David Leuschner of Digital Great Commission Ministries interviews audio legend Buford Jones about his 47 year career as an FOH engineer. Topics in this episode include: Buford being one of the first to use an audio console with parametric EQ Pioneering stereo mixing...
Over the years, I’ve worked with countless churches, and one trend that keeps catching my eye is the tendency to overcomplicate the audio mixing process. It’s all too easy to get swept up in the latest gear, shiny new plugins, and rigid methodologies promoted by...
In my early days in the recording industry, we used a practice called the car-test. Simply put, to hear how your mix translated to the most likely listening environment, you’d make a copy of your mix (typically on cassette back then), pile into the Chevy Nova with the...
RDL is proud to announce their latest creation, the RU-NMP44, a cost-effective, quality network mixing processor that delivers the flexibility of network audio for any system size or budget. Designed to be versatile, and to support a wide range of system designs, the...
Part of my day job as the Director of Marketing for Allen & Heath USA involves traveling out to music festivals and tradeshows across the country to support the brand and capture content. I happen to be writing this article from the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas,...
One of the most disappointing things when you hear your live stream mix for the first time is how it sounds nothing like it sounded in the room. I’ve got some good news for you. Your room mix was way better than the live stream sounded. The reason it sounds nothing...
I love it when great technology becomes accessible to almost everyone. Such is the case with In-Ear-Monitor systems, commonly referred to as IEMs. Thanks to technical innovation and market competition, even churches with extremely modest budgets can take advantage of...
Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is now shipping the Silk Vocal plugin, a smart EQ and Dynamics plugin for vocals. Silk Vocal takes your vocals from raw to pro—in no time. Using innovating...
Welcome back everyone, this month's question comes from Dominic in Syracuse, NY, he asks "As the new tech team member on our tech team, I seem to be struggling with feedback, please help me understand it". Feedback can easily ruin the mood of a worship service – here...
The challenges drums create on the worship platform manifest themselves in multiple areas; sound quality, musical technique, stage space, the visual aspect, and most prominently, loudness. As someone who has been helping churches with audio for decades and a former...
One of my favorite things to do is train church audio people. Most of the time, it’s on the heels of a recent equipment upgrade — a new console, PA, or an entirely new system in a brand-new building. These are exciting times, and it’s a great time for a church to...
In a previous article, I explored how to encourage participation with a great vocal mix. This article will cover the rest of the mix. The goal of any mix is to communicate. We aren't just trying to make the band on stage sound good, though that is a part. When...
Arguably the most important aspect of any given mix on any given Sunday in any given church is the vocal. I know some guitar players will disagree here. And drummers. Drummers will definitely disagree. But when people can’t hear the vocal, they won’t sing along....
Welcome back everyone, over the last few weeks, I have received a few trouble-shooting questions. Church sound systems can vary in size and capability, each building or space design can have its own challenges. So, let’s talk tech! Technical skill is required to set...
Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, announces new updates for the Waves Cloud MX Broadcast Audio Mixer. With this update, Cloud MX now supports 32+2 faders via dual Waves FIT...
Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, announces the availability of the Cloud MX Audio Mixer, a 100% cloud-based audio mixer with superior sound quality for cloud broadcast environments. Cloud...
The second-generation ASI Audio 3DME Gen2 Active Ambient Monitoring System consists of Active Ambient earphones with embedded binaural MEMS ambient microphones, an updated bodypack mixer/controller/DSP processor/headphone amplifier with an included jumper cable to...
Real talk. Mixing multiple channels of audio can be hard. Many of us have years of training and experience and it can still be tricky. But mixing your own personal monitor feed does not have to be hard. This article will give you an approach to mixing your own...
CFX Conference and InfoComm among 10 confirmed stops providing first-hand experience with the company’s new spatial sound design and live mixing tool
Noted FOH engineer Robert Scovill talks on March 24 with John Cornelius, technical director at Orchard Hill in Pittsburgh, about leveraging audio technology to bring a new sonic dimension to worship services.
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