Thursday, November 02, 2017
Attention To Detail: Exploring An Important Route In The Path To Worship Tech Excellence
ProSoundWeb: Sometimes you start a position or get contracted for a job, and when you start digging into the audio system, you find out just how badly you’re needed. I recently began working at a small-ish church recently, so I’ll share my experiences with this and how I’m handling all of it.
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What an interesting article, that was not at all what I was expecting. The entire article focuses on how a sound engineer cleaned up the sound equipment of a church. I am not quite sure what the point was besides stating that sound equipment is important, that moderately sized churches need sound technicians, and that sometimes the engineering part os better than the mixing part. Personally, I love cleaning things so I would have very much enjoyed the project, but I am also confused about why exactly this article was written, and why the author felt the need to explain all of their organizational strategies. They used words like massaging for cables and described themselves as going "label crazy," because they put labels on every mic, as they should because that was their job.
I recently did the same thing mentioned in this article at a church. Although the system that I worked with didn’t seem to be as bad as the one in the article. Although I think I had more dust than what the article mentioned. Over the years of working in the performing arts, I have picked up a few habits. Chief among them is that whenever I need to take apart a system, I make sure that I know what cable came from where. I also tend to go a little label crazy. During the recent sound system upgrade that I did, I tested every hard run line, input, output and equipment that was attached. It took time. A lot of time, but I got it done and now the system is properly labeled and systems talk to each other and work with each other. Having an attention to detail for jobs like this is important. Not everyone has your skill set. I call it tech for dummies. As a technician, I don’t have the time, nor do they, to teach all the information that I know. I have to teach them their systems basics and some advance and then give them the tools needed to move forward. I also involve their tech people in the process so that they can see how I do something or how the cables are ran. This way, they are in a better place and with a little learning, can make upgrades easier.
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