So the responsibility of your church sound has been dropped in your lap? Or maybe you’re the lone volunteer who shoulders everything tech in your church?
If you’re in church tech, we’re sure you’ve had that moment when were like a deer in headlights.
Never fear.
We’ve all been there.
Phil shares three tips that are sure to help anyone to start leading church sound tech. And even if you’ve been doing it for years, now, I’m sure tip number three is something for you to think about.
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Links & Stuff
- Great Church Sound
- Carl Barnhill Talks Church Tech Volunteers
- 4 Acoustic Tips That Will Help Your Church Sound System
- A Sound Worship Experience
- 5 Life Lessons from a Sound Engineer in the Church
- Church Tech Philosophy: Mind the Sound Mix
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Zach says
One of the things you guys may not have realized is that when you have a db meter in the booth it’s not giving you the loudness. It’s only giving you the loudness of the quietest spot in the building – the back of the building. You should conciser the entire environment:
-If the room is 20m long and at the back its 92db it will be ~119db 1m in front of the speakers.
-If the room is 40m long and at the back its 92db it will be ~124db 1m in front of the speakers.
That guest group that was running up to 120db:
-If the room is 20m long and at the back its 120db it will be ~147db 1m in front of the speakers.
-If the room is 40m long and at the back its 120db it will be ~152db 1m in front of the speakers.
Ouch – that would be not good for your hearing if you were sitting up the front.
You might also want to also consider the dynamic range. If you have a FOH that is going from relay loud too quite back and fourth that can be relay detracting and can degrade the overall listing experience – particularly in music.
Phil Schneider says
Great points, Zach. For us, since we can’t measure up front without being distracted, we measure from the sound both, which isn’t actually in the back, though it is in the balcony. This isn’t the best place to measure, but since we measure consistently from the sound booth we can compare the measurements, even if it is louder for the parts of the crowd closest to the stage.