part of it. Great sound and great vision are all part of that," says KingsGate technical director Pete Charlton.
"The truth is that every time I finish an event, it's been great. The technical side has been so smooth and the DiGiCo consoles play a huge part in that. I'm still continually impressed with the technical facilities we have."
The church has a team of eight sound operators. All are volunteers and none has any pro audio experience, but despite the initial learning curve being steep, the intuitive DiGiCo user interface ensured that they were quickly up to speed.
"It was a huge leap for them to go from a standard analogue console - which we were using before - to a much more complex system," says Charlton. "But the consoles helped them grasp the basic concepts very quickly, which make services and the other events we host run very smoothly."
(Jim Evans)
