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Thursday, May 10, 2012Church Sound: The Keys To Presenting Audio That Will Engage Your Congregation
Gary Zandstra 05/10/12 05:51 PM,Producing great sound in a worship service can seem as elusive as finding a soloist who always sings on key. However, this doesn’t have to be so. Many factors influence the quality of sound: room acoustics, sound-system design and performance, operator experience, and quality of musical performance. Here are some practical tips on how to tie all of that together to get the best sound. Understand the Basics To get the most out of a sound system, you must first… View this post
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Poll • Analog • Audio • Digital Audio Workstations • Education • Engineer • Installation • Loudspeaker • Mixer • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • System -
Simple Tool: The Importance Of Recording Live Shows For Later Evaluation
James Cadwallader 05/10/12 01:32 PM,Several years ago, I had the pleasure of mixing a few times for a very talented rock band. The first show was a CD release party at a local all-ages club, and I got a call about an hour before the band was to take the stage. On the other end of the phone was the band’s bass player (an old friend), who asked me to come down and mix. They were the second band that night and had no… View this post
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Friday, May 04, 2012In The Studio: DIY Subkick Microphone
Jon Tidey 05/04/12 11:46 AM,This article is provided by Audio Geek Zine. This is an old but very effective trick for mic’ing kick drums. Take a Yamaha NS10 speaker cone and use that to capture the extra low frequencies of the drum. Without going into too much theory about this, a dynamic microphone and a speaker are essentially the same thing: they’re both transducers. They take acoustical energy and convert it into electrical energy or vice versa. So what you do is take… View this post
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Thursday, May 03, 2012Transcending Tech: A Conversation With Ethan Winer, Author Of “The Audio Expert”
Keith Clark 05/03/12 05:18 PM,The Audio Expert, a new book by Ethan Winer, exhaustively covers a plethora of important technical aspects of audio. But it goes much further, discussing and explaining the relationship between audio and a wide range of closely related factors. In short, it challenges you to think, to seek a deeper understanding. Just released by Focal Press (and available here), I received an advance copy and have had a hard time putting it down. Winer, who has worked with audio for… View this post
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012Church Sound: Who Are You Mixing For?
Gary Zandstra 04/17/12 07:07 AM,A number of years ago, a guy ostensibly working in “professional audio” told me that the reason he mixed the events he did (they were generally smaller local events) was so he could turn up the bass as loud as he could and/or as loud as was possible. Personally, I’m glad I didn’t attend any of these events. It’s not that I don’t like bass, it’s more that he was more concerned about how it sounded to him rather that… View this post
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Friday, April 13, 2012Road Test: Roland Systems Group M-480
Craig Leerman 04/13/12 10:52 AM,The M-480 digital console is a primary component in the steadily expanding V-Mixing system family from Roland Systems Group that also includes other console models, as well as digital snakes, personal mixers, protocol interfaces and the new R-1000 multi-track digital recorder. The M-480 is the largest console in the series (other models include the 400, 380 and 300), offering 48 mixing channels plus 6 stereo returns (for a total of 60 channels), left/center/right outputs, 16 aux buses and 8 matrices.… View this post
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012The Old Soundman: Nicknames And Advice For An Emancipated Minor
Old Soundman 04/10/12 10:31 AM,Dear Old Soundman: “I don’t have a nickname. How do I get one? Do I need one?” Sincerely, Scohen Dude! You absolutely need one! Everybody needs one! How about if I call you “Sco”? That is what aspiring young “yo-cat” fusion musicians at the Berklee School of Music in the 80s called guitarist John Scofield. These are the same obsessive characters who smugly referred to Charlie Parker as “Bird” and John Coltrane as “Trane,” and sat around discussing “Chick” and… View this post
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New Video: The Kurzweil Story - It All Started With Ray
PSW Staff 04/10/12 09:21 AM,The Kurzweil name is legendary among musicians across virtually all musical genres. The company is known among aficionados for its cutting-edge sound modeling techniques, as well as for creating some of the most desirable and eloquently playable instruments available. A new video (below) features interviews with company founder/inventor Ray Kurzweil, as well as R&D director Hal Chamberlin, and associate R&D director Tim Thompson. Kurzweil, an inventor who has made his mark in a diverse range of research, educational and technology… View this post
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012The Studio Curmudgeon: The Use And Misuse Of Reverb
Daniel Keller 04/03/12 11:24 AM,Along with EQ, reverb is probably the most commonly-used effect in audio. It would be nearly impossible to find a recording that doesn’t employ some type of reverb. And probably because it’s so ubiquitous, reverb is also one of the most misunderstood and misused effects there is. It’s interesting to consider that, as with so many things in modern life, we’ve spent countless hours inventing technologies that enable us to recreate something that occurs naturally in the real world. It… View this post
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Friday, March 16, 2012Auto-Tune Accidentally Invented By Oil Scientist (Includes Video)
Bobby Owsinski 03/16/12 03:19 PM,This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. Auto-Tune is the process we love to hate. To most older (or shall we say “classic”) engineers and producers, it’s avoided like the plague, preferring to work the singer until he gets it right. Of course, no one complains when it’s used on that one note that just can’t be comped. Then there’s T-Pain, who took Auto-Tune to a new level, using it as a integral piece of his act by using… View this post
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