ALLEN & HEATH QU-32 IN SINGAPORE CATHEDRAL
18 October 2015
Singapore’s iconic St. Andrew’s Cathedral recently installed two Allen & Heath’s Qu-32 compact digital mixers at FOH in its two main worship halls, replacing the existing analogue mixers.
As a major place of worship, St Andrew’s Cathedral faces the challenge of hosting a number of different services, with a variety of musical requirements, and quick changeovers between events. The installation of 32in/24out Qu-32 digital mixers in the traditional worship hall at the Main Building and the contemporary worship space at the Extension building, has provided a solution.
“The Cathedral has many services running back to back especially on Sundays from as early as 6:30am. With the previous analogue mixer, a ‘reset’ was needed during service changeovers. This caused some anxiety amongst our volunteers manning the mixer, as the time between services can be as close as five minutes. The numerous controls could be a headache, especially for new volunteers, and there were times when missing that one button caused some embarrassment,” commented Kevin Quek, Facilities Manager at the Cathedral.
“With the QU-32, we preset the scenes to the service requirements. Now, all that the volunteers need to do is to recall their scenes, and almost instantaneously everything falls into place ready to go. One volunteer commented that now they have ‘so much time’ on their hands whilst waiting for the service to commence!” continued Quek.
Initially it was feared that volunteers would not be able to cope with the digital mixer but they were surprised at how quickly the volunteers learnt to use the Qu-32 was to use, and how closely it resembled an analogue mixer.
“A lot of time is saved with a mixer like the Qu-32, which works intuitively and helps make the operations much easier. It is always very satisfying when we see that the solutions provided work to our clients’ benefit,” commented Gary Goh, Deputy Managing Director of Electronics & Engineering Pte Ltd.
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