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Selecting a Contractor
How to select the company that will install the new sound system at your church
Posted 08/17/2010
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Developing a Technical Ministry
So how does one put a winning team together to make the technical production happen?
Posted 08/10/2010
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Fader Rider vs. Fader Raider
Why not replace the "Fader Rider" and "Fader Raider" with a "Fader Rookie"??
Posted 08/03/2010
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The one thing that will revolutionize your ministry!
The concept is a simple one but it changed the entire planning for the event!
Posted 07/27/2010
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Producing great sound in a worship service!
Practical tips on how to tie all of it together to get the best sound.
Posted 07/20/2010
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Sales or Fishing? What’s your connection to them?
Want to increase your church growth by 11,000%? Want to enjoy 100% parishioner retention, or how about getting people to double tithe (giving 20% of Gross)? Just send $999.95 to.........
Posted 07/13/2010
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Are you dancing in the spirit, or do you need more vocal in your monitor?
To help avoid embarrassment I suggest that you work with the musicians to develop a simple set of signals to know when and how to adjust the monitors.
Posted 07/06/2010
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Let’s go Retro….. all over again!
The reverb section of the VA 300C was spectacular! Well that is if you like noisy spring reverb. Think of the big Mr. Microphone that you can purchase at the dollar store.
Posted 06/29/2010
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Test…..5…6…7…... part 2 of: Ten Steps on how to use a sound check to ignite an explosion
This is part 2 of an article I started last week.
Posted 06/15/2010
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Check 1…2…Test! part 1 of: Ten Steps on how to use a sound check to ignite an explosion
Can a sound check lead to an explosion?
Posted 06/08/2010
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Is bad sound a sin?
Doug playfully asked the question “is bad sound a sin?” I took his bait and replied “not necessarily” Doug then asked “is breaking one of God’s Laws a sin?”
Posted 06/01/2010
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Making Church Happen!!!! at the e3 summit
Points on How to Make Church Happen
Posted 05/25/2010
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Excellence…… is it for you, or do you just settle for adequate?
. As we sat simmering in the hot water and chit chatting about the facility, the event, the artists we would invite to perform….. one of the guys stated, “This is going to be an excellent event!”
Posted 05/18/2010
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It’s a little too loud, but that’s good!
With the drums now in front of the opening and fully inside the main room we were hearing a lot more of the acoustic sound from the drum set than we were used to.
Posted 05/04/2010
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The Cave or the Fish Bowl…...where does your drummer belong?
I asked my client how the “drum cave” came out for her. Her reply was, “with the big glass window in front, I now call it the fish bowl”.
Posted 04/26/2010
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Obfuscation in the presentation or; Can a cacophony of esoteric words make you look and sound smart
Why does it seem that people want to exacerbate the learning process, or any situation, by using big or industry specific words or jargon?
Posted 04/12/2010
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Stage Presence or Stage presents
The band sounded great, but it took time to get the monitors right.
Posted 04/05/2010
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Live is, (well I guess) TO LIVE!
“Audio is the art that everyone thinks is a science and Audio is the science that everyone thinks is art”. When you can both understand and mix science and art together, the results can bring sound to life!
Posted 03/29/2010
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Outreach, is it an inside joke?
My friend said “I can’t be sure that some of the attendees were people that are not in the typical Christian circles, and perhaps, the concert was even a turning point is someone’s life,but at this outreach event the great majority were already regular church goers".
Posted 03/22/2010
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To upgrade or not? or, is it live or Memorex?
Between 1913 and 1920, the master showman Thomas Edison did more than 4000 “blind listening tests” to promote his Phonograph equipment and Diamond disc recordings. Could you determine what was live and what was Memorex?
Posted 03/15/2010
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Is Consumerism Dead?
The tough economy has forced many to re-evaluate their economic priorities. What about the spiritual priorities?
Posted 03/01/2010
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Sound Guy as King of the World?
The biggest event of my career? Politics aside, it was fun to be on the "inside" of a Presidential Visit.
Posted 02/22/2010
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M3 Technology powered by TNT!
What is so captivating about a watching a brawl just as it gets ready to explode?
Posted 02/15/2010
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Sometimes Live is just so Live!
On a sunday morning there are no retakes or do-overs. It is just plain Live!
Posted 02/08/2010
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Upside down or inside out?
In the book of acts, Paul and Silas turned the world upside down. Find out how I turned mine inside out!!!
Posted 02/01/2010
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