Dave, Jason and Mike discuss the benefits and challenges of in-ear monitors on the church stage. Though IEMs can be a great help in reducing stage volume, they can also cause some problems as well. In this lively discussion on IEMs, we talk about how to get the most from a move to IEMs and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘church sound’
Sound Techs and Worship Leaders
Recently I was asked the following question, “What’s the most important part of the relationship between a FOH engineer and the worship leader?”
There are a number of aspects to that—and any—relationship, many of which are very important. It’s great if the worship leader and sound tech are great friends and hang out all the time; [...]
IEM Webinar Tonight
Tonight, Feb 23 at a few minutes past 10 PM EST, 7 PM PST, Jason Cole, Dave Stagl and I will be leading a webinar on IEMs. We’re going to talk about developing a plan to migrate to IEMs, what benefits and challenges come out of such a transition and spend some time discussing the [...]
Bringing Vocals Forward
Last time I told you about my adventures in learning the PM5D-RH. And while there are a few things I don’t like about the desk, it’s a pretty powerful system. Having 24 mix busses, plus 8 matrix mixes (effectively doubled when you have a DSP-5 as we do), you have a lot of flexibility when [...]
Time for Another Webinar: Vocals
I’m excited to remind you that this Thursday, Oct. 15 at 10 PM EDT/7 PM PDT, my friends Dave, Jason & I will be hosting another TokBox webinar. We’ve done a few of these, notably on the wireless mic situation and drum mic’ing. This month’s installment will be titled, “Our Favorite Things: Vocals.” We’ll be [...]
Learning a New Board
Last weekend, we were about 20 minutes in to our stage set up when I realized there was a problem. Our regular FOH guy was not there. He’s been contracted to mix at Coast for something like 20 years, and he’s very reliable. So we called him. Turns out, we had ourselves a little scheduling [...]
Helping Vocalists Master Their Mix Pt. 2
A few days ago, I suggested that vocalists really need to hear 3, perhaps 4 things in their monitors. Those things are Tempo, Pitch, Themselves and (optionally) Harmony. If we as sound engineers put more than that in their mix, we are generally doing them a disservice. I say generally because professional singers (or people [...]
Helping Vocalists Master Their Monitors
Let me start off by saying that Tim Corder has done a great job in the last few weeks of writing about monitor mixing. He has several posts tailored for various musicians and even went so far as to include audio examples. If you haven’t already read them, you should. Tim wrote about building IEM [...]
The Drum Condo
Fresh on the heels of our drum mic’ing webinar, I thought I would post some details of our now famous “Drum Condo.” Perhaps ‘now famous’ is a slight overstatement; still, I’ve talked enough about it that I thought it merited a post. If you’ve read this blog for more than a month, you know that [...]
