Grace Baptist Church - Santa Clarita

Architect: Lefler & Associates
Consultant: Sound Technology Consultants
Installation: AMT Systems Inc.
Engineering: AMT Systems Inc.

The new 2200 seat Worship Center at Grace Baptist Church is a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the current campus ministries with the infrastructure to expand with the growth of the Church.

The Grace Baptist hilltop campus, begun in the mid-nineties after the church outgrew its original site in historic Placerita Canyon area of the Santa Clarita Valley, now features a sizeable office and classroom facility, a conference center facility, the new Worship Center, an outdoor amphitheatre, and sufficient parking for its active all-day schedule of activities.

AMT Systems began its association with Grace Baptist during the construction phase of the first building at the new site – a multi-room conference center that served as a temporary worship space during the first years on this new site. The design provides a large open space divisible into five ballrooms served by individually controllable ceiling speaker systems in each ballroom that are combined with a centralized exploded cluster system that is used when the entire space is opened for an event. Video presentation is also available in this facility.

The sound system in the new Worship space is a remarkable utilization of both analog and digital signal technology to provide outstanding reinforcement of the varying requirements of the church’s contemporary, blended, and tradition worship services A Yamaha PM1D large format mix console is digitally connected to the PC-based MediaMatrix digital signal processing and routing electronics which provide signal to matrixed left, center and right channel main speaker clusters as well as balcony delays, front fill speakers, and subwoofers.
The Worship Center video system is centrally controlled by a matrixed router with seamless outputs feeding a high light output LCD projector on a 26 foot wide rear projection screen above the rear of the platform and a series of lobby plasma screens. Additional router outputs feed stage monitors and an MATV system for additional rooms in the building.