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Thursday, May 24, 2012
PSW Staff
05/24/12 04:11 PM,
The Church Sound Forum here on ProSoundWeb is a free, on-line resource of information and dialog for individuals working with sound at their church that is moderated by Tom Young, a highly respected A/V consultant with decades of experience. To participate, go here. Here, we offer an interesting discussion thread from the forum packed with useful advise from the community. Question Posted By Kevin What would you say is the number one concern that a church may go through when…
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Tom Young
01/27/12 02:56 PM,
A sound level meter (SLM) is a device used to make frequency-weighted sound pressure level measurements displayed in dB-SPL. 0.0 dB-SPL is the threshold of hearing, and is equal to 20uPa (microPascals). This correlates to what one would aurally perceive when in a deep cave or in a large anechoic chamber. Packaged as a single-function handheld test device, SLMs are intended to be held at arm’s length during measurements (to reduce the effects of the body on the measurements) or…
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tom Young
11/10/11 05:43 AM,
Mic’ing drums in a contemporary worship environment is a learned craft and skill that relies on technical know-how, a musical ear, partnership with musicians (and the drummer in particular), favorable acoustics, well-behaved loudspeakers, reasonable financial investment, and lots of patience. How’s that for mix of encouraging and disheartening words? The need for sound reinforcement in contemporary worship and gospel music is similar to that in modern pop music (including R&R, R&B, soul, funk, electric folk, etc.), especially where musical content…
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tom Young
09/14/11 12:32 PM,
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Front fill loudspeakers are required in many sound reinforcement situations because the main loudspeakers do not cover the first few rows of seats, and in some productions, they’re also used because the mains (often far above the seats or positioned to the sides) result in skewed localization. Another less frequently encountered need is to correct the mix balance as heard from the front rows, primarily in musical theater. Even very well-designed, pattern-controlled loudspeakers, clusters, and arrays lose pattern control at…
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Friday, September 02, 2011
Tom Young
09/02/11 05:49 AM,
Over the past several years, a technique most commonly called “aux fed subs” has been developed for reducing low-frequency “muddiness” from front-of-house loudspeaker systems. This technique has resulted in considerable benefits over a wide variety of sound reinforcement applications, but there is confusion as to what it encompasses and what it accomplishes. Let’s clarify the details and describe the set up of an aux fed subwoofer system. We’ll also be addressing some frequently asked questions on the topic. In a…
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Friday, July 08, 2011
Tom Young
07/08/11 07:54 AM,
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Whether a system’s primary loudspeakers are point source clusters or line arrays, there may be a hole in coverage for the seats closest to those arrays. Curved line arrays (J-arrays) may - or may not - allow the lowest elements to be aimed appropriately to cover these nearby seats. More traditional point source arrays can be just as tricky. Simply throwing another box in at the bottom is not likely to provide the required coverage. Therefore, a dedicated down fill…
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