I'm looking at a church system running an analog mackie board with four Sennheiser Freeport wireless microphones with noise problems. They also have wireless mic's by Shure and Audio Technica that don't have any line noise problems. I've turned down the gain on the freeport boxes but the line noise is still there.  Only goes away if I mute the channel. Any ideas? [keep reading]

I'm writing a few articles for the 2010 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Blog.  Here's a link to the current in reference to the ever popular volume issue.  Another should be up shortly. [keep reading]

For those DigiDesign / VENUE users, here's a bit of news from fohonline.com... "Once upon a time there was a company called Avid widely known in the video editing world. And Avid owned a company called Digidesign that made software called Pro Tools for audio editing. We in the live tribe began to care a few years ago when Digidesign unleashed the VENUE system and the addition of processing plug-ins changed our working environment forever. But now Digidesign is no more. No, VENUE is not [keep reading]

"I thought you might like this," said our worship leader as he handed me a Sweetwater catalog.  Flipping through it later that evening, I realized that the catalog had 101-level articles and some product wordings so as to appear catering to pastors and worship leaders.  Even the title of the catalog gave that impression. Is the average level of knowledge of the church sound tech low enough that there are that many non-tech people who are stepping out to make [keep reading]