First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church of Traverse City reached out to us to help them design the remodel of the AV in the entire campus, which was also undergoing an architectural interior upgrade. We worked alongside them to come up with a building-wide plan to find the best audio and visual solutions for them. 

The church uses three rooms for different services, the Fellowship Hall, the Chapel, and the main Sanctuary. 

All three spaces need to have video streaming capabilities and they needed a central video room with audio broadcasting as well. Parkway implemented an SDI cabling infrastructure and Dante Audio networking to all three rooms which allowed the video to be routed to and from the broadcast room. We also installed all new Yamaha TF mixing consoles and stage racks which all talk to each other on the Dante audio network. The Broadcast mixing console can pull all the channels from any of the three rooms. 

The fellowship room was re-designed and the stage was rotated from its original location. There was a huge challenge to get projection designed for the room and ultimately, we decided on an Absen Acclaim series 2.5mm 16’ x 9’ direct view LED screen mounted on the back wall of the stage. The wall really encompasses the stage and pulls the viewer into the content. 

Along with the video and audio, we installed new house lighting from The Light Source. We installed 20 MP RGBW LED fixtures.