Mixing

With the regular guitarist on vacation and the singer/guitarist out for surgery, I spent the last three weeks playing guitar in the church band instead of my regular post behind the mixing board.  It has been a great experience, and…
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I have been mixing the sound during the 11am service at my Church for a few months now.  At first, I had some big plans for improving the sound and was going to fix everything in a few weeks.  Since…
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Position the Mic to avoid popping your plosives! Put your hand an inch from your mouth and say “bumblebee”.   The vibration you feel in your hand is caused by the breath you use to pronounce the “B” sound (“B” and…
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Last Sunday I showed up at church with some big plans for improving the sound. I was planning to get the “air mix” (without the PA) sounding good, then rough in a PA mix, then tweak the monitor mix, then finalize the PA mix. But I didn’t have time for that.

Things are going pretty well behind the mixing board at my church.  I’ve had a couple of goof ups (a little ringing on the pastor’s mic two weeks ago, and I ran out of disk space on the recorder last week),…
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Last Sunday I experienced a self-discovery moment.  I decided to try out running the sound at my church.  I am not a newcomer to mixing boards.  In fact I have a nice 24-track board sitting 3 feet from me right now. …
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