All week I’ve been giving advice to young sound engineers. The first three posts have dealt with our knowledge, attitudes and what to do when we make mistakes. Today (finally!) we get to talk about gear–well, sort of. #4: Be Prepared And Know Your Equipment This is a big one for me. While it’s true [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Worship Leaders, You’re Killing Us
I’ve written a guest post for a site called Musicademy today. The site is based in the UK and is an excellent resource for worship leaders. If you’re a techie, I’d still encourage you to check it out. Something that’s been on my heart lately is that both techies and musicians need to spend more [...]
Five Things I’d Say to Young Sound Engineers Pt. 3
For the last two days, we’ve been talking about advice to young sound engineers. For review, the first two points were: #1: You Don’t Know as Much as You Think You Do and #2: Attitude is More Important than the Mix Today we’ll continue with… #3: Don’t Be Afraid To Say, “I’ve Made A Mistake” [...]
Five Things I’d Say to Young Sound Engineers Pt. 2
Yesterday began a new series that falls loosely in the category of advice for young sound engineers. The first point was, You Don’t Know as Much as You Think You Do. Today, we’ll build on that. #2: Attitude Is More Important Than The Mix Demonstrating a servant’s hear and going out of your way to [...]
Five Things I’d Say to Young Sound Engineers Pt. 1
Chris Huff at Behind the Mixer wrote an interesting post last week. He wrote 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 [...]
Technological Worship: Style or Substance
OK, I admit it. I crowdsourced this blog topic. The last few months have been really draining, and I’ve been running low on ideas (actually, I have tons of ideas, but they’re all half-baked). So, I turned to the Twitterverse for some suggestions. Today’s topic is courtesy of Mark (@soulfisher), one of our volunteer lighting [...]
Be Still…
Those of use who proudly claim the moniker “Geek” are a rare breed. We’re different from most people around us. Almost every geek I know surely has input as a key strength (if you’re not familiar with StrengthsFinder 2.0, check it out). We’re constantly listening to music or podcasts; watching TV or movies; reading or [...]
Re-Mix: Lessons Learned from a 12-Year Old
Taking a cue from Stuff Christians Like (and Jon probably stole this idea from someone else–that’s how we bloggers roll…), I’m pulling up a remix. Actually “remix” might imply that I’ve done something to change up this post since it was originally published. But I didn’t I just re-read it because it came up as [...]
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