The other day, I had to do a funeral. Now, I generally don’t like funerals; first because they’re typically emotionally hard, and second because they’re technically challenging. Typically, funerals are planned by people who have no idea how technology works and they are always last-minute. Last week’s funeral was all of that, and more. Because [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pm5d’
Behind the Scenes of Gunch–Audio
Since a few people have asked about it, I’ll give you all a quick behind the scenes look at our original Christmas Production, Gunch: This Christmas, Hope is Reaching for U. It stared off from a desire to do a simpler, less produced production this year for Christmas. But then we got a few creative [...]
Input Sheet Template
The other day I tweeted a reference to my new semi-automated input sheet. There was a loud enough cry that others may be interested, so I thought I’d write it up here. It started off life as an Excel spreadsheet that a predecessor of mine came up with. While I may have done the basic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Outfitting a Building, Pt. 2
If you’ve just stumbled across this post directly, you should first go back and read Outfitting a Building. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. Alright, here we go. Today, we’ll talk about the right way to outfit a church. That was a joke. You can laugh now. It would be quite presumptuous to think that A) there [...]
The Digital Matrix
Picking up where we left off, today we’ll talk a little bit about how digital consoles are changing the way we think about a matrix mix. Perviously, we discussed what a matrix is, and how to use it. Rather than try to give a completely illustrated guide to every digital console and how it works (which [...]
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