Wedding Contract

Download the free wedding contract template for audio and video production. Easy to understand and easy to modify.
Newsletter Template

Create your own church audio newsletter for your team with this simple newsletter template. (View it in Print layout format within Word)
Team Organization

Download these team documents for tracking your existing team as well as recruiting new team members.
Inventory List

Track all your audio equipment with this excel sheet. Great way to see what you have and keep for insurance purposes.

Often, you will see the line "when turning on three channels, the total output volume increases." There is science in them thar words!
Failure comes when we forget the fundamentals, be it basketball, chess, or live sound production.
Sonic space is the frequency range that an instrument or a vocal sound takes up when it is played. That's the short definition but it's like saying paint is red or green in color without talking at all about what happens when you paint one color over another when the paints are still wet.
This past weekend, I was training a new volunteer for my sound team. He was sitting in the sound booth with me during the service so I could show him the work that's done during the service. Several times, I found myself saying "you can do [whatever] for a slight improvement in the sound."
Setting EQ vocals is easy if you know what you're doing. The good news is much of that work is rather formulaic. Before I get to the "how" part, let's look at the "why." It's important to know why you are EQ'ing a singer so you can produce the best result.
I'm a tweaker. Not a twitter'er, a tweaker. I just can't stop from tweaking the mixer during the first one or two songs. Unless you have a band full of professional singers and musicians, it's probable their practice session and performance session (Sunday morning worship sets) are going to be different. I usually hear the difference in how the singers blend and how loud they sing. The musicians sometimes play louder - and occasionally softer. Many times, if they sound sloppy during practice, they sound tight during the performance times. All this to say, what I might mix during the practice to compensate for volume or "sloppiness/tightness" can be different during performance time. But when do I stop tweaking? 