Beyond the Screens - RelianceAV

Oakland Presbyterian Church AVL Systems

Just on the other side of the popular downtown Winter Garden area lies the quiet little town of Oakland, which looks like a step back in time. It is there where we spent a few weeks updating the AVL systems in the Oakland Presbyterian Church.

The A included JBL Professional CBT 1000 Line Array, which are tucked into the organ chambers, JBL Pro ASB6115 Subwoofers, Crown Audio Amplifier and BSS Processing. Treating the walls is essential to warm up the sound in these tall hard surface spaces. Their Primacoustic Acoustic Panels will complement the speakers nicely. This new system gives them even and full sound coverage no matter where you are seated.

The V features two 98” Samsung displays facing the congregation as well as a 55” confidence monitor. To reach their streaming audience, PTZOptics Cameras and Audio-Technica USA Shotgun Microphones were installed. Aurora desktop Touch Panels are being used for control.

And the L. The Electronic Theatre Controls ColorSource Jrs. and ColorSource PAR V are filling the chancel with bright, even, customizable lighting including an Echo Inspire Button Station.

This charming little church will have a whole new feel for their services. It was a pleasure working in their beautiful sanctuary.

Lake Wales Bok Academy North Charter School

We were honored to have been chosen as the audio, visual & stage lighting contractor of the auditorium in the historic renovation of the Lake Wales Charter Schools, Edward W. Bok Academy North 1919 Building. What they went through to breathe life back into this charming building is so admirable, a true labor of love.

Nothing makes Chet & the team happier than making the most out of the sound and lighting in an educational performance theatre space.

Their new AVL system features:

Blizzard Lighting Colorise Par top, Electronic Theatre Controls Color Source Spot Jr’s. , ROSE BRAND drapes, JBL Professional AC 266 & CBT 1000 speakers, Sennheiser EWD mics, Crown amp, Biamp Community stage monitors, Appotronicx 13K lumen projector, Screen Innovations Solo 3 – 200″ screen, ALLEN & HEATH U-6 digital mixer.

Addition Financial Videowall and Conferencing

Addition Financial Credit Union recently installed all of their furniture which allowed us to put the finishing touches on their impressive integrated conference room audio visual system. This 135″ EZ LED Visual Co., Ltd. video wall in a showstopper. Seamless, bright and clear from any angle. We completed their system with JBL Professional ceiling speakers, Shure square ceiling array microphones,@Lumens auto tracking cameras & Barco ClickShare. Primacoustic acoustic panels were added to give the room a nice tight sound.

The icing on the cake was to have had this project featured in System Contractor News and a case study with Lumens.

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City of Clermont Performing Arts Center

We were honored to have been chosen by City of Clermont Government to update the mainstage lighting system in their Clermont Performing Arts Center. Their goal was to enhance the performance capabilities of the venue with modern, energy-efficient lighting solutions that enhanced the technical and aesthetic potential.

Now, they can have some colorful fun with their energy efficient, user friendly, fully customizable systems on the stage as well as the house lighting.

For the house lighting, we replaced their 30, 750-watt par fixtures with Blizzard Lighting Motif Risplendi LED Architectural Pendant/

House Lights. The stage was upgraded from 30, 750-watt par fixtures with 15 Blizzard Lighting Colorize EXA LED wash lights. Not only will they have great creative control, but they will also realize a massive energy savings and heat reduction.

Markham Woods Presbyterian Church Sound and Camera Systems

The team did a fantastic job with a sound and camera upgrade installation at Markham Woods Presbyterian Church.

They were struggling a bit with the sound and video quality in their sanctuary. They had nice speakers, just weren’t quite right for their space, it was time for a refresh. We chose a JBL Professional CBT 1000 Line Array Column and JBL Pro 5212 Loudspeakers, which gives them remarkable sound quality for their services. It is also a much lower profile to the large speaker cluster they had previously. The great thing is, their old speakers had a lot of life left in them, we were able to repurpose them in their fellowship hall.

Higher video quality PTZOptics cameras were installed in the front and back of the sanctuary. This will give their streaming feeds a much brighter and clearer picture.

Chet and the team really enjoy working in the House of Worship space. The facilities are a good kind of challenging, but very rewarding. And the clients are always lovely people, this project was no exception.

Port Orange City Hall

The Port Orange City Hall made a substantial improvement to the sound quality of their Lakeside Community Center with the addition of 48 acoustic panels by #PrimeAcoustic

Larger spaces are overwhelmed with long echoes and never-ending reverberation that reflect off concrete walls, glass windows, tiled floors. In these reverberant spaces, sound energy builds up to the point where it over-excites the room. You end up with a massive wall of trapped sound energy competing for the listener’s attention. These stressful challenges cause visitors to expend an abundance of energy just trying to hear or be heard.

Absorbing sound energy is the key to creating improved communication and a comfortable environment.

For the city of Port Orange, we created an acoustic model of their space to effectively design attractive acoustic wall panels that absorb and lower the room noise and vastly improves the intelligibility and communication.

The Ribbon Is Cut & The Doors Are Open!

On September 15, 2020 Seminole County Chamber organized a grand opening ribbon cutting event for us. Wow! What a great day of support and new connections!

There were some great technology solution demos.

Direct View LED displays. Indoor and outdoor LED displays featuring several types tailored towards installation in house of worship, gymnasiums, and corporate interior settings.

Loudspeaker presentations for scalable sound system solutions for small churches to auditoriums to full stadiums and everything in between.

The very latest in paging, BGM, bell, and messagin g solutions for entire corporate facilities, schools, hospitals, and airports.

Conferencing camera, microphone, and speaker solutions for the remote workforce and distance learning. And the presentation technology to keep that employee or student engaged!

Thank you to Bencsik Associates & Kor Media for putting our opening over the top with your stellar demo contributions!

And a big thanks to American Office Source for the great new shirt designs & useful branded giveaways for us at a moments notice.

We shared some delicious food, invited folks to sign our chalkboard wall guest book & introduced guests to our team (Chet, Rhonda, Eddie, Zane, AJ & Ashley ). It was a perfect day!

We have lived in Seminole County for over 30 years. For the past two decades, it seemed like the audiovisual projects were out of town more often than not. We are ready to make ourselves known in our own backyard, support our hometown community. We are committed to being Seminole County and the Greater Orlando area’s premier Commercial Design and Install AV Provider.

Welcome to RelianceAV – our doors are open! #AskChet

Welcome to RelianceAV

We have exciting news! We would like to announce the grand opening of a new audiovisual integration firm in the Greater Orlando area. Chet Neal brings you, RelianceAV.

When you work with, or for, Chet Neal you hear the sentence “I don’t know, ask Chet” all day. That is the sign of someone that knows his craft. Chet has been in the AV industry in some form since his college days when he was the sound engineer and stage manager of Ohio University’s Memorial Auditorium. His professional career took him to Disney where he worked first as an audio tech at Pleasure Island, then as the tech manager of Animal Kingdom’s opening crew. After, as he says, “the pixie dust wore off”, he found himself in Integration where he’s built an impressive reputation of not only being extremely knowledgeable, but also easy to work with and an all-around good guy.

So, when you are looking to install, update or give your Audio Visual System a tune up, you too can simply, Ask Chet, Founder & President of RelianceAV