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Thursday, October 04, 2012
Chris Huff 10/04/12 06:29 PM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. Does your mix suffer from these four common mix maladies? If it does, that’s OK because there is a remedy for each one. The next worship service could be your best sounding mix. There are different mixes a sound tech must create depending on the congregational preferences and pastoral requirements. Using an example with a very wide mix difference, a mix for a “hip” youth group will be much different than… View this story
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Chris Huff 09/21/12 10:24 AM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. The two biggest mistakes I see sound techs make are when they tweak the mix during the entire worship set and when they never touch the mixing board during the worship set. There is a time for active mixing and there is a way you can use it to bring power to a song. Volume Balancing Volume balancing is one of the early steps in forming your mix during the sound… View this story
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Chris Huff 09/10/12 04:31 PM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. On one side of the chessboard was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. On the other side of the board was the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was 1996. Six games of chess were to be played. Which one would prevail? Chess players know success comes from the ability to think several moves ahead. A rookie might say, “If I move my rook to that spot then the bishop can take me… View this story
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Chris Huff 08/29/12 12:40 PM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. If ever there was a thorn in the side of a sound tech, it would be one labeled VOLUME. A couple of days ago, I talked about balancing the stage volume with house volume. But that’s not the volume thorn I’m discussing. I’m talking about the right house volume level. My favorite volume story comes from a sound tech working a concert. A person came up to the sound booth and… View this story
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Chris Huff 08/16/12 02:50 PM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. You are a live music remixer. Think about it, the majority of songs performed during a church service are interpretations of the original. They are new arrangements. They are played with more musicians, less musicians, different instruments, no instruments, or in different music keys. It’s your job to take this new arrangement and make it sound great. I hadn’t really thought about it as remixing until recently. A few days ago,… View this story
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Chris Huff 08/08/12 10:52 AM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. “One [button] to rule them all, One [button] to find them, One [button] to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” OK, so the mute button doesn’t have the same power as The Ring from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it can be your greatest tool when it comes to volume balancing. Volume balancing is the process of setting sound levels in proper relationship to each other… View this story
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
Chris Huff 08/02/12 11:11 AM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. A room lacking sound absorption material can be a nightmare for mixing. I’ve mixed in a few of these rooms myself. From what I’ve found, a number of you mix in such rooms on a regular basis. In fact, the most common question I get is, “what the best way to mix in a gymnasium?” A gymnasium has: —Concrete walls—Hardwood floors—And ceilings open to the steel rafters My first thought is… View this story
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Chris Huff 07/19/12 08:28 AM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. How do you decide upon a stage setup? That’s the question recently posed to me by a reader. It’s a simple question that leads to a simple, yet lengthy response. Setting up a stage is more than just placing gear and placing people, it’s all about… ...consistency. The email included this statement: “Most of the time we just show up to church and spend a lot of time just trying to… View this story
Filed in: Production • Church Sound • Feature • Study Hall • Production • Audio • Backline • Rigging • Staging • Concert • Education • Interconnect • Monitoring • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • System -
Monday, July 16, 2012
Chris Huff 07/16/12 08:57 AM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. Do you ask the right questions when evaluating your music mix? Find out the questions you need to ask and when you must ask them during your mixing process. You need to evaluate your mix throughout the mix-building process. This isn’t to say you aren’t doing that as a natural part of the process. There is a time, however, when it’s good to take your hands off the mixer and listen. … View this story
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Monday, July 09, 2012
Chris Huff 07/09/12 01:59 PM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. What would you do if more and more people started complaining about the volume? Would you consider it a congregational movement to kick you out of the sound booth? Would you take it personally? Would you consider it might be a result of an evolving congregation? Reading through my email this week, I found a letter from a congregation member regarding the sound level at their church. Quite surprised that it… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Training • Engineer • Mixer • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • Technician
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