橡树河教堂 started as an offshoot from another church around 20 years ago in a school auditorium. They were soon able to start a multi part building project, first building a gymnatorium, and later offices and classrooms. In 2020, the growing church broke ground on a new, purpose-built facility in Chesapeake, 维吉尼亚州, to house their burgeoning ministry.
When Justin Fugett was tapped to help bring 橡树河教堂’s new facility to life in 2021, he understood the importance of the intercom system from his experience as a freelancer working with local broadcast organizations and universities. 橡树河教堂 had an 再来一个 Partyline system, and Justin knew they didn’t require the horsepower of a matrix-based system, yet they did need more than a simple partyline system if they were going to be able to grow their productions. River Oak was looking into getting wireless beltpacks to add to their system. The timing was fortuitous, as this is just when Justin was starting to hear about 十大正规体育平台®的新 世外桃源®中央车站. Combining support for the industry standard digital wireless FreeSpeak二世® system, as well as integrating HelixNet®Digital Partyline, 2W / 4W连接, 但丁, Justin realized at once that 世外桃源 was the perfect fit for 橡树河教堂.
“老实说, I feel like every church needs to know about 世外桃源 – it’s the absolute perfect fit for so many church applications. It has the 灵活性 and connections that we need, without the complexity of a matrix-based system. For an organization that gets a lot of their staffing from volunteers or part-time staff, 世外桃源 is an ideal combination of power, 灵活性, 和易用性,贾斯汀评论道。.
FreeSpeak二世 was Justin’s introduction to 十大正规体育平台 systems and was his “go-to” wireless solution for freelance projects. He knew that 橡树河教堂 would need a FreeSpeak® system, and the opportunity to incorporate Dante, HelixNet, and 2W/4W into a single central station with 世外桃源 was truly game-changing for this project. “I fell in love with FreeSpeak二世 during my time at Regent University, and now with HelixNet in the same box, it’s been really awesome,贾斯汀欢呼道。. “I love that I’m not stuck with the limitations of physical wire runs – with a network port I can put anyone on a HelixNet endpoint, wherever they need to be. And the camera people are now on HelixNet, which allows them to have a program feed in their ear, which they really appreciate.”
Another game-changer is 世外桃源’s ability to interface with third-party Dante devices. With 世外桃源 on the Dante network, it is able to send or receive any feed within the audio network. For 橡树河教堂 this means that the 服务 Producer and ProPresenter Operator can both hear and talk to the worship leader and MD through the monitor system, all interfaced via Dante. Justin described a situation where having Dante in the intercom system helped significantly, “在洗礼, the mics have been known to get wet which can lead to bad or no audio for the sanctuary. The booth producer can now listen to the individual microphones directly from a wireless FreeSpeak beltpack, which has actually saved us on multiple occasions.”
The intercom system also includes the 十大正规体育平台 再来一个® analog partyline system, 主要在后台使用, and there are future plans to bring in the latest FreeSpeak system, FreeSpeak边缘®, to augment the system. 世外桃源 supports all these endpoints, making it easy to manage a cohesive system. “Several of us are able to easily make changes to roles at any time during services or rehearsals to suit each user’s needs”, 贾斯汀说.
For 橡树河教堂’s growing congregation and evolving production goals, 世外桃源 offers a lot of possibilities for the future. “I’m intrigued by what features will be coming down the path for 世外桃源 moving forward,贾斯汀评论道。. “HelixNet opened up a whole new world, and we’re excited by what the future will bring. 世外桃源 is just such a powerful and flexible platform – but simple to use – making it an obvious choice for 橡树河教堂, and I think a lot of other churches as well.”