At six campuses throughout the greater Pensacola area, Florida Panhandle-based Liberty Church hosts contemporary services – such as those at the 200-seat Gulf Breeze campus. Here the church has adopted a Klang:fabrik 3D IEM mixing system, making monitor mixing more streamlined.

With the Klang:fabrik system configured for 32 inputs by six stereo outputs, the musicians and singers at the three Sunday services each not only hear themselves, but also hear themselves spatially in relation to the other musicians and singers on stage – capability at which the Klang:fabrik excels.

‘The vocalists love the way it helps them fit into the overall picture on stage, and we love it because of the level of control we can have over the monitor mixes,’ says Kelly Ward, Audio & Media Director at Liberty Church’s Gulf Breeze campus, as well as the commissioning specialist at All Pro Integrated Systems who installed the Klang:fabrik unit.

Ward, who works with Gulf Breeze Worship Leader Jamie Anderson, says he can manage the system from a laptop at the back of the church, where the Klang:fabrik unit is connected to an Allen & Heath GLD-80 FOH console and connects to the 36x10-ft stage via Dante over a Cat6 cable.

Anderson, who also plays guitar and sings, adjusts the mixes through it from the stage using the Klang:app from an Apple iPad as he, the guitarist, bassist, keyboard player and vocalists listen through their discrete Klang output mixes, allowing for a completely ‘silent stage’ for monitors (including DI connections for the instruments into the PA).

‘We’ve found that managing the monitor mixes this way works best for us, because we can respond to the vocalists’ balance requests quickly and precisely through the apps, and let them concentrate on the music during rehearsals and during services,’ Ward explains. ‘The overall outcome is excellent, because the singers and band members have exactly the mixes they need to hear while they can concentrate on the performance instead of the technology, and the control of the sound on the stage is complete, which makes for a better experience overall during services.’

Ward is now recommending the Klang:fabrik 3D IEM mixing system to other All Pro Integrated Systems house-of-worship A/V clients when it would be a good fit, which is often, he says. ‘The Klang has been a game changer for us at the church, and we’d like others to enjoy the same benefits.’