New People

Welcome Tim Nauta to the sound team. Tim's a guy you can pick on for computer problems also, but for now we have him chained down to the recording mixer!
Keith

Subs

Mmmm subs
Ok, we have been messing with the subwoofers for the past few months, some of the issues we were trying to deal with were, low feedback from pastors mic, muddy vocal sounds, lack of thump from bass guitar and drums. I believe we have settled on a solution for now that seems to work well.
Mix
What we have done is place the subs on their own post fader mix, simular to a mix used for reverb. This gives us complete control over what gets into the subs and what doesn't. Leaving the aux set to post fader allows you to control the level of both the mid/high speakers and the sub with the channel fader. What goes in a sub? Kick drum and bass guitar, keyboards for sure, the rest is optional. The accoustics in the gym do not tolerate long sustained bass, since clairity is already poor it is best to limit what goes into the subs.
Setup
For the aux subs we are using a separate crossover and EQ, the DBX digital system controls the upper mid/high speakers. The original setup still exists and can be used if you don't see a need for seperate control over the subs, an example would be if we were showing a movie.
The signal chain is as follows;
Input Channel - Mix 10 - Peavey EQ - Samson crossover - snake send - left side of QSC amp -mono send to subs
Operation
This is my own personal way of setting up mixes.YMMV
Get the stage, monitors and band happy with their mix.
Check through all gains for clipping and low signals, noise from DI's
Adjust mic and monitor placement.
Listen
Get the band to turn down what is too loud....
Add vocals and EQ
Add guitar and keyboards and EQ
Add extras (brass,flute,chello)
Add drums and bass
Get out and walk around the room, adjust speaker placement as necessary.
Learn each song, what needs to be turned up or down.
Enjoy

Keith

Link for detailed info on aux subs

On the fly with powerpoint

This past weekend John was quizzing the audience about their Thanksgiving thoughts. He wanted a live update as people shouted out their answers. So we froze the slide show and typed in the answers and then re posted it on the screen, it was ok but (as Jason pointed out) seemed a little staged. Turns out there is a better way to do this. While the show is running you can type in (or add images) on the fly. Just leave the presenter view running and return to the slide, start editing and the changes you make will appear on the screen as you make them.
Keith

Video

On various Sundays, Brandon will be around videoing the services. We are trying out a few different ideas for recording the services and posting to the web site. Right now it is very low profile as no money has been commited to the project. Anyone having an interest in helping run a camera (once we get one) please let me know.
Thanks,
Keith

New People

Please welcome Kenton to the multi media team. You will also see his wife, Karen playing keyboard with team B on Sundays.

Nursery Video and Paging

As most of you know we have had a TV setup in the nursery for some time now. The parents using it have asked to update it so that there is a clearer picture and better sound. One of the changes I am trying is different camera positions in the gym. It also looks like we have to abandon the wireless feed as there is too much interferance with the signal (doesn't like going through walls). We have also purchased a wireless paging system for paging parents to the nursery. All of this is going to be installed onto a cart so that there is only one plug to attach each Sunday. To help with this we need to do some high level wireing with the beloved scaffold, if anyone can help on Sat. Oct. 14 from 9 to 11 please let me know.
Keith