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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Mike Sessler 05/07/13 01:35 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. The topic for this article came out of a very real conversation I had with my new audio volunteers. We got to talking about various signal levels that we deal with in the world of audio, and it became very clear that they had not yet been exposed to any of this nomenclature. I figured it’s entirely possible that some of you are unclear on what all these terms may mean as well.… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Education • Interconnect • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Power • Signal -
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Mike Sessler 05/01/13 10:45 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. It happens to all of us; we put a mic in a boom stand, set it to the right height, tighten the clutch and set off to the next task. When we turn around and look, the mic drooped down toward the floor like a limp noodle. We head back, tighten the clutch some more, only to find the mic will not stay put. I have been so frustrated by this phenomenon that… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Poll • Product • Microphone -
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Mike Sessler 04/18/13 04:58 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. I’ll admit it. I’m spoiled. For the last several years, I’ve had the opportunity to mix on digital consoles. One of the benefits of most digital consoles is the EQ section; typically a full 4-band parametric plus a variable high-pass filter. Frankly, I’ve gotten so used to it that it’s tends to be a bit of a shock when I work on an analog desk that’s not so equipped. It occurred to me… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Consoles • Digital • Processor • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • System -
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Mike Sessler 04/09/13 09:48 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. I listen to a lot of podcasts. Several hours a week, I’m at the gym working out (which is why I’m so buff), listening to a podcast. One thing that drives me nuts is having to constantly adjust the volume on my iPhone because the level of the podcast is all over the place. I used to listen to a lot of sermons from other churches; some large churches that you would have… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Digital Audio Workstations • Mixer • Remote • Signal • Software • Studio -
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Mike Sessler 03/28/13 06:32 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to demo a new loudspeaker system in our auditorium. Our existing PA is not great; well let me rephrase that. It’s a decent PA that is completely wrong for our room, and is installed wrong. Of the 12 boxes (6 per side), 8 of them are pointed at walls, not at people. That leads to a highly reverberant sound field (something you’ve heard me talk… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Business • Engineer • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Sound Reinforcement • Technician -
Friday, March 15, 2013
Mike Sessler 03/15/13 01:28 PM,Headphone extensions have been the bane of many a sound engineer’s existence. The cables on in-ear monitors (IEMs) are never long enough to get from the musician’s head to the personal mixer, which means we need to provide some sort of extension cable. In the past, I’ve tried buying 1/4-inch headphone extensions and used 1/4-inch to 1/8-inch adapters, but those cheap, off-the-shelf adapters are very stiff and the adapters don’t always work. We’ve also tried making our own. I found… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Interconnect • Microphone • Monitoring • System -
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Mike Sessler 03/13/13 10:54 AM,If you know anything about storytelling, you know that stories have an arc. They start off with introductions, the characters and tension builds, conflict grows, we have a climax and finally a resolution. The shape of the arc can be different for each story, but the basic tenants remain. Songs typically follow an arc. We start with a musical introduction, a verse, a chorus, build to a bridge, sometimes a breakdown, then a big chorus finish followed by a resolution.… View this story
Filed in: Production • Feature • Blog • Production • Lighting • Concert • Stage -
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Mike Sessler 03/06/13 03:13 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. I know a lot of churches that mix monitors from front of house. For most of my church career, that’s been the case. To be sure, having a dedicated monitor position, console and engineer is a lot easier, but it’s not practical for most of us. And while we’d all love to have all our musicians and vocalists on in-ears, wedges still are a fact of life for many churches. For most of… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Loudspeaker • Mixer • Monitoring • Signal • Sound Reinforcement -
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Mike Sessler 02/20/13 10:11 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. The topic for today’s post comes from a reader, Jonathan Mould. He wanted to know more about the electrical side of sound. This is an interesting topic because sound is both electrical and physical. Sound systems turn physical movement of air into electrical signals, then process and amplify those signals (sometimes changing them into streams of 1s and 0s and back), and finally turn those amplified signals back into physical air movement. It’s… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Interconnect • Power • Signal • System -
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Mike Sessler 02/14/13 11:42 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. Everyone wants to go digital for their audio mixing. Whether this is necessarily a good idea for every church is a topic we’ll tackle later. For now, we’re going to look at three mixers that look like perfect fits for the small- to mid-sized church (200-800 seats or so). Two of these three mixers are fairly new—the Behringer X32 and the Roland M-200i. Meanwhile, the PreSonus StudioLIve 24.4.2 has been around a little… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Product • Production • Audio • Consoles • Digital • Mixer
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