If you are into church sound, then I hope you have discovered ‘Behind The Mixer’ It’s a great site, and community (mostly via the Facebook group) for church sound guys. They just posted an article today about speaker placement, and if you have the time, read the whole thing here. Otherwise, let me summarise: 1. …
In the early part of 2017 after many years of searching, GodFirst Church Fourways finally found a new, permanent venue to have church. As part of the staff team I have been involved in the planning process, right from conception to architects plans, demolition of the previous internal structures and the construction of the new …
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Over and over again I read questions in forums and Facebook groups, asking “What do you use for…” or “Can anyone recommend free/cheap software to…” I thought I would compile a little list of tools that I use for various things, most free, some cheap, some not so cheap… Anyway here goes: Downloading YouTube Videos …
I’ve just been reading this article from PSW this morning on the line check, and realised that I have not written anything on this blog on sound check… http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/church_sound_methods_for_doing_system_line_checks/ Here is a document i’ve recently revised for a training evening i’ve got coming up next week. It is focussed on a GodFirst site that uses …
I’ve recently had a request from a friend for some advice on recording some demo songs. I’ve spent quite a bit of time writing a response, so thought I wouldn’t waste it on just one person, so here it is for the world! You are probably going to do the recording and mixing on a …
So this weekend I observed a mic stand in use… (crowd goes ooohhh) It seems to be becoming a trend for me to see something in use, and being used wrong, and I am inspired to write about it… so today, its the mic stand! If you don’t know what a mic stand is, then …
So I’ve recently bought several DI boxes for the city churches, and replaced dodgy ones at Monte and Bryanston, and I was perusing the ProSoundWeb newsletter when I came across this article. It is not strictly about DI’s but it contains some good insight into why we use them. Give it a read!!!
Its proving flipping hard for me to get round to writing much on here lately… I am working on my own stuff, but for now here is a link to a great article on prosoundweb. If you aren’t already signed up with them, you should! They post great articles on all aspects of sound …
Welcome to 2011!!! Today I would write a short article about the stage monitors we use at GodFirst. Although there may be some variations at some of the battalions, the monitor of choice for us is the Wharfedale EVP-X12PM It is a powered 12″300W wedge monitor, and there are 3 reasons that we choose this …
I haven’t written for ages, and now I’m off on holiday, so its not going to happen for a while! I thought I would leave with a thought that I had today… How far are you prepared to go to ‘save the show’? I’ve heard many crazy stories about the lengths that engineers go …