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These past few weeks have been quite action packed for me. I drove to Long Beach to demo the DiGiCo SD9 at a local DiGiCo dealer in mid March. I should state that I didn't actually demo the SD9...
Right now as a church, we are starting the process of moving to a digital desk. That means I get to drool on lots of really expensive gear. Or, so I thought. Turns out that our budget is...
The first thing you won't see at NAMM is me. I went two years ago with a friend who is a vocalist and a keyboard player. It was a cornucopia of all things musical and geeky. Unfortunately,...
Many live sound engineers will not understand this problem, with the exception of those working in small clubs or in churches where the stage volume of musicians can be an issue to the experience that is being...
It has been fairly industry standard to put an SM57 in front of a guitar cabinet for decades now. In the recording studio world, most guys would say that if you can't get a guitar amp to...
There are different ways to create space in a mix. You can do it by panning sources from the center to one side to the other to create space. Other times the sounds themselves are in conflict...
We’ve all been there before. We’re halfway through sound check, we’ve done our gain structure and we’re neck deep in EQ’ing and compressing and level balancing all our sources to create a fabulous mix. Sadly, though, it’s not working....
I was sitting in a church all-staff lunch, much like we do every Tuesday afternoon. This really is a time to get to catch up with other people on staff we normally don’t see or interface with on a...
In the world of mixing for churches, much of mixing is sound reinforcement, that is, you are adding volume to what is already coming from the stage. In situations like this, miking the guitar amps, the...
You don’t have to be in this business long to find out that if you get ten sound guys in a room, you will hear eleven different opinions. The old adage of, “there are no rules, just good sound”...