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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
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Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Mike Sessler 02/05/13 01:59 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. I’ve been having quite a few discussions of late as to what separates great technical artists from, well, less great ones. More specifically, the discussions have focused on the reasons it’s hard to train people to be great tech artists, and why it takes so long. You see, it’s not enough to simply know how to use the gear. In most cases, that’s the easy part. No, the real challenge is to know… View this story
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Mike Sessler 01/30/13 05:37 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) sounds like a highly abstract concept. But it’s really not. It’s also something that churches—sadly—tend to miss out on. TCO is simply a calculation of what a particular product or service is going to cost you during it’s life. It has become popular in automotive circles, with some manufacturers boasting about the fact that while their car might cost a little more to buy, it will cost less… View this story
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Mike Sessler 01/15/13 12:25 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. After sorting our input lists, stage cabling and custom boxes, the next step to optimizing our stage is not really on the stage at all. For me, the final phase is getting an optimized baseline show file for each position. In this post, we’ll be discussing audio files (in the digital world), but much of the concepts apply to lighting, presentation and video as well. The Baseline Show File When I refer to… View this story
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Thursday, January 03, 2013
Mike Sessler 01/03/13 03:01 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. So far, we’ve talked about using input sheets to simplify life (here), and drawing from those input sheets to come up with custom cables and snakes that make set up go faster (here). Sometimes you have a bunch of gear that needs to be placed on and removed from the stage every week. In those cases, I like to put it in a rack, box or other enclosure to make it go faster.… View this story
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Mike Sessler 12/17/12 06:37 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. Last time around, I talked about how input lists can make stage set up easier (here). Today, I’ll move out of the office and on to the stage. Optimize Stage Cabling Sometimes, I’m appalled by the cabling I see on church stages. There I said it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen 25- or 50-foot cables running 6 feet, with a giant rat’s nest of a coil either at the… View this story
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Mike Sessler 12/10/12 02:32 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. The other day I was talking with our assistant tech director, Jon, about our weekend process at Coast Hills. We both commented on how “dialed in” everything is, and I got to thinking about the development of that process. It really goes back a lot longer than my time here; I actually started working on this process about seven years ago. It’s been an evolution, to be sure, and the specifics of what… View this story
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Mike Sessler 11/16/12 10:30 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. A few weeks ago, Tim Cool from Visioneering posted a thought-provoking post of the same name (The Cost Of Getting It Wrong). It’s very good, and I suggest you go read the whole thing. He asks several questions related to staffing, building and designing. As I thought about what he wrote, one particular question resonated with me: What will it cost to have the wrong audio and acoustics in your worship center? Again,… View this story
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Mike Sessler 11/07/12 02:48 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. Christmas: it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Unless of course you happen to be a church sound person. Statistics show Christmas and Easter are the highest attended weekends of the year, and most churches pull out all the stops to make those weekends great. And that tends to make a lot more work for the sound and production teams. Whether it’s a Christmas Pageant, a giant dramatic production, or multiple extra… View this story
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
Mike Sessler 11/01/12 04:31 PM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. The other day I was talking with a friend, and he asked me if I had ever written a post about our sound check procedure. I thought I had, but a quick search turned up nothing. So here it is. I’ve found the sound check to be one of the most important times of the entire weekend experience. It’s a short window in time that allows you to set the tone for the… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Consoles • Engineer • Mixer • Sound Reinforcement • Technician
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