Bringing Clarity Back to Worship at Brookside Church

Fort Wayne, IN – [03.2026] – Atom Integration recently completed a major sound system upgrade at Brookside Church featuring a new JBL VTX A6 line array system designed to deliver consistent coverage, improved intelligibility, and a more balanced listening experience throughout the worship center.

The church’s previous sound system consisted of an older EAW point source system powered by Crown amplifiers and a London BLU DSP platform that had served the church for many years. After roughly two decades of use, portions of the system were beginning to show age-related reliability concerns while the room itself continued to present significant coverage challenges. Due to the width of the space and limitations of the previous point source design, there was a dramatic difference in listening experience between the front rows, middle seating areas, and rear of the room. Even the sound booth fell outside of the intended coverage pattern, making accurate mixing more difficult.

To solve these challenges, Atom Integration designed a new system using JBL Venue Synthesis to model coverage specifically for the room. The result was a JBL VTX A6 line array system featuring four hangs of five A6 loudspeakers designed to provide significantly more consistent coverage across the worship center, while a pair of JBL B28 subwoofers added low-frequency support for music and worship.

The system is powered by two Crown I-Tech 4|3500HD amplifiers and one Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifier, providing advanced DSP processing, system monitoring, and long-term reliability.

As part of the project, Atom Integration also upgraded Brookside Church’s existing Allen & Heath Avantis console with dPack processing while updating the console to Avantis 2.0. This upgrade expanded the console’s processing capabilities and added additional tools to better support worship services and live production.

Once installation was complete, the system was tuned and commissioned using Rational Acoustics SMAART to ensure the real-world performance aligned with the original design goals established in JBL Venue Synthesis. The end result is a dramatically more consistent listening experience throughout the room, with improved clarity, more even coverage, and a system designed to provide a similar listening experience from the front row to the back of the worship center.