Do you load in and load out your system every weekend? Does your church meet in a school, movie theater, community center, or other location that requires the church to provide the gear? Portable churches have unique audio gear needs and the below highlights three custom systems, by budget ... 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
Are you hauling AVL equipment in and out of a venue each weekend because your church doesn't have it's own building? There is a lot that can go wrong. There's a lot that people do wrong. Chris and Brian want to help by talking about the ways in which you can streamline your load-in/load-out ... Read More
"Would you run sound for us?" my friend asked. "Our regular guy isn't available." Without hesitation, I accepted. I'd subbed for bands with nice portable systems. And my friend's a smart guy. It would be fun - oh, if only. From his point of view, their audio system worked. Worked, yes, but ... Read More
Sunday, I attended service at a portable church. After the service this past Sunday, I helped clear the stage area. That's when the idea for this list started. Here are ten tips that will help any portable church with a faster setup and teardown...and help the sound guy keeps ... Read More
The number of portable churches is increasing. I'm talking about churches that rent building space for their services. Ten years ago, I worked at such a church and our equipment cases were huge plastic tubs and the case for the mixing unit. Plastic containers are wrong for gear storage for a ... Read More
