Sometimes I wish I was an audio director and not a technical director. Audio is what I get excites me, and what I stay awake at night thinking about. However, at this stage in my life, God has me doing what He’s gifted me to do; build good technical systems, processes and the teams to [...]
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The Trouble With Choices
Quite often, we have a hard time making good decisions today when the consequences of poor ones don’t appear for a long time. Today, I wrote a post over at Church Production Magazine that talks about how that applies to us as church tech people. The other day I was listening to one of my [...]
System Design With a Tight Budget
A week ago, we held a webinar with Jason Cole, Dave Stagl and Bob Nahrstadt of Next Creative media. The topic? System design. You can listen to the audio here. One of the main takeaways from that webinar is that most of the time, the best course of action for a church to take when [...]
Being in Two (or More) Places at Once
The other day, I had to do a funeral. Now, I generally don’t like funerals; first because they’re typically emotionally hard, and second because they’re technically challenging. Typically, funerals are planned by people who have no idea how technology works and they are always last-minute. Last week’s funeral was all of that, and more. Because [...]
Coast Hills Christmas Production Pt. 2
As promised, here are some more shots from the Christmas Production. If you missed the earlier ones, you can find them here. One of the things we tried to do was create depth on the stage using basically flat objects. Her “bed” for example, is two pieces of 1/4″ luan with simple brace stands. The [...]
Coast Hills Christmas Production
Coast Hills has a rich tradition of putting together a great Christmas concert. There is typically a theme, top musicians are brought in, and a wonderful concert ensues. This year, we decided to do something different. We felt God was calling us to tell a compelling story that clearly conveyed the Gospel. After much brainstorming, [...]
Equipment List
Since I’ve received several comments on recent posts that start with, “Is that a [fill in the blank]?,” I thought I’d run down the list of equipment we put in our new worship space. Almost all of it is new, since we came from another church that had a pretty complete, though not very good, A/V [...]
Another Doh! Moment
Training is a great way to learn things. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of videos, read books, attended seminars and learned from real, live people. This is all very useful, but has the disadvantage of also being easily forgettable. Much like our own lives, the lessons that stick with us the best come when we [...]
Review: Chauvet D-Fi Wireless DMX
As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently picked up two Chauvet D-Fi wireless DMX units. The motivation behind this purchase was to save the hassle of running 200′ of DMX cable from our tech booth (in the back of the balcony) all the way to upstage left–and picking it up every weekend. We [...]
Extreme Tech Booth Makeover: Church Edition
When I joined Upper Room, our tech booth was in need of, how to say, a little rennovation. There was a lot equipment packed into a small space. Some of it was hooked up, some not. Wires were coming in from all over the church; some labeled, some not. And there was some equipment that [...]
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