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Monday, April 09, 2012Church Sound: The Power Of Music & Tech Responsibilities
Gary Zandstra 04/09/12 10:47 AM,The emotional attachment to music that we humans have amazes me. I can hear a song that I listened to in junior high school, and boom—my mind goes back there. I can remember where I was, see who was with me, and sometimes even relive the emotion that I experienced almost 30 years ago. Recently I interview Gary Matthews, Pastor of Worship at Christ Memorial Church in Holland, MI, and we talked about this attachment to music. Gary made some… View this post
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Church Sound: Go Big Or Go Home? Not Quite… Being Excellent With Less
Mike Sessler 04/09/12 10:31 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. Have you heard the expression “Stuff expands to fill the space available?” It was true in my life. When we lived in our first, tiny little house, we didn’t have that much stuff. In fact, it all fit in a single moving van when we bought our next, larger house. After 10 years there, however, we had a lot of stuff. In fact, the once empty basement was full. It took an interstate… View this post
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Friday, April 06, 2012Gregg Brunclik Of Clearwing Productions: It’s All About Building Something
Kevin Young 04/06/12 02:58 PM,“Ever since I drove my first drywall screw into my mother’s coffee table, I’ve had a passion for building things,” says Gregg Brunclik. Originally that manifested itself as a desire to build things with his hands, he adds, including the first loudspeakers his company, Clearwing Productions, offered to its clients. While that passion has evolved over time, it’s been integral to success of Clearwing since day one, and well before the company incorporated in 1985. Over time, the Milwaukee-based company… View this post
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Thursday, April 05, 2012RE/P Files: Interview With Grammy Award Winning Engineer/Producer Bones Howe
John Gibson 04/05/12 03:41 PM,jg - The first question is about your use of baffles. B.H.- My use of baffles? I don’t use them. Using directional characteristics of the microphones, you can get just as good separation as you can using baffles. You have to remember that sound travels… the example that is most often used is that if you drop a pebble in still water, it makes concentric circles spreading out, and that’s what happens to sound. If you put a baffle up,… View this post
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012Details, Details: Setting Up Snake Channel 24
Dave Rat 04/03/12 04:52 PM,The attention to detail that takes place in preparing a rock show can be mind boggling. For example, I listed out the factors we account for in setting up the lead vocal mic for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Check it out: 1) The mic. Anthony has been using Audix OM7 dynamic mics for over 20 years now. The OM7 exhibits high feedback stability and picks up very little room sound compared to other mics. This allows me to capture… View this post
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Church Sound: The Ten Axioms Of Mixing
Chris Huff 04/03/12 01:25 PM,This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. It’s easy to get lost in the nuts and bolts of mixing. Remember these 10 axioms; because when you’re up to your neck in faders and knobs, much of what you are doing comes down to dealing with these 10 points. 1) There will occasionally be someone who thinks it’s too loud, no matter how carefully you watch your volume levels. Don’t take this as a sign of failure. Every person… View this post
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Monday, April 02, 2012Church Sound: Five Things I’d Say To Young Engineers
Mike Sessler 04/02/12 10:04 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. A while back, Chris Huff wrote an interesting post about how musicians see sound techs. It’s a good, enlightening and sometimes hard read. I recommend it. One of the comments that really got me was this one: Do you give suggestions to the sound tech? —All the time and he always dismisses everything anyone says. That got me thinking and inspired this article series. I don’t know that I’ve attained the status of… View this post
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Friday, March 30, 2012Tour De Absurd: Unbound By The Fundamental Rules Of Reality
Sully 03/30/12 11:54 AM,I was just bitten by a dog. Truthfully, not 20 minutes ago when I went to pick up a piece of gear at somebody’s house. When I pulled into the driveway, an unholy spawn of a late night dalliance between Benji and the Geico gecko waddled over to me, growled, then bit me on the f***ing ankle. I screamed like a five year old, which somehow triggered the garage door to open and spew a teenage girl carrying the gear… View this post
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Advanced Small Console Techniques: Maximizing The Available Feature Set
Dave Dermont 03/30/12 11:25 AM,Everyone loves a big console. Even when they’re small in size, like modern digital consoles, we favor consoles that have everything we need to solve any problem that may come up. But what about those times when, for whatever reason, a big console is not available? That’s the time for ingenuity and some special techniques that maximize the usefulness of the available feature set. Some people call these “workarounds,” but the term I like is “tricks.” You know, like a… View this post
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Poll • Analog • Consoles • Digital • Engineer • Interconnect • Processor • Technician -
Thursday, March 29, 2012Mixing With An Attitude: An Interview With Chris Lord Alge
Bootz 03/29/12 04:33 PM,This article is provided by Audiofanzine. The Beginnings Hi Chris, can you tell us what are you currently working on at the moment? Chris Lord Alge: What I am currently working on right now is finishing up an album by a band called Shinedown, just wrapping that up. The single is already out to radio and then the record comes out. Just before I finished Shinedown, I finished mixing Bruce Springsteen. I kind of co-mixed that with Bob Clearmountain. Bob… View this post
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