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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAustralia’s Crossway Baptist Church Chooses EAW UMX.96 Digital Console for FOH
Digital Console for Australian “megachurch” is EAW’s first fixed installation of the flagship UMX.96
Other EAW speaker/processor products bolster Crossway’s sound with Gunness Focusing™ technology
Whitinsville, MA, USA – October 27, 2008 – EAW, a world leader in audio system solutions, recently provided Melbourne, Australia-based Crossway Baptist Church (www.crossway.org.au) with EAW’s flagship UMX.96 Digital Console for use as the church’s Front-of-House (FOH) mixing console. With regular cumulative Sunday attendance of upwards of 4,000 people and up to 1,100 at each service, Crossway is one of Australia’s largest churches. With such massive services, as well as contemporary music and worship styles, full live video support with six cameras and multiple screens and a heavy online/streaming presence, Crossway required a particularly powerful and versatile FOH mixing console, which is exactly what the UMX.96 delivered. Graeme Stevenson and the rest of the team at Production Audio Services (Mitcham, Victoria) handled the sale and worked very closely with Crossway personnel in the choice and design of the system.
“The UMX.96 is very intuitive and easy to operate, which is important for us, as most of our operators are volunteers,” stated Peter MacLean, Crossway Baptist Church Media Pastor. “Adding to that, it has comprehensive features and lots of outputs for all our needs. The physical layout is very ergonomically designed and user friendly, with the sloped rear section and 48 input faders always available. And of course it sounds fantastic, with very smooth and musical EQ and dynamics. The sound helps us not only create and craft great music, but also enhance it rather than simply controlling it.”
Another part of Crossway’s audio upgrade was the addition of EAW speakers and processors with EAW’s proprietary Gunness Focusing™ technology. Included are two EAW UX8800 Digital Signal Processors and eight MK8196 2-way full range installation loudspeakers for under fill and stage lip fills. MacLean added, “With this new system, we achieve much more punchy and dynamic sound with better clarity for both music and speech. Plus, we get around 3dB more perceived volume due to the Gunness Focusing technology. We have better level and balance across the whole auditorium, especially at the front now that we’re using in-ear monitoring.”
About the UMX.96 Digital Console
The UMX.96 digital mixing console re-defines performance benchmarks, offering more power, control, and integration than any digital live console on the market today. With open-ended architecture and next-generation processing, it’s nothing less than an integrated live sound environment, providing end-to-end control of the signal chain - from microphone inputs to the onboard DSP for system tuning. For more information, please visit http://www.eaw.com/products/UMX/.###
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Caption – Melbourne, Australia-based Crossway Baptist Church uses the EAW UMX.96 Digital Console at a recent conference event.
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