USA - Gateway Church is a Christian megachurch in Southlake, Texas, that opened a new campus in November of 2010 with a main auditorium that seats 4000. Gateway's lighting director Kyle Russelburg had three factors in mind when looking for a lighting system for the new facility: shooting for TV/web broadcast in HD, lighting for unique services, and hosting conferences throughout the year.
"We needed a lighting system that was going to hold up to the work load as well as a system that was flexible and would give us the ability to give us multiple design options," he explains. "Once I had the overall design down, we turned to Acoustic Dimensions to carry out the majority of the infrastructure and backbone."
Russelburg found what he was looking for in a large Martin Professional lighting system made up of 12 MAC III Profile, 16 MAC III Performance, six MAC 2000 Beam XB, nine MAC 2000 Wash XB, six MAC 700 Profile and 12 MAC 250 Entour moving heads along with 66 Stagebar54L and 36 Tripix 1200 linear LED luminaires. Mid-air projection haze is from four Jem K1 Hazers. Complementing the lighting system are digital graphics and video from a Maxedia PRO media server across upstage Martin LC Plus 1140 and 2140 LED panels.
Russelburg describes Gateway as an active church with the fixtures operating about 10 hours a day, seven days a week. "With running these fixtures at this rate I have been very happy with their reliability. I pretty much just change lamps and keep on going."
