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Sennheiser Mic Review

Mics Reviewed: Sennheiser e 903 dynamic handheld vocal/instrument microphone Sennheiser e 604 dynamic drum/percussion microphones with Easy Clamps Sennheiser e 602 dynamic kick drum/bass microphone Sennheiser e 614 condenser hi-hat/cymbal/instrument microphone It has been a while since my last contribution. In the past year, We have started a new record label, designing a new studio,…

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Microphones In Worship – Part 1

Nothing can disrupt a worship service like the annoying squeal of feedback from the sound system. Feedback is a ringing sound or squeal which occurs when the signal generated by the microphone is reproduced by a nearby loudspeaker which is then picked up by the microphone and the re-produced by the loudspeaker and picked up…

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Media Coach

By Tim Eason – ChurchMedia.net In high school I was a member of a championship football team. For those of you who know me, this may come as a surprise since I don’t have a large build. Well… it was a flag football team. I played in a Christian league for the school that I…

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Digital Consoles: The Perfect Volunteer

In today’s church, the most sought after “staff member” has got to be a trained volunteer. Can you remember the number of times you’ve had to run back and forth from the booth to the stage to adjust house and monitor levels simply because you didn’t have a volunteer that could run sound? A few…

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Quick Tech Tip

Together MID and SWEEP controls can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks from combating feedback to improving the way things sound through the PA or on recording. Here are some of those tasks & settings:  · Killing feedback  set MID at -6dB and slowly rotate SWEEP until feedback stops · Bonky sounding snare…

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CD Tips

In response to our “Planning to do a CD?” article, we have decided to share a few tips with you about making your own CD with your worship team. There are a ton of churches out who feel a need to make a CD of their music and fail to take into account the huge…

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Ready, Willing and Able

As most of you know, there is a shortage of capable volunteers for the audio engineer position. I am sure that I am not the only one that had these problems. Right? Maybe this story will inspire you to find a way to staff and fund your ministry. Maybe you will add a great idea…

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Can You Hear It?

Not many of us get exposure a large palette of microphones, to compare apples to apples. How would you like a chance to do that in a real-world environment…a church? This month I am doing exactly that. May 13th-17th, at Eastland Baptist Church, Tulsa, OK, I will be recording a 70-voice choir, grand piano, acoustic…

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Rear Projection

Do your choir and vocalists have a difficult time remembering all the words to songs you sing each week? Do they sometimes resort to the naming of fruit to get by? Or do they turn to their neighbor and watch their lips for help? If you are like me, you want the singers heads up…

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Just What Do We Do, Anyway!?!

I happened to be passing by the door to the church conference room some years ago just as our pastoral staff was finishing their weekly meeting. This was a particularly grueling week for me. As the audio support staff of one, I was putting in a lot of hours. I stopped to say hello and…

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