To start, I’m writing this blog for Steve W., who posted a question on the Facebook page for A Sound Church. If you have questions, ideas, suggestions or just want to stay in touch, I invite you to that page, and also my Twitter. Being relevant to what you want to know is my #1 goal, so bring on the interactiveness.

A channel EQ will typically be either a 3-band (Highs, Mids, and Lows) or a 4-band (Highs, Hi-Mids, Lo-Mids, and Lows) EQ. The confusion starts when your board has 4 bands, yet there are 6, 8, 12+ knobs. Look at the photo in this post. This is a 4-band EQ. There are 2 knobs each for the highs and lows (red and black knobs respectively). There are also 3 knobs each for the high- and low- mids (green and blue knobs respectively).

My guess is, if you’re reading this, that you are the type that always readjusts the treble and bass in your car, trying to find that ideal setting. If you understand treble and bass and how it affects the sound, you can start to build on that and adjust the mids, or high and low mids as well.

Recently, a friend of mine asked about miking up a kick drum. Currently, their drums are all acoustic and not run through the system. The drummer plays fairly quietly though, so the church tried putting a mic on the kick. According to Mark, there was a rattle in the monitors. My first thought was, “A quiet drummer?? Is there such a thing?!”

I was not running sound at my church last week. Instead I got to sit in the congregation in about the middle of the room. Since I’m always listening critically (I can’t really help it- it’s a curse), something really jumped out at me that I wanted to pass along to you. The kick drum and bass (guitar) weren’t fighting for the same space, which is rare.

(Bonus points if you can name this band…)