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DMX

FAQ: What’s a good DMX splitter to use?

What specific DMX splitter does Willow use or recommend for splitting DMX in a lighting rig? The link below is for the industry standard of Opto-Splitter.  And when I say industry-standard, I mean every rental house in America has them.  Well worth the money. http://www.dfd.com/123.html <Chris Thomas> LIGHTING DIRECTOR Willow Creek Community Church  

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Nursery child number notifications

We call this “PCall”, short for “Parent-Call”. We used to use a simple PowerPoint graphic for this system. But it still required an operator, or someone to manually enter the numbers into the graphic. We longed for a more automated system. We looked into how ProPresenter does this, but we needed a seperate system that [...]

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How do you provide services for the hearing impaired?

On a typical weekend service at Willow, we offer live sign language interpretation at one of our main services, click HERE for more info. However, occasionally, we have done Closed Captioning for a satellite broadcast event as the embedded captioning information can be transmitted along with the video signal & decoded on a TV easily. [...]

WCCC Production Systems Status Board

What system do you use for tracking broken equipment?

Due to the size of Willow and the various venues and production equipment that is installed on our campus, one of our production department’s divisions is a Production Systems team designated to the installation, maintenance, upkeep, and troubleshooting of all production related audio/video/lighting systems throughout Willow Creek.  With all of the usage that our gear [...]

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Inside Willow’s Translation Rooms

The congregation at Willow is proudly multicultural and multilingual. To accommodate our diverse attendants, we provide several language translations on a regular weekly basis ( Polish, Chinese, Korean, Spanish) in our Main Auditorium, as well as an English translation for our Casa Spanish speaking service in our Lakeside auditorium. To accomplish this, we have several [...]

DPA Microphones 4066 Omnidirectional Headset Microphone

What type of microphones are used for our pastors & speakers?

Our primary go-to microphone that we use for all of our speakers and pastors during our service is a DPA 4066 Omnidirectional Headband.  These come in various colors and connectors to match wireless transmitters, wired XLR connectors, and to match skin color of your speakers.  We have chosen the DPA 4066 because of it’s comfort [...]

Video Operations

How do you record video of your services and how do you distribute these to the web?

Willow Creek went tapeless in 2008, we live capture our services directly into Final Cut for ease of distribution and archiving.

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What computer hardware & software do you use for lyrics/sermon presentation?

We use Renewed Vision ProPresenter 4 for all our lyric & sermon presentation graphics.

Master Control Audio Meters

What equipment does Willow use?

Navigate to the “Venues” section of Willow Production to view our equipment and stats of our rooms.

It's Too Loud

What is Willow Creek’s Audio Volume Policy?

We are often asked what our volume policy for SPL levels during a worship service is at Willow Creek. Our official policy can be found here.

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