Teaching Church Audio Artistry | Church Sound Systems
It buzzes. It distorts. It howls. Welcome to the down-side of audio production. For all the wonderful ways you can manipulate sound, there are quite a few ways sound can be a royal pain. The good news is it doesn't have to ruin your day. Audio problems can be prevented through proactive means, resolved through immediate changes, or resolved through a bit of detective work. Today, you'll find out about all three. Audio problems occur for any number of reasons. Just a few of [keep reading]
You might be suffering from all three of these audio feedback problem areas. I've been emailing a sound tech overseas who has had feedback problems. In my initial email, I said it could be caused by one of a few things. As it turned out, he had all three conditions that were causing feedback. Let's get it work... Feedback is caused when a particular frequency becomes excited and is thus astronomically amplified causing the screeching and howling sounds. Reminds me of Halloween. But [keep reading]
You can get rid of that pesky feedback once and for all! Discover the three ways for ringing out the room and the one that you can perform today. Ringing out a room is a process for eliminating problem frequencies wherein those frequencies are prone to feedback in your room. You might hear it called "tuning the system" or "tuning the room." The last phrase "tuning the room" is actually a wrong phrase to use. You aren't tuning the room, you are tuning the house EQ to work in the [keep reading]
Not all feedback is eliminated in the same way. Feedback typically occurs when a microphone and a loudspeaker are too close together thanks to a singer dropping the mic to their side. In this case, let's call it user error. But have you ever had multiple people use the same microphone and suddenly you hear the ringing of feedback? Have you ever created feedback by altering the EQ of a channel? Let's find out why. What is feedback? Audio feedback is the sound created when a sound [keep reading]
The worship leader asked me a very good question after the practice; "How did we sound?" Simple question, right? At first thought, perhaps, but in truth, there are a lot of layers. 1. As the sound guy, I make them sound as good as I can. What do I say, "well, I took care of what I could?" 2. As a person in the congregation, I could say, "the singers need to hold the microphones to their mouth and not their chest.." 3. Then [keep reading]
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