Temple Beth El
Temple Beth El - Providence, Rhode Island
Located in the historic East Side neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, Temple Beth El has served the city's Jewish community since 1849. Today, the Temple's founders would be surprised to know that their synagogue houses some cutting-edge sound reinforcement technology, namely Yamaha digital mixing consoles and AMX automation devices. In addition to services, Beth El serves celebrations of weddings, confirmations, remembrances, High Holy Days, B'nei Mitzvah and is also a concert venue, hosting traditional and contemporary Jewish musical events.
The system is designed around a distributed PA, two Yamaha 01V digital mixing consoles and an AMX Axcent 3 control system with an AXD-CA10 10" color touch panel. This color active-matrix LCD panel provides interactive graphic images that respond to the user's touch. The sound system needed to be transparent, and it had to be multi-purpose. The staff also wanted a system that was easy to operate and would be consistent. Those needs played a big influence on equipment choices.
The AMX has various services imprinted in the memory-Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, funeral and the like. It also gives the user a visual on the touch screen, so it's very easy to operate. When one of the staff members selects a service, the 01Vs' recalls mic inputs, levels and EQ-work. Additionally, the Rabbi's and Cantor's mics are on manual override, and all scenes can be re-adjusted.
