Temple Baptist Church

Hattiesburg, MS

By Technical Resource Group

April 10^th, 2023

In Fall of 2008, Technical Resource Group partnered with Temple Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, MS to undertake a large project of installing new audio, video and lighting systems for the newly constructed campus. At the new 3,000-seat church, with a choir that seats between 250 and 300 people the church had needs for a system that could back their powerful worship.

MICS ON HIGH

"We started out with a mic that was not producing well for us," said Temple Baptist Church's media director, Dan Drennen. "During services, we couldn't hear the choir when we moved into this new building and the service just didn't have the same energy that it used to." To fix the problem, Drennen did some research and asked for recommendations from one of the three integration companies on the installation project, Technical Resources Group (TRG). TRG sent over a few demo units and the church brought the choir in for some rehearsals in order to fully and accurately test the demo mics.

"After testing out several microphones, we settled on the AKG C414 for a couple of reasons," said Drennen. "These units have the volume we need so we got lots of gain before feedback with them. Secondly, it gave the body (reproductive audio quality) to the choir that we were looking for. A lot of the other microphones we tried had plenty of volume, but they didn't have the body. The AKG mics have a fullness that the others didn't offer."

Rick Greenlee, partner at Technical Resource Group, concurred with Drennen's goals for the choir mic. "They have a fairly large choir that from day one really couldn't be heard," said Greenlee. "They brought in the AKG C414 and everyone in the audience noticed the difference. The AKG C414's high gain before feedback and natural sound were the qualities that sold the church."