In addition to my work in professional audio, I’m a bit of a Hi-Fi enthusiast. I have a modest listening room at home and enjoy exploring different styles and eras of music and studio production. The Hi-Fi world, often referred to as the “audiophile” community, is...
This question comes up often in church AVL forums, and it's one I hear frequently. Here's the part some find irritating about my usual response: the definitive answer is... It depends! But don't worry—I do have some concrete guidelines (yes, actual numbers!) I'll...
Like all houses of worship, The Crossing, a 1,400-seat Christian church in Columbia, Missouri, seeks to craft a clear and consistent message for its visitors and members, and that effort is greatly aided by having the right production equipment on the stage and in the...
A while back, a friend approached me after I finished mixing FOH at a large church. He said, “I loved your mix today. When you mix, I can hear everything on stage!” I thanked him for the compliment, but in my mind, I was thinking, Well, today you could hear everything...
Lots of questions seem to be coming in regarding stage volume and audio clarity. The fact of the matter is that most of the time, a band that is too loud onstage often sounds distracting compared to one that makes a conscientious effort to monitor their stage volume....
As we closed the books on 2024 and stepped into 2025, like most people, I’ve been reflecting on the work I’ve done and the lessons learned during this season. I never set out to track my “at-bats,” but as part of my weekly audio work for a large church, I keep a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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