International. Mariners Church recently updated its sound system with a pair of SSL Live consoles. L500 for its 81,000-square-foot church with 3,400 stalls. Located on a picturesque hill off the coast of Newport, Mariners Church boasts contemporary Christian worship and averages 14,000 attendees per week.
This is a substantial increase from its humble beginning in the 1960s, when church worship took place in families' homes in Newport Beach and a number of rented locations, including mariners Elementary School for which it was named. Since the construction of its current worship plant in 2006, Mariners has opened additional locations in Mission Viejo, Huntington Beach, San Juan Capistrano and Santa Ana.
It had been nearly a decade since the church first installed its audio system, which includes a 48-channel analog front-of-house sound console, and the audio team knew it was time for an upgrade. They turned once again to CCI Solutions, the integrator of their original sound system, which this time supplied a pair of new SSL L500 consoles for front-of-house and monitors.
While Mariners has a recurring main band each week, individual guest artists are a frequent fixture for services. Mariners' two Solid State Logic L500 consoles share four 32-channel ML 32.32 analog stageboxes, with a total of 128 stage inputs.
SSL's Live Recorder, which can support 64 channels of recording and playback at 96kHz, is being used in conjunction with SSL Live consoles.
