WideLine8 in the AGI warehouse

We’ve had the pleasure of having one of the new QSC WideLine 8 compact line array system’s dropped off to us to play with for a few weeks.

Although this was our first “overnight” demo several AGI staff members have mixed on WideLine systems with great success.

We came together as a company with QSC rep Brendon Brown (from The Farm AV) formerly the tour manager & FOH mixer for Hoobastank. It wasn’t raining on this day (surprisingly) so we took it outside into the warehouse parking lot and took a listen. We even shot it down an adjoining street to see what the coverage was as you moved away from the stacks. In the end we were very impressed with the range and coverage with the WideLine.

Lead Installer Ray and I took this system to a local church’s youth worship night. This church has a pretty rocking band and we were “taking it to 11″. The system performed very well and it really showed off it’s “rock and roll” punch.

At the end of the night, it was all about the load out – and this system broke down and loaded out with ease. From there it was to Dairy Queen to reward us for a job well done. And no, we didn’t share our ice cream with the WideLine.

New distributed audio system for St. Edward's Church

AGI completed the installation of a new sound system package incorporating a total of 17  QSC Acoustic Design loudspeakers in 8 different zones controlled by a BSS BLU-16 system processor.  The system addressed problems with unevenness and dead-spots within the room which has extremely low ceilings.  By creating multiple sets of delay rings, the new reinforcement system is able to provide better coverage at lower volumes throughout the space. Once the installation was done the team returned home.

Unfortunately even with a training over the new system the first weekend didn’t go so well with the new technology.

Upon hearing this, as a part of our commitment to our customers and our work, AGI sent Kelly Baum (our Project Manager) over for the weekend to help and train the lay leaders using the new system. Things couldn’t have gone any better and one of the comments from the church staff members after additional help was “folks could hear everything and it blended so well and at the same time soft, instead of just hearing one voice or one instrument.” In the end St. Edwards is very happy with thier new setup and grateful for all the help AGI provided.

This is why we are here.

QSC has really done it this time.  Their new K Series has to be the best sounding powered speaekrs under $1,000 we’ve ever heard.  The K8, K10, K12, and KSub all use the same 1,000WATT power amplifier.  There a build in mixer on the three 2-way boxes and the sub is a dual 12 that sound really good. We’ve sold several pairs of already and have more in stock.  Contact Joe Fritts to get a quote on yours now.