{"id":14703,"date":"2020-12-29T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=hot-news&p=14703"},"modified":"2023-01-31T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:39:18","slug":"christmas-under-the-stars-is-a-stellar-success-with-l-acoustics","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/press-releases\/christmas-under-the-stars-is-a-stellar-success-with-l-acoustics\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Under The Stars is a Stellar Success with L-Acoustics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vision One installed a high performing, affordable line array system to deliver quality audio to patrons for dining and dancing<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHOENIX, Arizona \u2013 December 2020<\/strong> \u2013 Christ\u2019s Church of the Valley (CCV)<\/a>, a non-denominational Christian church located in and around Phoenix, likes to do things in a big way. Founded in 1982, CCV was able to raise over $1 million in a single day back in 1996 to purchase 50 acres in the northwest suburb of Peoria where it would build its main 3,000-seat campus, the first of what are now ten worship locations, and soon to be an even dozen in 2021.

When it came to its annual Christmastime event for 2020, the church wasn\u2019t about to let COVID-19 permanently halt the production. Instead, it produced Christmas Under The Stars<\/a> outdoors and safely spaced at all of its campuses over six nights during the holiday. Enjoyed by an estimated 50,000 people, each campus had fantastic sound thanks to the deployment of an astounding 210 L-Acoustics loudspeaker enclosures and components provided by the Phoenix office of Clearwing Productions.

\u201cIt was pretty incredible,\u201d recalls Clearwing Audio<\/a> Engineer\/Designer Joe Spitzer, who is also a certified and accomplished L-Acoustics K<\/a> System Engineer (KSE). \u201cWe approached this as we would a music festival with ten separate stages. L-Acoustics had the perfect mix of speakers and technologies to let us design and build PA systems that were exactly matched to each location\u2019s acoustical and coverage needs, as well as make sure we had consistent sound quality across all ten sites. Plus, it was consistent with the sound the church is used to hearing because they have L-Acoustics Kara<\/a> or Kiva II<\/a> systems in more than half of their campuses. So the system performance was very familiar to their own engineers.\u201d

The main Peoria campus had the largest single system, consisting of a flown PA using seven Kara boxes per side for the main arrays and six more per hang for the side arrays. Six SB28<\/a> subs provided low end, and the whole system was powered by four LA-RAK II<\/a> amplified controllers, each containing three LA12X<\/a> amplifiers.

The other nine campuses had combinations of six Kara or eight Kiva II speakers per side, most stacked atop a pair of either SB28 or KS28<\/a> subs, while two locations had six-Kara hangs flown per side. One location, an auditorium with a wide, fan-shaped seating area, utilized two A15 Wide<\/a> and two A15 Focus<\/a> enclosures per side. In all, Clearwing\u2019s technicians deployed a sum of 74 Kara, 48 Kiva II, ten X8<\/a>, six X15 HiQ<\/a>, six ARCS II<\/a>, four A15 Focus<\/a>, four A15 Wide<\/a>, eight 12XT<\/a>, and two Syva<\/a>, paired with a total of 28 SB28, 16 KS28, and four KS21<\/a> subs, plus 25 amplified controller racks.

But there was far more to this sprawling project than speakers and amplifiers\u2014the right digital tools from L-Acoustics and a good logistical plan were also critical. Spitzer explains, \u201cWe wanted to achieve the same tonality and low-frequency contours that they get indoors in all of the outdoor locations.\u201d Spitzer supervised his installation crews over five days as they set up systems in each location, then stepped in for the final tunings and calibration. For that, he utilized L-Acoustics Soundvision<\/a> acoustic prediction software paired with the M1<\/a> calibration suite bundled with LA Network Manager<\/a> on a P1<\/a> processor. Together, these platforms created a seamless workflow that began with systems design and extended through tuning and critical listening, providing maximum consistency in system performance across all sites night after night.

One particular application of the LA Network Manager control and monitoring software that was heavily used for Christmas Under The Stars was the Autoclimate feature, which allows for the simultaneous adjustment of air-compensation filters based on measured temperature and humidity conditions. \u201cThe band would do its soundcheck during the day, but by the time the show was to go on, the temperature had dropped, and there was more moisture in the air,\u201d he says. \u201cThe change in humidity, in particular, accentuates high frequencies, and Autoclimate allowed us to automatically compensate for changing air conditions, dialing high frequencies back as needed. It is an awesome capability to have for a set of shows like this.\u201d

The church agreed. Production Director Blair Drake was impressed by how consistent the sound quality was between the various outdoor performance locations and how closely it matched what the audience members hear inside the churches. \u201cThe Soundvision modeling was extremely accurate\u2014what the software predicted was very true to the end result,\u201d says Drake, who mixed FOH sound at the Peoria campus in addition to overseeing all of the audio crews at the other event locations. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the many reasons we\u2019ve been using L-Acoustics for so long.\u201d

He adds that all of CCV\u2019s new locations in the last six years have had Kara and Kiva II PA systems installed, and the pending new locations for 2021, in Phoenix suburbs of Laveen and Queen Creek, will have L-Acoustics A Series sound systems. \u201cClearwing did a fantastic job on this project, making it work under very challenging conditions,\u201d he says. \u201cBut L-Acoustics gave us the right tools to make it all happen.\u201d

Visit www.ccv.church\/christmas<\/a> for more details on CCV\u2019s Christmas Under The Stars. Clearwing Productions can be found online at www.clearwing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • \"Kara\/SB28\"
    Rehearsing on the Kara\/SB28 rig at North Phoenix<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"ARCS
    CCV\u2019s Scottsdale location utilized a ground-stacked setup of ARCS II enclosures atop SB28 subs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Peoria
    Another view of the Peoria site\u2019s setup<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Christmas
    Soundcheck for Christmas Under The Stars at CCV\u2019s Peoria campus where Clearwing flew four L-Acoustics Kara arrays over KS28 subs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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