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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Mike Sokol & Hector La Torre
11/21/12 08:12 AM,
Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. DI boxes (“Direct Instrument” or “Direct Inject” boxes) are very helpful tools in a live sound system. The most common type is called a passive DI, which includes an isolation transformer and ground lift switch. The primary function of a DI box is to convert the unbalanced (1/4-inch 2-conductor) phone plug output on your keyboard or guitar into a low-impedance (low-z), balanced (3-conductor) XLR jack, which can be plugged directly into your signal…
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Mike Sokol & Hector La Torre
11/15/12 07:24 PM,
Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. Consider tape. It’s something used nearly every day, but usually not thought of until the empty roll mocks you. We’re not speaking about audio recording tape here (may it rest in peace), but rather different types of adhesive tapes that can help you conduct your services safer and easier. There are at least three kinds of tape that can and should be used in a church sound system: electrical tape, gaffers tape and…
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Mike Sokol & Hector La Torre
04/04/12 09:50 AM,
Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. Some of the most frequently asked questions we get have to do with equalization: “What does it do?” “When and how do I use it?” For whatever reasons, most church sound staffs desperately want to put EQ to the test and into action. Perhaps it’s that adjusting equalization controls provide immediate sonic response — for better or worse, you can instantly hear what you’ve done. Equalization can be used in different ways, including:…
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Courtney Roebuck
03/14/12 06:47 PM,
Ever wonder how to cue an ensemble in the dark? Just grab a few 220-ohm resistors and some light-emitting diodes and you’re halfway there. Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA made a mark on innovation and ways to experience music as an audience member with a recent percussion ensemble performance of “Pika-Don” by American composer James Tenney. The piece is a musical representation of a percussion ensemble paired with prerecorded voiceover tracks of writings taken from the scientists at the first…
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Mike Sokol
03/12/12 01:01 PM,
Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. Recording the music in your worship services on a two-track recorder, such as a CD recorder, seems like it would be simple. But if your mixes sound terrible, here’s how to do it the right way. Most mixing consoles have a set of connectors labeled “tape out” or something similar. And while you may be tempted to simply plug your CD recorder into that output, there’s probably trouble on the way. Here’s why.…
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Mike Sokol
02/09/12 10:14 AM,
This article is provided by How-To ASSIST Technical Training. If terms such as gain structure, impedance matching and headroom are unfamiliar, or worse, give you a headache, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Most church sound techs would rather have their gear work perfectly right out of the box than have to tweak it into compliance. Nevertheless, when it comes to setting up and operating a sound system, a working knowledge of gain structure (and a few related concepts) will…
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Mike Sokol
01/25/12 02:25 PM,
This article is provided by How-To ASSIST Technical Training. We’ve all been in a fix from time to time when we needed to sum two audio signals into one. Much of the time, we need to convert a stereo signal into mono. The other situation is typically when you need to add the outputs of two mixing boards together, summing the left, right, effects and monitor outputs into common lines so that two boards act as one large mixer.…
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Mike Sokol
01/12/12 09:30 AM,
This article is provided by How-To ASSIST Technical Training. If you’ve attended a HOW-TO Sound Workshop, you’ve heard me play examples of loudspeakers out of polarity. You can lose bass response, cancel your vocals and cause general phase mayhem in your sound system. Well, here’s a cheap and easy way to test for proper wiring inside your loudspeaker cabinets before you install them up on the wall and without running any audio signal through them. See below for Thumper,…
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
Mike Sokol
06/09/11 01:59 PM,
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Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. If terms such as gain structure, impedance matching and headroom are unfamiliar, or worse, give you a headache, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Most church sound techs would rather have their gear work perfectly right out of the box than have to tweak it into compliance. Nevertheless, when it comes to setting up and operating a sound system, a working knowledge of gain structure (and a few related concepts) will help you get…
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