I arrange the string parts, and last year try as I might I could not get the string parts to come through with clarity over the band. “We have a string quartet playing with our worship band – a rock rhythm section and lead singer. Laypersons who know nothing about sound have told me the difference is night and day.”įor Cristina in his dual role as arranger and front of house mixer, a critical test was the Christmas program. We’ve had compliments from the first Sunday. “We used to have a problem with speech clarity in the balcony, but with the LINA system, those problems are gone. “The most important element for church sound is the spoken word,” he acknowledges. Center under-balcony fills are four UPM-1XP loudspeakers while six UP-4XP loudspeakers serve as side under balcony and front fills.ĭespite his musical bias, Cristina acknowledges the critical importance of intelligibility. The main front system comprises left and right arrays of ten each LINA loudspeakers, far wrap-around seating is covered by UPQ-2P loudspeakers, and deep bass is supplied by six 900-LFC low-frequency control elements. But it’s that clarity in the middle, the midrange detail that I’m looking for, and that’s where LINA really delivers.” Yes, it has a great sounding vocal, and all the highs and lows.

“When used with orchestra it sounds like real instruments. “My first impression of LINA was that it is a truly musical system,” he recalls. With a long parallel career as an orchestrator and arranger, Cristina approached the audio system evaluations with a musician’s sensibilities. Following an extended evaluation period, which included two competing on-site demos, Cristina selected a Meyer Sound LINA system supplied by Octane Audio of Fort Collins, Colorado. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, where audio lead and front of house mixer Joe Cristina was tasked with finding the optimum replacement for an aging system of point-source loudspeakers. The first LINA arrays in Southern California were flown at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach and Shiloh Church in Oakland, along with Evangel Temple Assembly of God in Jacksonville, Florida are the first houses of worship to install reinforcement systems based on Meyer Sound’s LINA very compact linear line array loudspeaker, the newest and smallest member of the LEO Family.

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