As an audio engineer, your job is to take all of the material from the band and singers, and assemble it all together to make 1 collective piece… like a puzzle. Too often though, the “pieces” we’re given are from totally different puzzles, so you end up trying to get them all to fit together the best you can in the 4-minute soundcheck you have, right before the service… all while trying to change batteries in the wirelesses, tape down the cables running across the platform and setting up the audio-to-video recording feed.

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Here’s a quick link to an article at Pro Sound News on recording a show live and selling it on USB immediately after. The YouTube video is interesting.

(Blogged from my iPhone)

The Elms Last Show

I spent 8 years on the road with these guys. Sad to see it end, but when 1 thing ends, new exciting things can begin.

It’s a great thing that technology has become more and more affordable. A console 3-feet wide can now do more than all the gear you could cram in a 20′ x 10′ FOH area! Digital boards, smaller circuitry, computer-assisted all means many more sophisticated tools right at your fingertips, for the church audio guy to either masterfully shape your worship band mix… or destroy it by trying to use every tool available! This topic alone could be a book, but I’m going to focus in on one specific tool that I think gets waaaaay overused: Mute Groups, or Scenes (depending on your board).

You might think this post is secretly sponsored by some pharmaceutical company. It’s not. Keeping the stage clean looking and the cables organized has much less to do with obsessive compulsive disorder, and much more to do with professionalism.

Does you stage stay set up week to week? Is it a pain if your church has a wedding and you need to strike the stage and set it back up before Sunday? Perhaps you meet in a gym or another site that requires you bring in and set up your entire system each week.