If your church is dealing with wireless microphone dropouts, static in your in-ear monitors, or constant RF coordination headaches, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common issues we hear about from churches who reach out to Churchfront for help.
The frustration is real. Dropouts are distracting for your congregation, and static or cutting out monitors make it nearly impossible for your musicians and vocalists to perform confidently. When your wireless gear isn’t working reliably, it doesn’t matter how good your content is—the technical issues become the story.
The Common Problem We See
Many churches are running older wireless systems—maybe some Line 6 units with mismatched antennas—that worked fine years ago but are now causing constant problems. The wireless landscape has gotten more crowded, and systems that used to work “well enough” are now completely unreliable.
We recently worked with a church that was dealing with exactly this scenario. They had old wireless units scattered around, outdated antennas, and zero wireless in-ear monitors. Their audio team was getting increasingly frustrated trying to manage the RF coordination, and their musicians were stuck with floor wedges that made mixing in the room incredibly difficult.
Our Rock-Solid Solution: RF Venue
The solution we’ve been implementing across our church installations is the RF Venue line of products—specifically their Distro antennas and Combiner antennas. It’s become our go-to recommendation because it simply works.
For this particular church, we upgraded them to Shure microphones (the SLX line of wireless mics and body packs) along with Shure PSM 300 wireless in-ear monitoring systems. This was actually their first experience with in-ears, moving away from complete reliance on floor wedges.
How We Install It: The Antenna Placement
Here’s where RF Venue really shines—their Architectural antennas. These look great in any worship space because they’re designed to blend into your walls. You can mount them in black or white, or even paint them to match your wall color.
At this church, we had an interesting installation challenge. One side of their stage has a beautiful brick wall, and our install team didn’t want to drill through that stone facade. So instead, they attached a piece of Unistrut coming down from a rig point above the drop ceiling, then mounted the Architectural antenna to that. Problem solved.
Normally though, these antennas are incredibly easy to mount into standard drywall with anchors. You fish the cable through the back, and you’re done. The antenna itself kind of disappears into the architecture of the room while providing excellent coverage across the entire stage.
For this installation, one antenna serves as the Distro (you can tell because it has the A/B antenna connections), and the other antenna—tucked behind a fan—serves as the Combiner for the in-ear monitors. With these positioned properly, the musicians get flawless wireless in-ear monitor performance with zero dropouts or static.
The Rack Setup: Simple and Expandable
Back in their audio rack room, we installed three Shure SLX quad units. Even though it looks like six units in the rack, it’s actually only three—but they’re providing 12 channels of wireless microphones. That’s the beauty of the quad units.
Here’s how the RF Venue gear ties it all together:
For the wireless microphones: We’re using the RF Venue Distro 5. All of those wireless mics are powered and distributed through this single unit. Two RG8X lines run from this unit out to the wall-mounted Distro antenna.
For the in-ear monitors: We’re using the RF Venue Combine 8. The signal goes the opposite direction here—from the rack out to the stage. Right now they’re running four channels of PSM 300s, but this Combine 8 could handle up to eight total channels if they wanted to expand.
The expandability is built right in. This church could technically add two more quad units (giving them eight more wireless microphones) or add four more in-ear systems, all on the same RF infrastructure.
Why This Setup Works
What I love about RF Venue is the simplicity. Everything is really plug-and-play—it just works. You don’t have to do extensive programming at the RF Venue side of things.
Our team does handle all the RF coordination on the front end. We scan the room for available RF frequencies and coordinate everything using Shure’s Wireless Workbench software. But once the RF Venue gear is installed and configured, it’s rock solid.
The result? No more dropouts. No more static. No more last-minute scrambling on Sunday morning when wireless gear decides not to cooperate. Just clean, reliable wireless performance that lets your team focus on leading worship instead of troubleshooting technical issues.
If your church is struggling with RF infrastructure problems, the RF Venue line of products is worth serious consideration. It’s become our standard recommendation because we’ve seen it eliminate these issues consistently across multiple installations.
