Ambient Mics for Your Live Stream Mix
One of the most disappointing things when you hear your live stream mix for the first time is how it sounds nothing like it sounded in the room. Well, I’ve…
Ep 20: The Best Way to Plan for Worship ft. Weston Williamson
Over-planning… Under-planning… Us worship leaders have been guilty of them both at one time or another. Thankfully, Weston has some great tips on how to make planning for worship simple…
SOLVED: Live Stream Sounds Dull
When your live stream makes it to Facebook, YouTube, or wherever it’s going, it tends to sound a little dull. And this can be perplexing because it sounded just fine…
Ep 19: Hidden Secrets of Planning Center ft. Joshua Riggs
Joshua has been leading worship for over 17 years. His passion is to help equip the church with quality resources so they can spend less time and money looking for…
SOLVED: Live Stream Not Loud Enough
One of the biggest challenges with a live stream mix is that it is not loud enough. You’ve likely dealt with this problem, so let’s solve it once and for…
Ep 18: The Enemy of Great Church Sound ft. James Wasem
Great church sound. It’s what we all want, isn’t it? I suppose that’s why our guest, James Wasem, named his book Great Church Sound. I have a copy of it,…
Simple Live Stream Sound Setup
There’s all kinds of strategies out there for improving your live stream mix. Most require you to use a different mixer for your live stream and set up a control…
Behringer FLOW 8 Unboxing
Get the FLOW 8 (click here) Behringer just came out with a cool little mixer called the FLOW 8. At just $298, this 8-channel digital mixer is packed with some…
Switching to In-Ear Monitors on a Budget
Making the switch from floor wedges to in-ear monitors has major benefits: Stage noise is drastically decreased which in turn improves sound for the congregation. The band becomes ‘tighter’ because…
The Ultimate Guide for Choosing Audio Cables
Does your sound system buzz, hiss or make some other kind of unwanted noise? The problem is most likely rooted in bad cables. Regardless of how good your mixer, amps…
How to Become a Better Problem Solver with Church Sound
It’s Sunday morning rehearsal, time is strapped, and something goes wrong with the sound. It worked just fine last week, why is it not working now? You frantically search for…
3 Ways to Lower Stage Noise
In many churches, the sound coming from the stage is louder than the house mix…and this is a problem. You will never experience a quality mix if stage noise is…
Complaints about church sound? Here’s how to handle it.
Mr. Opinionated is approaching the sound booth…again. Do you pretend like you can’t see him and walk away? Or, listen to his hundredth complaint about how loud it is and…
The Complete Guide to Audio Gating
I want you to imagine standing in front of a gate that leads to someone’s mansion and whispering, “Open, please”, but nothing happens. Then, you yell, “OPEN PLEASE”, and this…
5 Tips for Achieving Consistent Sound Every Week
Keeping sound at church consistent from week-to-week is tough. There are tons of variables that change every week – even temperature and humidity affect live sound. With everything changing, how…
