Like most of you, last week for me was a long one. In fact, the weeks leading up to Easter have been long and a bit stressful. And like many, I’m taking some time off this week to rest. Probably not as much as I should, but there will be a few days of sitting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘volunteers’
Presenting Upgrade Projects
I had lunch with my boss (Pastor of Weekends) and Sr. Pastor this week. The purpose of the lunch was two-fold. First, I wanted to inform him of my findings as I’ve spent the last few months looking over our systems. Second, I wanted to get his feedback on which updates need to take priority [...]
The Importance of Camaraderie
Can we acknowledge the elephant in the room? Being a Tech Director is hard. A lot is expected of us; knowing all things about all manner of technology, pastoring our volunteers, supporting that woman in children’s ministry who can’t figure out how the DVD player works, the list goes on. To make things more challenging, [...]
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 Good Enough Principle
Shawn Wood, Experience Pastor at Seacost Church wrote a post a few weeks ago that I found very interesting. His topic: The Good Enough Principle. Later that week I read an article in Wired about the same thing. There seems to be a movement afoot to make things good enough. Now, if you’ve read this [...]
The Mix or the Room?
Let’s be honest, we all know a lot of pastors (worship, senior and otherwise) are not happy with the sound in their worship rooms every weekend. Sometimes, the guy behind the board is to blame. Perhaps they’ve not been trained, or they just don’t understand music or don’t know how to put a good mix [...]
Sustainability–How Do We Achieve It?
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about sustainability. If you missed the previous 2 posts, you can read them here and here. The first post is about what sustainability is not. The second talks about reasons we don’t tend to live sustainable lives. Today, I want to explore how to live sustainably. Now [...]
Preventing Insanity Among Presentation Volunteers
By now you probably know that I’m all about the volunteers. I keep tweaking my systems, formulating new processes and trying to come up with new ways to make life easier for our volunteers. Recently, we implemented something that has gone a long way to lowering the blood pressure of our ProPresenter operators. It’s so [...]
The Porch
Those of you that follow me on Twitter probably remember that a few weeks ago someone on the creative team had the idea that we should have a porch in church for one weekend. It actually makes more sense than it sounds at first; our theme for the weekend was The Front Porch: Practicing Hospitality. [...]
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