Moving an amp offstage into an isolation booth can help reducing stage noise, increasing room on the stage, and improving the sound of the amp through the house speakers.  Leave it to Radial to help electric guitarists work with isolation booths.  read more »

I posted this question to a few audio tech's, "have you ever had a fire in the booth or on stage during an event?"  My favorite response was this one;

"Yeah, [it's] too depressing to talk about."

We can deny the possibility of a fire, but we can also be in that person's shoes in an instant.  read more »

Recording a church sermon (or the entire service) is part of our job.  Recording hardware is no longer limited to cassette tapes...and isn't always cheap.  Check out how recording can be done with a budget in mind.  read more »

December 1888, artist Van Gogh stalked Gauguin with a razor and then cut off the lower part of his own left ear lobe, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully." 

"New American Standard Bible (Matthew 26:51)  read more »

The latest newsletter from the Sweetwater store lists a new product - the Auralex GRAMMA.  Here's what they say:  read more »

Recently, a visitor asked for a list of things for their gear bag.  I've listed what I use as well as what I found others using as seem to best fit the church environment.  Here you go;

Tools:  read more »

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
and drift away.  read more »

My pastor was giving the sermon and he was totally "in the zone."  Then it happened.  Stepping to one side of the podium, his foot snagged a microphone cable.  He didn’t fall but his train of though was broken...by one lousy cable. If only something could have prevented this...  read more »

Cell phones buzz, ring, sing, tell jokes, and play a variety of audio when someone calls.  Cell phones can be set to vibrate.  They can be set to silent.  And they can still broadcast a signal that gets picked up by the church audio equipment.

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I was visiting a church to check out their Aviom system and noticed the funniest thing.  An Aviom unit (personal monitoring system) was close to the front of the stage and had a long cord leading into the first row of the congregation.  Unless a musician was going to play from the congregation, I couldn’t imagine why it was there.  "We use it to power headphones for a person who is hard of hearing."  read more »