JBL Professional, in partnership with Spectrum Sound and Athey Creek Church, delivered concert-quality sound for the first-ever PDX Crusade at Portland’s Moda Center in America.
The large-scale worship and evangelism event drew thousands of attendees and featured performances on Saturday by Cain, Taya, Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes, with Anne Wilson, Chris Tomlin, and Zach Williams closing the event on Sunday.
Planning for the PDX Crusade began nearly 18 months ago, with Athey Creek Church envisioning a two-day gathering with the Portland community. Athey Creek’s congregation has grown into the tens of thousands, and hosting an evangelistic outreach event for the community required a much larger venue. With a capacity of nearly 20,000, the Moda Center was an ideal choice but also raised production demands to the level of a major arena tour. Meeting those expectations required the expertise of Spectrum Sound and a JBL VTX system powerful enough to perform on par with touring rigs used by today’s top artists.
Spectrum Sound designed and deployed a JBL VTX A Series system tailored to the needs of the venue and the touring artists. The system included 14 VTX A12 out fills per side, 18 VTX A12 front hangs per side, 30 VTX B28 subwoofers flown and ground-stacked, 16 VTX A8 cabinets per side for 270-degree coverage, 12 VTX A8 cabinets per side for backfill, and VTX A8 front fills, powered by Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amplifiers.