Seacoast Church makes Quantum moves
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Seacoast Church recently installed a DiGiCo Quantum338 console at front of house for the church’s main and broadcast location in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina that seats 2,500. In addition, a new DiGiCo Quantum225 console is on order for the campus’ 1,300-seat Student Centre auditorium, with a third future Quantum225 planned for the church’s 800-seat Warehouse space.
The new FOH Quantum338 is complemented with a pair of SD-Racks for a total of 96 inputs and 48 analogue outputs, with 32-bit ‘Ultimate Stadius’ microphone pre-amps. All of the DiGiCo desks will also be fitted with DMI-KLANG and DMI-Dante cards to support the church’s Shure PSM 1000 and 900 IEM monitoring systems and planned-for connectivity throughout the campus, respectively.
“The sonic experience is very important at Seacoast Church,” says Preston Russ, director of design at WAVE, the Concord, North Carolina-based design and integration firm that installed the DiGiCo products. “The music is Contemporary Christian and high energy, so the sound has to be great. DiGiCo assures that.”
As important, though, was the desire to create a new and future-proof workflow ecosystem at the church, one that would start at the Mount Pleasant location, which also serves as the main broadcast site, and would be able to rolled out throughout the Seacoast community of church plants.
“As important as the sound quality was, they were also looking for ease of use, reliability, and stability,” says Russ. “The Quantum technology gives them all of that. These were the first DiGiCo consoles they’ve used, but Mike Ward, their main mix engineer, has had a lot of experience with DiGiCo and he was already very comfortable with the idea of using them. And Brandon Lake, who is one of their worship pastors, is very forward-looking when it comes to technology, and he was impressed with the kind of ecosystem that could be built there.”
