Good Friday and Easter is a pretty big weekend at Coast Hills, as it is for most churches. For the last five years, we’ve put together a pretty powerful Good Friday service. It’s done completely without spoken words, instead using video, music and graphics to lead people through the experience. This is my first time [...]
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Easter Week
It’s Easter week, so we’ll all be pretty busy. But I thought I would quickly give you a quick glimpse as to what we’re doing at Coast Hills. Our Easter service is a fairly big deal, but the big production is Good Friday. Our Good Friday service is a very special production that contains no [...]
Cranky Old Techs
Along with several other church tech guys, I’ve recently been asked to start blogging over at Church Production Magazine. Today marks my inaugural post on that blog, mike Technically Direct. I’ll be posting a few articles over there each month and linking to them from here (so you don’t miss anything).Here’s a quick excerpt and [...]
Thriving in an Inter-Generational Setting Pt. 2
Last Friday, I started digging into the challenges that come with trying to have inter-generational communities sharing the same space and equipment. The first step is to look at technology needs through the lens of the other group as well as your own. Today, I’ll illustrate with some concrete examples of what that looks like. [...]
A Few Thoughts On System Design
I’ve done a lot of system design in my career. In college, I was tasked with coming up with some pretty elaborate systems for pulling together large multi-image festivals. Afterward, I designed temporary systems for very elaborate corporate sales meetings. When I started my company, I did all my own edit suite design and install, [...]
Heil Drum Mic Kit Pt. 2
The other day, I led off with the kick mic (PR-48) and the snare and hat mics (PR-22). Today, we’ll tackle the rest of the kit, starting with the toms. PR-28 Tom Mic As mentioned previously, the PR-28 shares the same capsule design with the PR-20 and PR-22. The mic body, however, is completely unique. [...]
Why I Use Rechargeable Batteries
There was significant discussion on the CTDRT e-mail list the other day about the use of batteries for wireless mics. Many people suggested different places to get great deals and which ones they use. I suggested using rechargeables instead. That met with some resistance, much of it centered around a bad experience. I’ll say a [...]
It’s Time For Another Webinar
Fresh off the heels of our last highly attended webinar (OK, it was last April and about 20 people joined in…), Dave Stagl, Jason Cole and I have decided it’s high time we did another one. Why? Mainly because we have a lot of fun doing them (and because a few people said they enjoyed [...]
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