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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘budget’
That’s Not Right, Tear It All Out
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Thinking Ahead
I was reading Tony Morgan’s blog the other day as he was reviewing Andy Stanley’s new book, The Principle of the Path. One phrase in particular caught my mind, and it’s stuck with me ever since. It’s good advice for life to be sure; and it has particular importance for those of us charged with [...]
Rechargeable Battery Update
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about rechargeable batteries. Mainly because there was no new news with the Ansmann brand we had been using, and I wanted to try out the new ones for a while before giving an update. Thankfully, the wait was worth it, and this is good news. When Upper Room [...]
The Big News
OK, I’ve been promising this for days on Twitter, it’s time to spill the beans. I’ve been on staff for about 18 months at a really cool church outside of Minneapolis. We’ve gone from being a sub-ministry at an older and larger church to a church plant. That transition has been a lot of work, and [...]
Solder Fest 09 Continues
I love soldering. I love making cables. I’ve even written excessively about it on this site (here, here and here). There is just something satisfying and rewarding about making your own mic cable, or a sub snake, or a patch bay. Perhaps it’s the joy of knowing you just made future set ups a little [...]
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 [...]
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