Cross Church Fayetteville in Fayetteville, Arkansas is a multi-site with rooms ranging from 500 to 2,000 seats. Worship is flexible with some band-led services and others with traditional choir. Technology is very important to the senior staff to make their online broadcasts look and sound great. Alek Fortner is the director of technical services at the church and he recently agreed to try out the TASCAM Sonicview 24XP Digital Recording and Mixing Console as part of Church Production’s Road Test User Experience.
Tascam's SonicView 24XP Digital Recording and Mixing Console has received the Church Production Road Tested Certification.
“The preamps in it are really great." - Alek Fortner, Director of Technical Services, Cross Church, Fayetteville, Ark.
“From the moment we got it out of the box, we thought it was a super sleek console. It was easy to use, and easy to understand... It comes with three touchscreens along the top. It really just was a simple out-of-the-box console to understand and use,” Fortner enthuses.
The TASCAM Sonicview 24XP (Price: $6,999) features 40 channels, a 32 in and 32 out USB audio interface, a 64 in and 64 out built-in Dante interface, a built-in 32 track, multi-track recorder, 24 mic or line inputs with 24 motorized faders. Fortner’s volunteers took right to it and the church’s pros were impressed.
“We had two volunteer sound engineers sit behind it and they had no problem stepping into it,” he explains. “Normally it takes us two or three sessions to get them caught up on a board and they will sit behind it and easily understand where the buttons are, how to operate it. We also had two paid staff evaluate it and they compared it to some of our high-level broadcast boards and high-level front-of-house boards and they thought it was a great budget option. They didn't find anything on that console that they couldn't find on our nicer consoles that we would use on a regular basis.”
The Sonicview 24XP is compact in price and especially size. It’s a perfect portable solution for any one-man operation that needs to do it all when it comes to audio in a live event. It also has complete remote control functionality through its Sonicview control software used on Windows, Mac, or even iPad so users can control remotely as long as it's plugged in through its ethernet port
“It could easily be a one-in-all all console for a small church looking to try to beef up their live stream but also increase their sound quality for in-house,” Fortner concludes. “The preamps in it are really great. The digital snakes are super affordable compared to other digital snakes of the same class. And so, you buy that console, you buy their digital snakes and your audio quality just immediately jumps leaps ahead of anything else in that sound class.”
To hear more from Fortner about his experience with the Sonicview 24XP and see how they used it, watch this video.
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