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[WM] Earlier today I watched a great venues like T-Mobile Park in Seattle. In addition, Sunday Night Football as one of our techs, so
Facebook Live event with CCI Solutions, the they offer great pricing on products that I can he helped us set up the cameras to get great
AVL integrator you used after the fire. Matt, order from them directly. If they have something angles, and he’s helped us step up our game
what are some of the most obvious benefits in stock, I typically get it the next day because quite a bit. We decided to have a full worship
you’ve seen from working with them? we are only about 40 minutes away on the band to keep things as “normal” as possible
freeway. I simply have a great relationship with in a time when nothing is normal. So in turn,
[Matt] I’ve been working with CCI Solutions them; the guys that installed our AVL system as we needed to use our entire AVL team; audio,
since the early 90’s when I was a college well as my personal sales rep, Jake, who does lighting, ProPresenter, and of course video
student not wear khakis, at least not that I’m aware of. switcher and audio for video. We wanted a
(laughs) great mix for an empty room so our ambient
working
in
the
Audio
Services
department at Pacific Lutheran University. Back
then, they were called Capital Communications
mics were effective, so we still needed an FOH
Industries, since they were based out of [WM] What were some of your big takeaways engineer. We use ProPresenter for our lower
Olympia, Washington, the capital city of the from your first weekend of streaming without third lyrics, scripture and message notes, so
state. They were a huge provider of custom the congregation in the sanctuary? we still needed that tech even though we don’t
length cassette tapes, which we used a ton of
have a crowd who needs to see the words
at PLU. One of our biggest roles back then was [Matt] What we discovered right away is that mass duplication of cassettes for the campus our worship space has become an oversized as well as outside clients. Anyway, I digress. TV studio. (laughs) Also, Pastor Tim and our I was very anxious because we were “it”… if we
(laughs) They have always been reliable and worship leader, Gerod, needed to address the had a failure of some sort, hundreds of people
on the front edge of the curve when it came to cameras instead of the people (since there would be disappointed and discouraged. I
providing new, but proven, technology in audio, weren’t any). A couple cool things were that we didn’t want to be the reason people turned
video and lighting. I’ve always trusted their found we could place our cameras anywhere in off the stream. That’s a lot of pressure. I had
insight and knowledge. They offer excellent the room, which was kind of cool, and we didn’t considered pre-recording the service and then
AVL integration. Not only do they do installs in have to strike anything afterward. (laughs) We re-broadcasting it, but it would have been a
churches all over the country, they also do large are fortunate to have a crew member of NBC’s scheduling nightmare with our musician and
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