Just got done designing/supervising the installation of new lights at Southside Assembly....
Their old setup was 12 or so pars on a Strand CD-80 dimmer pack controlled by a NSI memory console...
Overall they wanted more lights (obviously) for normal worship services and special events. The pastor wanted the ability to change the way the stage looked for each sermon series. We installed 16 Leviton LEO's for specials and a pile of pars for color washes and Altar lights.
We put LED's (Chauvet Colorado 1's) along their back wall... Those things are bright...
This is what you can do with 6 led's:
The Colorado's were so bright you can even make red (usually the dimmest LED color) show up on their black wall with full stage and house lights.
As you can see you can do a variety of looks with a few led Pars. If they wanted to - they can take the LED's off their back wall and set them on the ground accenting props, musicians, etc. We also put two of the LEO's midstage to give them the ability to throw breakups on their back wall... Each sermon series they can spend $24 to buy a new pair of gobos for their back wall. The streaks against the wall is temporary - the church is eventually going to buy some spandex and other random soft goods to vary the look up more.
Another thing we added was 6 Par's and 2 Lekos for Altar and pulpit lighting on two new electrics farther in the hosue... The pastor would walk in front of the stage and have no light on him - this would greatly upset their video guy that is trying to stream the service for the internet and DVD sales.
(I don't have a picture of this) I spec'd a Fat Frog to replace their lighting controller - they wanted a contoller that would one day control moving lights. In fact - the Fat Frog was recently discontinued - Southside has one of the last Fat Frogs ever made. Another random upgrade was putting their chandeliers on dimmers.... Instead of parking their house lights at full - they can dim them for video rolls and for worhsip... Pretty cool. We replaced the CD 80 with 36 channels of NSI dimming.
The last thing we added was a simple 4 channel DMX dimmer pack that sits on stage to control small stuff like uplights on their flags, Christmas tree lights, and the occasional 500 watt work light for Jesus' tomb during the last scene of a Passion Play.
Overall the system is pretty cool - I wanted a system that if I walked in the room to play with their lights, that I could have some fun and create a lot of really nice looks.
The church leadership is happy, I am happy.
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