Audio Fusion Systems is a new contender to the personal monitor mixing realm and they are unlike everything else in one big way. They claim you can get pro-level wireless monitoring using software on the devices you already have. And it's unbelievably affordable and easy to use. Does their ... Read More
In my early days of church audio, I would have asked for a piece of equipment and said, "We have to have this or the world will end!" As you know, the Book of Revelation doesn't indicate any pro audio gear deficit as a sign of the apocalypse so my requests were denied. Years later, I'm taking a ... Read More
The question of, "Should we upgrade now," is one I hear from time to time. Every piece of gear will eventually need to be repaired, replaced, or upgraded. There are five times when a replacement or an upgrade is due. I need to pause and say that an upgrade does not mean an improvement in ... Read More
All live vocal microphones are not the same. All singers do not sound the same. Pairing the right singer with the right microphone gives you a better sound from the start. This article focuses on the vocal microphone frequency response aspect and how it affects the sound. I've included the ... Read More
Portable church audio, video, and lighting can be a beast of production work each week. Load it all in, pack it all away, and hope everything in between goes smoothly. On episode 32 of the podcast, Chris Huff and Brian Gowing discuss the biggest mistakes made in each of those areas - audio, video, ... Read More
For those of us who constantly have to work with racks, both in the IT world and the AVL world, cage nuts are a necessary evil. If you don’t know what a cage nut is and why they’ve been the bane of many a system techs existence, check this picture out. That little innocent looking thing in ... Read More
Time to talk DI boxes and answer all the related questions I get. For example, what’s the difference between an active direct box and a passive one? For that matter, is there a difference in audio quality between a $40 passive DI and a $200 passive DI? And then there’s the big one, “do I even ... Read More
I heard from people suggesting a low-cost alternative to high-end in-ear earphones and I had to give them a try. I wasn’t expecting much from a company I’d never heard of, where the product was only available on Amazon, and they were priced at $32. That’s every reason to think they’d sound bad. It ... Read More
