I was watching one of my favorite home-improvement shows the other night; Holmes on Homes. If you’ve not seen it, check it out. Mike Holmes is a contractor who gets called in by homeowners in trouble. Typically, they have hired a contractor to do a job and it’s either botched or abandoned. The homeowners are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Audio’
Why Input Sheets?
Phil raised a good question based on my last post about the Input Sheet Template; to wit, Why even do an input sheet? I can think of several reasons, actually.
Makes it Easy to Pre-Build Show Files
If you have a digital console, it’s quite nice to be able to set up the console ahead of time [...]
Setting Priorities Pt. 2
Yesterday we started off talking about how I approach coming into a new church. Today, we’ll pretend I’ve been here a while and talk about how I’m going to prioritize systems upgrades in a building in which every system needs to be upgraded.
As I alluded to yesterday, a big part will be meeting with the [...]
Setting Priorities
When I was in college, there was a professor who was known for shooting straight. When a student tried to excuse his unfinished assignment by claiming there were so many other things he was trying to work on, the professor simply waved his hand and said, “Priorities, son. Priorities.” That phrase has been rattling around [...]
EQ Libraries
One of the cool things about digital consoles is that you can save stuff you need to use again. Sometimes, we take this too far, and simply recall last week’s mix and call it good. That’s not really the right way to do things, as so much has changed from last week. Even if the [...]
Technology Lumping
Somewhere out there you might have noticed that sound, lighting and video are different (with apologies to The Masked Engineer). In the professional world, audio guys hold little regard for “squints.” The lighting guys don’t really care if there’s enough light for the video, and the video guys, well they don’t like anyone. A slight [...]
Stage on Wheels
You probably know by now that when it comes to moving stuff, I like wheels. When some of our long lost ancestors invented the wheel, they hit on something big. Yet for some reason, we still insist on carrying stuff. Well not me. If I can put wheels on it, I do. Even on stuff [...]
Podcast Production Pt. 3–Encoding
To some extent, the MP3 encoding process of podcast production is the most important. Sure recording and post-production are up there on the list, but those are fairly easy. And they’re the ones most people pay the most attention to. Exporting as an MP3 is easy (so it seems), so most people don’t give it [...]
A Couple Useful Links & A Personal Update
Well, it’s Miscellaneous Wednesday, so I thought I’d share a few things with you that I’ve found useful. First of all, I saw a Tweet last week from @Macs In Church that was a link to a pretty interesting site if you work with video at all: Zach Poff Software. Zach Poff is a New York [...]
