Last time I made some observations on the iPad, and have come to the conclusion that it’s really a viable platform. I’ll admit it; I want one. I won’t likely buy one, personally anyway, at least until the 2nd generation is released. Unless the actual production version adds a few things… But I digress. Today, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yamaha’
Yamaha Announces M7CL-48ES
Yamaha recently introduced an addition to the M7 line with the M7CL-48ES. It’s basically an M7 but with only 8 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs on the control surface, along with an EtherSound port to connect up to three 1608ES Stage Boxes. So instead of eating up your three card slots with EtherSound cards [...]
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 [...]
EQ Libraries
One of the cool things about digital consoles is that you can save stuff you need to use again. Sometimes, we take this too far, and simply recall last week’s mix and call it good. That’s not really the right way to do things, as so much has changed from last week. Even if the [...]
A Couple Useful Links & A Personal Update
Well, it’s Miscellaneous Wednesday, so I thought I’d share a few things with you that I’ve found useful. First of all, I saw a Tweet last week from @Macs In Church that was a link to a pretty interesting site if you work with video at all: Zach Poff Software. Zach Poff is a New York [...]
A Few Great Resources
First off, I want to say I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support regarding my upcoming transition off the Upper Room staff. This is an amazing online community, and I am very thankful for the e-mails, tweets and leads for new positions. I am encouraged and confident we will have a new direction soon. [...]
Equipment List
Since I’ve received several comments on recent posts that start with, “Is that a [fill in the blank]?,” I thought I’d run down the list of equipment we put in our new worship space. Almost all of it is new, since we came from another church that had a pretty complete, though not very good, A/V [...]
Buying a New Mixer Pt. 2
Picking up from where we left off yesterday in our discussion of deciding on the best mixer… Feature Set What types of new features are you looking for? More groups, VCAs, a bigger Matrix, better EQ, better metering, direct outputs, mute groups, and/or automation are all found on boards at various price points. These are [...]
Groups, VCAs and DCAs Part Two
In the previous post, we got started talking about groups. Most church sound boards have groups. Some have VCAs. As a church sound volunteer, it’s important to know what they do and how to use them. To recap, Groups are additional mix busses on your board that allow you to collect inputs and make them controllable by [...]
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