I was sitting at our small front of house mixing position at the Kemper Center Simmons Auditorium for the Snowflake Jazz concert. The auditorium was built in the the late 1800′s. We were told that the acoustics and power were quite a challenge. They are! We did our usual scouting trip and noted the challenges. [...]
Soundman/woman, what are the main skills you need so that the overall service or event is as best as can be technically achieved? We tech folks typically really concentrate on tech things and can easily get absorbed into the gear, settings, and tweaking everything. Some of this is needed to achieve excellence. But those non-tech [...]
Below is the answer to one simple question. Now this puts the 80/20 rule back into perspective! From Brian: We talked about most of this on the phone, but HH2 will also give you a compressor for Marcus! I would assume Marcus will come out front (and is ideal to get him separate from the [...]
What does it take to come up to speed for everything, sound wise, to flawlessly execute a large churches contemporary worship service? Much more than most people realize! My wife and I joined the church this past May that Brian is the Audio Director for. I ran sound under his watchful eye for the first [...]
Freedom Fest on Saturday August 21st was the first event that we used the Allen and Heath ML5000 48 channel mixer. Multiple bands with many styles are perfect for a higher channel setup. We setup stage with six channels of DI, six various instrument mic’s, ten drum mic’s and six vocal mic’s. We had five [...]
This past Sunday was the first day I was assigned to do sound in our churches Video Venue service. This service is held in the youth auditorium, the H2O Auditorium which is named after the youth group. The Video Venue service has it’s own worship team and then we watch a video recorded earlier in [...]
For the last several years we have discussed getting a larger mixer based on the larger events we’ve run sound for. We also need to expand our speaker system, but we have rental options if needed for that and our system hangs in there for most events. We started with some basic requirements: 48 channels [...]
I’m sitting here next to Brian who is mixing the Brian Harris Band at one of the Twilight Jazz nights along beautiful Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Clouds seem to be all around us with a few minor drops of rain, but so far so good – the power of prayer in action! Even with [...]
From the heat of Arizona to hot events in Wisconsin, July is a very busy month. Our Arizona installation appears to be working well. As of several weeks ago the church was very happy with the sound quality and capabilities. We arrived back in Milwaukee around midnight, got to bed around 2 a.m. And back [...]
What is the goal of the church technical team? To enable and enhance the worship experience so that the following can be a reality (Sean Feucht blog post 2/20/09): But as we began to sing together and flood the atmosphere with the goodness, glory and truth of who HE is, I could see frequencies and [...]