LCBC Church transitions from CL5 to DM7
DM7 Road Test at LCBC Church
Summary LCBC Church’s switch from Yamaha CL5 to DM7 delivered intuitive design, dual screens, 96k audio, and easy usability for worship and broadcast.
“The first thing right off the bat that I really like about this console is the user interface and just the overall workflow. Everything that I need is right there on the home screen in a way that makes sense.”
“…it feels like audio engineers designed it for audio engineers …” – Brian Tru, Broadcast Audio Coordinator at LCBC Church, Manheim, PA
The Yamaha DM7 Digital Mixing Console has received the Church Production Road Tested Certification.
As part of Church Production’s Road Test User Experience, Tru and his team put the DM7 through its paces at LCBC Church’s Manheim, Pennsylvania broadcast campus and during the church’s summer youth camp. Tru serves as broadcast audio coordinator for LCBC, which operates 24 campuses across Pennsylvania.
He immediately noticed the benefits of the higher sample rate.
“I really like that it feels like audio engineers designed it for audio engineers—it just makes sense and is very intuitive, even the first time you sit down,” Tru says.
Coming from a CL5 environment, the expanded outputs stood out.
“Having more onboard outputs let us create several monitor mixes right on the console. On the CL5, you needed a RIO for those analog outputs. With the DM7, we had everything natively, so our musicians and singers could choose onboard mixes instead of personal monitor systems.”
The jump to 96k also impressed him.
“One of the things I loved about moving to the DM7 is mixing at 96k instead of 48k on the CL5. My music director told me just the other day that the mix sounds much cleaner—and I can only attribute that to what’s happening inside the DM7.”
Tru’s biggest concern was volunteer usability at the broadcast campus. Those worries quickly disappeared.
“All the volunteers love the console,” he says. “They love having two screens instead of one, and they really appreciate the ability to put all the user-defined keys right on the touchscreen.”
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