Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Church Sound: Church Sound: Don’t Forget The Basics
Pro Sound Web: One of the cool things I get to do is travel around to a lot of churches and conferences each year.
Most of the time, I’m just hanging out and talking to people, which I really enjoy. But when the session or service starts, I typically migrate towards front of house to see what’s going on.
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I think the lessons here have obvious applications beyond mixing audio. In every field, there are the basic techniques that have existed forever and then there is the new equipment that has come along recently. I'm a huge proponent of implementing new technology to enhance the overall production. It sometimes astounds me how that is not a universally held value. Yet even I believe that new technology is here to augment tried and true methodologies, not necessarily replace them. It sometimes can be easy to get caught up in the new fancy gizmo and sometimes even forget the overarching objective of what you are trying to do. I know I have definitely fallen victim to that pitfall on multiple occasions. It is certainly easy to do in Lighting with all the fancy toys we have. Clearly, Sound is no different! I thought the paragraph that talked about how sometimes you just have to suck it up and skip the fancy stuff was especially true. Everything is always a give and take, and sometimes you have to let go of certain things when time is tight.
I like how concise and to the point this article is, especially because that’s sort of the position it takes on mixing. As someone who’s kinda new to mixing this has a lot of useful information, because I still don’t have much of an idea where to begin. I did know about setting gain structures to start with, but I’m still not the best when it comes to setting EQs. I liked the approach that the author in the article takes to mixing, and I liked the anecdotes about people spending too much time on the technology and screwing themselves over. That sort of thing is definitely not isolated to sound, and it can be applied to most of what we do in theatre. I think that it would actually be pretty important for the freshmen to read this article before their rube project, because one of the biggest issues with it is people overcomplicating it. I don’t think that I’ll have the problem that the mixers who the article is directed at for a long tie, because I don’t know nearly enough about all of the high tech gear to get caught up using it. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though.
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