Some of our faithful volunteers hanging fabric for Good Friday
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Good Friday Set Up
Audio is in place, lighting is being tweaked. We used a bunch of different fabrics which when lit, will look really cool.
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 [...]
Connecting to RS-232 Gear
Chances are you have equipment in your racks that you can connect to with the RS-232 protocol. System processors and video scalers are probably the two most likely. Last week I spent some quality time in monitor world tweaking our processors, Klark 9848s. The 9848 is a good processor and has a nice display window [...]
Multi-Track Audio in QuickTime Movies
This year for Good Friday, we need to run some video. But not just any video; it needs to have two tracks of synth/pad and music stuff, a sound effects track and a click track. And each track needs to be discreet so we can mix it with the live music (not to mention send [...]
Rechargeable Batteries—Making the Switch
After the last post on batteries, Dave asked a really good question: How does one get started? Other questions were raised as well; How to you justify the cost of the charging infrastructure? How do you determine charging/cell capacity? Good questions, all and I will attempt some answers. First, some history. When I first started using [...]
Rechargeable 9v Batteries—Q&A
Several people have asked if I will be testing and reviewing 9v rechargeable batteries anytime soon. The short answer is no. I only have one device (a PSM600) that uses 9v right now, and hope to replace that by summer. Still, I’ve used a lot of 9v batteries in the past, so I’ll put up [...]
Why Digital Presets Aren’t All That
Recently, I was asked to stop by a church in the area to work on the EQ for the pastor’s mic. Their volunteer sound guys were having trouble getting it dialed in and they needed help. Since they work on an M7-CL, it would be a simple matter to dial up some EQ and compression, [...]
Happy Birthday, CTA!
I don’t do this often, largely because I’m uncomfortable with self-promotion. But I keep reading that we need to celebrate good things that are happening, and especially so with our blogs. In that spirit, I would like to say a happy 3rd birthday to this blog. I’m actually 10 days late; the first post was [...]
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