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  • Friday, February 01, 2013
    Church Sound: Data Backups Aren’t Just About Backing Up
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    Brian Gowing 02/01/13 10:25 AM,
    This article is provided by Gowing Associates.   You’ve read all the stories about losing your valuable data on a computer. Maybe you’ve experienced a loss of data. Whatever the reason, you’ve been convinced that backing up your data is the best possible protection against data loss. You’ve set up a scheduled backup either locally on an external drive/CD/DVD or you’re using one of the many online backup services. You keep multiple versions of the most important files and you… View this story
    Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Business • Networking • Remote

  • Wednesday, December 12, 2012
    Church Sound: (Sort Of) Standard Console Channel Assignments
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    Brian Gowing 12/12/12 03:17 PM,
    This article is provided by Gowing Associates.   While there is no truly defined industry standard in laying out the channel assignments for live sound, there are general layouts that a lot of live audio veteran engineers utilize with minor modifications. Typically when laying out channels, the process begins at drums, and then, in order, keyboard, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, any other instrument not covered, and finally, vocals. Put recorded stuff like CD/DVD players, iPods and computers at the end.… View this story
    Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Analog • Consoles • Digital • Ethernet • Mixer • Technician

  • Monday, February 13, 2012
    Church Sound Techs As Musicians
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    Brian Gowing 02/13/12 04:29 PM,
    This article is provided by Gowing Associates.   When I’m training technical teams at the churches I work with, one of the first questions I ask is, “Do any of you play a musical instrument?” I usually get one or two people who say that they play some type of instrument. But it’s a trick question, because the next question I ask usually results in silence while they take it in: “Do you realize that the sound board is every… View this story
    Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Business • Education • Engineer • Mixer • Sound Reinforcement • Technician • Audio

  • Tuesday, February 07, 2012
    Church Sound: How To Transition From Analog To Digital Mixing
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    Brian Gowing 02/07/12 11:53 AM,
    This article is provided by Gowing Associates.   I’m in the process of helping one of my churches transition from an analog mixer to a digital mixer. They were in need of more channels than their Allen & Heath 16-channel MixWiz with some outboard gear (front of house EQ, couple of compressors, effects unit) could provide. Based on the maximum number of channels that they anticipated needing over the next five years, I recommended the PreSonus StudioLive 24.4, one of… View this story
    Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Poll • Analog • Consoles • Digital • Engineer • Sound Reinforcement • Technician