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LightViper™ For Chattanooga’s Precept
Ministries International
Annapolis Junction, MD, January,7 2008 —
FiberPlex, Inc., announced that their LightViper™ audio transport
system was recently acquired by Precept Ministries of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The international Bible study aids organization installed the advanced
fiber optic audio system from their main auditorium – which is
used as a production studio – to their TV and radio production
control rooms and various audio/video production suites located in a
separate building on the 32-acre pastoral campus. The evangelical organization’s
daily Bible study TV program reaches 94 million worldwide households.
The conduits that link the auditorium to the production building are
approximately 800 feet long. A standard Model 1832 “plug n’
play” LightViper fiber optic audio “snake” system
with two splits was specified by Precept’s 20-year veteran Audio
Engineer, Tom Byrd.
Byrd commented on the organization’s investment
in fiber audio routing technology:
“We use the LightViper to connect all audio between our A/V buildings.
We typically use six wireless microphones plus other hardwired stage
microphones connected to the LightViper’s stage box backstage
in the auditorium. The main output of this stage box feeds up the hill
through 900 feet of fiber to the media building’s Master Control
gear room. These audio feeds are then routed to various audio control
rooms to feed video machines. We use the eight audio returns on the
LightViper to route stage announce communications as well as other audio
feeds ‘back down the hill’ and patch as necessary to the
auditorium and classrooms. A split from the LIghtViper stage box also
feeds the FOH console for auditorium audio.
The audio engineer added:
“We now have really clean audio feeds between all locations, without
any digital glitches or any of the previous problems we had with long
runs of analog signals. We have eliminated all grounding hums since
we no longer connect with copper between the two buildings; our audio
was routed with conventional snakes through the same conduit runs which
caused constant signal and noise problems. The LightViper has made a
dramatic improvement in our production work. The new fiber system also
enables us to feed many more signals as needed between the main buildings.”
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Photos Attached (2): Suggested captions:
Photo 1: Precept Ministries Audio Engineer, Tom Byrd,
shown backstage at the organization’s main auditorium with a LightViper
1832 stagebox head-end.
Photo 2: Precept Ministries main auditorium for live
TV broadcasting. The LIghtViper system connects the stage to routing
systems in Production Master Control located in a production/studio
building 900 feet away.
Editor’s Technical Notes:
Fiberplex manufactures the LightViper fiber optic audio cable transport
systems. The LightViper systems offer total signal path isolation between
both stage and mixer as well as between the mixer and power amplification;
the cable is totally immune to ground loops, RFI, EMI and electromechanical
noise, and runs of up to 1 1/4 miles (6,600 feet) can be easily accomplished
without signal loss or degradation. FiberPlex includes a limited lifetime
warranty with all of its LightViper system components.
Additional information can be obtained at www.fiberplex.com
or www.lightviper.com.
Additional story Link: http://www.precept.org
NOTE: LightViper™ is a registered trademark of FiberPlex, Inc.
Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.
—For more information, contact Ron Neilson, Clyne Media, Inc.:
Tel: (615) 500-3261;
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