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I know people who work on dead bodies.  I have several friends who, after graduating from college, went on to medical school.  They were given cadavers (dead bodies) which lasted throughout much of their schooling.  They dissected the bodies so they could learn how the body works; where nerve bundles are found and how muscles are connected, among other things.  In time, understanding the parts of the body meant gaining a better understanding of how the body works together as a whole. more »

The brain is amazing.  You can tell two instruments apart when they are playing the same melody at the same time.  In fact, your brain takes all the overtones (harmonics) that make up the sound of one instrument playing one note and you just hear one trumpet or one piano sound.  You don't "hear" all the different frequencies in one instrument as your brain uses unconscious inference to group the similar objects together as one. more »

Check out the post of Basic Mic'ing Techniques for Piano from ChurchAudio.

I'm finding some worship team pianist's like to play a regular piano instead of an electric such as the Clavinova.  While a baby grand does have a great sound, toss in a guitar, some drums, and a whole congregation singing, then you see why you need to mic the piano.  JB shows in his article that it usually takes more than one microphone.

Mixing a worship team is more than just setting sound levels.  Mixing involves bringing out the particular frequencies in each voice and musicial instrument that, when combined together, present a high quality emotional sound.  A high quality sound means no low hums, no muddy sound, no high tinny sounds, and to better think of it, listen to a well eq'd classical music cd.  In classical music, there are so many unique instruments each with their own ranges and uniqueness.

Here is a simple 13-stage process to mixing;

Stage 1: more »