St Paul’s Standardises Sound With DiGiCo Quantum 225 Consoles And 4REA4

St Paul's Church in Castle Hill, Sydney, has upgraded its audio infrastructure, with CityAlight, the church's music ministry, steering the move to DiGiCo's latest digital mixing solutions. Working with music and pro audio retailer Turramurra Music, the team added two Quantum 225 consoles and a 4REA4 system processor to its existing DiGiCo SD12 and SD Racks, all tied together on an optical loop.

"DiGiCo Quantum is an ideal platform for larger churches and other venues where audio quality, ease of operation and long-term flexibility are all critical," says Mat Stevens, General Manager of Turramurra Music. "Quantum delivers the sound quality and intuitive workflow you'd expect from DiGiCo, while giving venues the scalability to expand and adapt their systems as their requirements evolve."

Part of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, St Paul's runs a busy calendar of community events and concerts alongside three Sunday services, two of which are live-streamed each week. By standardising on DiGiCo across front of house, monitors and broadcast, the church has simplified training and weekly operation for its large volunteer crew while building on its established SD12 workflow.

Jared, Audio Engineer at CityAlight, said: "With the new Quantum consoles, we're finding that our loudspeaker-system, our presets, and the overall ecosystem that we've built is becoming a much more consistent experience for our team," he says. "Using DiGiCo consoles exclusively gives us one platform to train on and one platform to operate. The benefit of this is that across each of our Quantum consoles, we're able to deploy a show file that makes sense for the consoles at front of house, monitors and the broadcast position while also being consistent in its deliverables and its appearance. Each week our operators are getting straight into what they love, mixing, rather than setting up a system each time."

Rich Vassallo, Chief Operating Officer for CityAlight, said: "One of the big things about the DiGiCo Quantum 225 is the intuitive nature of the layout and the user interface. Another of our primary focuses was to create a system that had redundancy and future expandability."

At the heart of the new deployment is DiGiCo's FPGA-powered 4REA4 system processor, which offers up to 128 input channels and 56 outputs, flexible networking, and tight integration with DiGiCo consoles and third-party audio protocols. At St Paul's, it serves as a bridge between the church's MADI, Dante and optical networks, streamlining distribution across multiple spaces. "The 4REA4 has been integrated for distribution of audio to the many areas around the venue that require it," he notes. "To be able to rely on Snapshots and automation makes things easier for their volunteer team to achieve a great professional result on Sundays."

The modernised, scalable platform supports seamless networking and has elevated audio for both in-person and streamed services. Rich concluded: "Since we upgraded to the Quantum 225s and the 4REA4, we have noticed a significant increase in quality, in both our speech and music delivery. It was a huge relief on the first day that we launched it and we got a lot of amazing feedback from the congregation about how pleased they were. They said that the music just sounded even and full."

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