Sound
Making MP3 Sermons nice and small
A typical MP3 song will be about 1MB / min. But being speech, sermons don’t need to be nearly as high quality as music. I did a bit of experimenting with the MP3 compression settings for sermons.
I’ve been getting 25 min sermons down to about 6MB, and still very clear and easy to [...]
An Australian Accent Audio Bible?
Nick and I were talking this morning about how there’s not much around by way of audio Bible’s in the Australian accent.
All I could find was was a Good News New Testament with background music here.
And if you want to make your own – licensing is problem…
but I just found this from our friends at [...]
Live Via Skype – Part 1
A great thing Churches across the world do is support missionaries overseas. One way of supporting missionaries is by keeping congregations informed so they can pray effectively. Learn how to do this by interviewing missionaries, live, during your services using Skype in this 4 part series.
Books on Mixing Audio
This book looks good. Anyone read it, or read something else really good on the art of mixing sound? (The science of mixing sound has of course been once and for all covered in this book.)
Getting rid of Feedback – Part 3
Most microphones are carefully designed so they don’t pickup sound equally from all directions. These so called unidirectional (or cardioid – which means ‘heart shaped’ which will make sense in a sec) microphones are designed to pickup very strongly what they are pointing directly at, only minimal pickup from the sides and virtually none from the back.
Lessons Learnt from Church Without Walls
A couple of weekends ago my church, St Pauls Anglican Menai, moved our Saturday service out of the church and into the local park. This was the first significant outdoor event I can remember us doing … In the process of putting it on we learnt a few valuable lessons.
Getting rid of Feedback – Part 2.
Every microphone will have a level at which feedback occurs. In an ideal world, the threshold of feedback will be well higher than the volume you want to drive your microphones and you will have no problems. In the real world, however, you will often have to get creative if you want to push your mic’s harder without feedback.
Getting rid of Feedback – Part 1.
Apparently, the US has been selling sonic blasters to China as a non-lethal weapon against ‘rioters’. These devices emit ‘high-energy acoustic waves that are said to be, at close proximity, louder than a jet engine. It is capable of reaching 150 decibels, enough to incite panic, inflict pain, and even cause hearing loss among large crowds’ … they could have just asked me, I figured out how to do this in church years ago.
Who’s in control of the volume?
Right at the heart of a great band mix is getting the relative levels of each instrument and vocalist right and getting the overall volume right. But what about when one instrument is outside of your control? What about when they are the loudest instrument?
In my experience, this is often the situation in our churches. [...]
How to coil a cable
Ever wondered how the pro’s do that over-under cable coiling thing?
This video shows you how.
