Worship Audio Production
Church Audio: The Audio Engineer’s Essential Tool Kit
I’ve been blessed to run sound in a lot of different places outside of my home church. In my experiences, I’ve discovered that there’s a few things that you will invariably find yourself needing. The items listed below are in no particular order and are now part of the gear I take to any audio…
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Church Audio: Deeper musical experience…Don’t let the musicians have all the fun.
Church Audio: Deeper musical experience…Don’t let the musicians have all the fun. In becoming a lifelong student of audio, it is always to your benefit to broaden your musical experience. Recording your main service worship band can push you toward that goal. Not that you plan on going platinum or getting any Dove awards any…
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Studio Teamwork
Studio Teamwork Many times over I have been asked what it is like to record in a studio. Those questions bring to mind a harmonious and memorable Christian experience to say the least. We were blessed to have some extraordinary musicians and technicians involved from start to finish. I would be remiss if I said…
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Church Audio Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Church Audio Why can’t we be friends? Today’s post is about ‘sibling rivalry’, at least of a sort… Everywhere I’ve gone I have noticed the chasm that exists between two worlds. For the sake of brevity and alliteration I’ll call them ‘tech’ and ‘talent’. If you’ve spent any time at all in any kind of…
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Church Audio Digital Mixers
Church Audio Digital Mixers There is no question digital mixers are having a profound impact on the pro audio world and this impact is also in the church world as well. The cost of digital mixers have reduced significantly and many companies are making low end digital mixers which come in very cheap. Looking…
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Church Audio: Mixing is NOT…
The art of Chruch Audio mixing is something I have studied and practiced for the majority of my life. During my 20+ years of experience here are a few things I have learned that audio mixing is not: Mixing modern worship sound is NOT a personal attack on any musician or singer. It is the…
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Church Audio: Clear as Mud…
today’s post concerns a bit of a pet peeve of mine. i promise to try to keep my inner snark as under control as possible. apologies in advance if i don’t achieve great success with that. what i want to talk about today is ‘how to communicate information regarding sound in a concise and intelligible…
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Church Audio: The Match Game
okay, today’s post is gonna be short and [hopefully] sweet. i wanted to talk about a mistake i see an awful lot of churches make with their sound systems. simply put, i see an awful lot of systems whose components don’t ‘match’. i don’t mean color. and i don’t mean something technical like ‘impedance’ or…
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The Importance of a Full Runthrough
okay, i had an interesting morning this morning and it inspired me to post a little note… this sunday we were doing a special song ‘beauty from pain’ [by superchick]. my lovely and talented wife had prepared a video for this and so the band was playing ‘locked to video’ using a click track on…
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in my last post i talked a little about the finer points of in-ear monitors. this time around we’re gonna get even finer. [more fine?] there are a couple of inherent hazards in dealing with in-ear monitors. one of them affects singers [and sometimes horn players], and can be a particularly pesky issue to deal…
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