Generally speaking, technical people are a somewhat unsocial lot. Most of us are introverts, and typically we’d prefer to work alone rather than be around a big bunch of people. That’s not to say we don’t love to talk with other people (most of us can go on for hours when we start “talkin’ tech…”), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Church’
DIGiCo SD-9 Review
We the SD-9 in for a weekend before our SD-8 arrived and several people have asked my impressions of it. I’ll tell you what I think of it in a minute, but first let’s go over some specs. The SD-9 is the smallest (currently) in the newer SD line from DIGiCo. The naming structure may [...]
Perfect or Powerful?
Much has been written on the topic of excellence in the production of church services. In fact, it’s been written about in this very blog. As a recovering perfectionist however, I’m beginning to revise my view of excellence. Some define excellence as perfection; in fact, one church tech I know said if the service wasn’t [...]
Surviving VBS
Last week was VBS for us (though we call is SVBS). As it was my first SVBS since coming to Coast Hills, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect (aside from a ton of really amped up kids screaming their cheers). I had some initial meetings with the kid’s ministries staff to talk about the [...]
What We Can Learn from Michael Jackson
Yesterday I wrote a post over at Church Production Magazine with some thoughts gleaned after re-watching Michael Jackson’s This Is It. It may not be immediately apparent, but there are a few things we as church techs and musicians that we can learn from his actions during the rehearsal for the show that never went on. How [...]
The Other New System
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 [...]
Memorial Service Guidelines
Those that follow me on Twitter will no doubt know that a few weeks ago we had a large memorial service. And I when I use the descriptor “large,” I don’t mean we had a lot of people. I mean it was large! The final run sheet (yes, we had a run sheet) had 28 [...]
Replacing Good Gear with the Right Gear
While following my normal lunchtime ritual (reading trade magazines while eating my sandwich), something occurred to me. I was reading an article about the new EAW KF740. As I read it, I started thinking about our current PA, made up of KF 750s and 755s. It’s a system that I’ve been advocating changing since I [...]
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 [...]
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