"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." John Keats (1795 - 1821)  read more »

The other day, Dave(David) Wilcox posted a comment on my blog post on Dealing with Anger.  He included his site name, so I checked out his blog.  Wow, what a great example of providing recap notes for everyone on his team to see.

A good example is his 11.23 Reverb post.   read more »

Smashing pumpkins, that's a great way to deal with anger.  I've even been known to decimate hundreds of aliens with the quick-fire of my computer mouse.  Everyone has ways of dealing with anger and letting off a little steam.  By the way, I don't go around smashing pumpkins but it does sound fun!  read more »

I've heard my share of criticisms on the quality of the church audio.  Years ago when we ran a sub-par system, criticism was common.  Feedback in the system was common and the production quality just wasn't what it could have been.  Ah, the good old days.  read more »

Thanksgiving and Christmas are around the corner.  People are going on vacation.  That means I have to deal with sound person availability.  In fact, I want to go on vacation out of town just so I don't have to run sound.  read more »

The biggest gift I can give my sound team is knowledge.  Comments and polls here on this site show the demand for knowledge is ever present.  Starting this week, I'm giving my team a monthly church sound newsletter.  read more »

This weekend, one of the guitarists broke a guitar string during a song.  I realized that I'd seen him bust a string three different times over the last year or two.  Being a guitarist, I asked him a simple question after the service.  read more »

Last night, I watched the series finale of "Feasting on Waves."  It was a Food Network program where Alton Brown sailed through the Caribbean and learned what the natives eat.   At the end, with Alton sitting on the beach, he gave his thoughts on enjoying food.  Particularly, he spoke how food just tastes better when the cook has created it as an act of love.  Hang with me, and I'll show you how this relates to running church sound.  He said food can be created lovingly by a chef, but not necessarily with love.  read more »

I saw the survey results about listening with a critical ear...and I want to be honest with you.  It's hard for me to worship when my head is too busy thinking about how I would have EQ'd the sound or how I might have arranged the volume levels.  I want to crack my head open like a chicken egg and dump my brains out.  I don't want to think about sound!  The survey showed many of you also suffer from, what I like to call, the mixer mentality.  So what can I do about it?  What can YOU do about it?  read more »

Abraham Lincoln said this..."Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."  Yet I'll bet more of us are inline with this statement from Jonathan Winters..."I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."  read more »