Want to grow your House of Worship and have your message heard? It may be time to rethink your technology. Growing Houses of Worship aren’t only places that overflow with attendees, but also the places where people grow in community, discipleship, and faith together. It may seem unusual, but technology is a valuable tool for growing and strengthening your House of Worship. One of EDC’s clients, Church of the Risen Savior, upgraded their technology to adapt with the changing times. In Burnsville, Church of the Risen Savior holds services five times a week in a 650 seat capacity space, reaching.

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Designing a conference room that optimizes how your business operates is essential, and its impact is felt in your company’s performance daily. From holding key internal meetings to hosting client events, your conference room must be functional, dexterous, and promote creativity and productivity. How does your company strike that balance? Consider your options when you are building or updating your next conference room. Below, EDC highlights some important elements to keep in mind for creating your next conference room. Functionality Creating the right atmosphere within your conference room creates a space that inspires trust and productivity with clients and employees.

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EDC would like to share a success story from Church of the Risen Savior after we upgraded their sound system. The spouse of one of the volunteers is a well-renowned and widely published instrumental music teacher. But she suffered hearing loss/damage in her many years of teaching. In turn, she couldn’t be around really loud sound. Unfortunately, she had to sit out of the music area. The system upgrade helped blend the sound well. Now she is able to be front and center and be a part of the worship process. Risen Savior sees her smiling, happy and participating. The.

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At EDC, our technicians pride themselves on their workmanship. We want it installed right. We don’t take short cuts, we don’t leave the room till its right. We take this approach with all areas of our installations, whether it’s a flat panel, a rack, cabling or a touch panel. As AV installers, we always have precision top of mind.

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We provided and installed a brand new digital audio mixer in the Excelsior United Methodist Church in Excelsior, MN. The new mixer is positioned behind all the pews and in front of the beautiful stained glass window that spans from floor to arched ceiling. The old mixer was antiquated and this new mixer brought them up to date. They use it for choir, band and vocal sermons. The church’s music and technician team received training to ensure that they understand the new system and how to mix the audio to their specific needs. We also conducted a voice intelligibility test,.

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An (ALS) Hearing Induction Loop transmits the spoken word into a user’s hearing aid. This allows the hearing impaired to receive emergency notifications and the auditory pages made every day at MSP Airport, making the space easier to navigate for people who wear hearing aids.  

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Audio and video can be totally transformative. Think of a huge sound system blasting music at a big event, or a light show downtown. A/V brings the space and customer experience to the next level. One of our clients is a casino that wanted to transform the experience their customers were having. We helped them achieve this by upgrading their sound system. When the sound system was first installed the owners were concerned about form over function. They hung the speakers up high to keep them out of sight. But that made the content less impactful. They weren’t giving the.

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There’s a place in the TCO Performance Center for high level meetings and even entertaining new partners. The boardroom at the TCO offers a space for upper level management meetings, entertaining, teleconferencing and presentations. It was a bit tricky though. Originally the room was designed with an in-room cabinet. But during construction it was left out of the rough in. EDC rose to the occasion to offer a unique solution to this problem.  EDC redesigned this room with a ceiling pull down rack to house the main components for the teleconferencing system. This prevented the team from opening up the.

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We’re in the darkest coldest months right now. I’ve often found myself on the cold dark streets cursing the winter. Is there any relief? Well there is downtown on the recently renovated Nicollet. Electronic Design Company just completed a project that allows the  Nicollet Armature between 6th and 9th street to have synchronized lighting with a music experience. This project was the first installation of sound distribution for the Downtown Improvement District (DID). It includes 12 light poles which are fitted with professional loudspeakers. This makes the renovated Nicollet area much more vibrant and welcoming for downtown shoppers. It gives.

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In the summer of 2017, the Church of the Risen Savior was no longer satisfied with its aging sound system. So, began the move forward with their first audio update in almost three decades. Kevin Rotty, music director at the Burnsville, Minnesota-based church, was tasked with heading up the beginning steps in the process for the system upgrade. Helping with the research were some eager volunteers spec’ing different companies and equipment that would best work in the space. “One gentleman, who was retired from the airline industry, helped me put out the requests for proposals and quotes, spending almost the entire summer.

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