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Friday, May 14, 2010Tech Tip Of The Day: What Goes Into a Church Sound System?
PSW Staff 05/14/10 10:57 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. This is the first five in a series of ten points to remember when planing a church sound installation. Make sure to check out the second five points in the series. Q: I’m on a committee to purchase a new sound system for my church. Are there any special considerations that go into this type of installation?” A: In many ways, designing an effective system for a house of worship is one of the most… View this post
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010Tour Profile: Emotion & Commotion
Mark Frink 05/12/10 02:50 PM, 1 CommentJeff Beck is currently touring in support of “Emotion & Commotion” - his first studio album in 7 years that debuted last month at number 11 on Billboard. Beck is one of the guitar gods, along with Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, to have played with the Yardbirds. He left to form The Jeff Beck Group in 1967, with Rod Stewart on vocals and Ronnie Wood on bass. Beck has gone on to earn five Grammy Awards for “Best Rock… View this post
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Tech Tip Of The Day: Sidefill ConfusionPSW Staff 05/12/10 10:04 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: We’re starting to have some contemporary music at my church and I’m helping with the sound. For our sound system we’re using a regular stage setup with speakers on stands. Everything is working ok so far but I had a question about monitors. Is it true that placing smaller PA speakers behind the main speakers facing the worship team a better solution than using floor monitors? A: In the simplest terms, no. Properly placed floor… View this post
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Friday, May 07, 2010Tech Tip Of The Day: Using Limiters For In-Ear MonitoringPSW Staff 05/07/10 11:57 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: We recently started using In-Ear Monitoring at my church, however, we’ve noticed that the volume is really hard to control. It’s all over the place, to the point where the volume is almost painfully loud at times! Can you offer any advice? A: The advantages of in-ear monitoring systems (IEM) are many, which you’ve undoubtedly already found. The most obvious advantage, of course, is the ability to reduce the high sound pressure levels (SPL) on… View this post
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Thursday, May 06, 2010Church Sound Files: The Many Advantages Of DI Boxes
Mike Sokol & Hector La Torre 05/06/10 01:02 PM, 1 CommentProvided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. DI Boxes (Direct Instrument or Direct Inject Boxes) are very helpful tools for your 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… View this post
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Nashville Area Pro Audio Community Severely Impacted By This Week’s Flooding
PSW Staff 05/06/10 10:30 AM, 0 CommentsEditors Note: Updated with additional emergency assistance and charity information which is available below. Many pro audio folks have been hit very hard by the extreme flooding that submerged a sizeable portion of Nashville and Middle Tennessee in the wake of last weekend’s record rainfall. The Country Music Television (CMT) website provides an overview of the damage to performance and entertainment venues throughout the area. The latest reports indicate that the flood waters are receding, but what’s going to be… View this post
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Saturday, May 01, 2010Amplifier Power Master Class: Not All Ratings Are Similar
Bruce Bartlett 05/01/10 11:54 AM,In designing a live sound system, you’ll come up with all sorts of questions, such as: One power amplifier is rated at 1,000 watts, and a different brand is also rated at 1,000 watts. Do they actually produce the same power? Suppose you add more loudspeakers in parallel to a power amp output. Does the amp produce more power, less power, or the same? Does each loudspeaker have to handle more or less power as you add more loudspeakers? To… View this post
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Thursday, April 29, 2010Sacred Sound: Getting Our Priorities Straight
Curt Taipale 04/29/10 10:59 AM, 0 CommentsWho is soundcheck for, anyway? Sounds like a silly question, at least until you start talking with the worship teams and tech crews at a lot of churches. Then the realization begins that in fact there are some different perspectives floating around out there. From my perspective as an audio engineer, soundcheck is not the process of setting up the microphones or making sure that everything is working properly, and it’s not a time for the worship team to rehearse… View this post
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Designer Notebook: Inside The Development Of The New EAW KF740 Line Array
Nathan Butler 04/29/10 08:52 AM, 1 CommentThis Designer Notebook was submitted by EAW. Live Sound/ProSoundWeb makes every effort to eliminate any use of marketing-inspired hyperbole. From the outset of the development process, the new KF740 line array module has been conceived as a medium-sized, flexible package capable of meeting the widest possible range of touring and installation applications, while providing exceptional sound quality as well as efficiency. Further, it needed to provide full-range performance as a stand-alone line array system as well as be easily integrated… View this post
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Monday, April 26, 2010Tech Tip Of The Day: Feedback Problems With Drum RisersPSW Staff 04/26/10 01:49 PM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: Our band recently built a drum riser to use on gigs. Now it seems like the drums feedback in the low end a lot more, especially the bass drum. What can we do? A: The drum riser is sympathetically vibrating (resonating) with the drums and/or PA system. Either way it is feeding these resonances back to the drums, causing the heads to ring a little more, which is being picked up by the mics, etc.… View this post
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