One of the challenges we face as church sound engineers is to get consistent levels on our recordings. Almost every church I know of records it’s services, either on Hard Disk, CD, Video, Cassettes (the horror!) or a combination of those. Unless you have a dedicated recording mixing position, getting the levels consistent on those [...]
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The “Best” Vocal Mic
Recently, I received an e-mail inquiring about microphones; specifically what constitutes a good microphone. The reader had seen my post on rechargeable batteries and noticed that I was using SM58 capsules on the mics under test. That made him wonder about the report he had just received from a consultant who had reviewed their church’s [...]
A Little Perspective
Last Sunday, Pastor Ken taught from Luke 12, the Parable of the Rich Fool. It was a message that came at a good time for me. I had just spent the entire previous week (working through both my days off and a holiday) getting new system processing in. I thought it sounded a ton better; [...]
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 [...]
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