In a prior article, I mentioned the ways of getting a good acoustic guitar sound through the different types of sound amplification (built-in guitar amp, sound hole pickup, and instrument microphone. In this article, I'll be turning to equalization. Please note that some of this information is targetted to first-time sound operators, such as the HPF usage. My point is to show how simple it can be to EQ a basic guitar sound. First things, first...on each channel on the [...keep reading]
Micing a piano – great offsite post
August 11, 2008 Mixed by
Check out the post of Basic Mic'ing Techniques for Piano from ChurchAudio.I'm finding some worship team pianist's like to play a regular piano instead of an electric such as the Clavinova. While a baby grand does have a great sound, toss in a guitar, some drums, and a whole congregation singing, then you see why you need to mic the piano. JB shows in his article that it usually takes more than one microphone. [...keep reading]
Don’t Let Your Sound Flatline
July 28, 2008 Mixed by
A common approach to sound mixing is the three step approach;1. Set fader's at 0 point (that's about 3/4 up the fader).2. Set the gain.3. Turn on the channels4. Wait until the end of the service.Looking at the fader's, they are all in a flat line. A flat line is a great place for your faders to sit because in the position of unity, they provided the most granular control. They also allow you to bring your faders back inline to a base level if somone plays with your faders. [note: read more [...keep reading]
EQ The Sound Stage: 13 Easy-to-Follow Steps
July 10, 2008 Mixed by
Mixing a worship team is more than just setting sound levels. Mixing involves bringing out the particular frequencies in each voice and musicial instrument that, when combined together, present a high quality emotional sound. A high quality sound means no low hums, no muddy sound, no high tinny sounds, and to better think of it, listen to a well eq'd classical music cd. In classical music, there are so many unique instruments each with their own ranges and [...keep reading]
EQ 101 – High, Mid, Low, and Experimentation
July 8, 2008 Mixed by
Let's start with something familiar...the radio. Your radio has an EQ. Early radios had treble and bass knobs. This enabled you to either increase or decrease the relative frequencies. Boosting bass would involve kick drum sounds, bass guitar sounds, even low bass singers. Decreasing the bass would reduce some of those signals. Increasing treble would increase sounds in the upper register - think flute, upper piano octaves, and the high soprano voices. The common vocal range is [...keep reading]
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