even if you're not taking myt, what would you like to learn about sound/pro audio? or our own sound/band setup? what would you like to see different?
i'm just looking for specific feedback for myt, learning and also general feedback.
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I think one thing that would be helpful is to know how to mix songs. I recognize that this is really an art and up to the preferences of the person who is doing the mixing but it would be good to get some general guidelines.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know how to best EQ voices so they don't feedback. Also more specific training on how to listen and identify the frequency to change or modify to make a person's voice sounds "better". I know Tim, John and Mike can just hear and modify, but for some of us it is a lot of guess work.
ReplyDeleteGot a LOT I'd still like to learn..
ReplyDelete1- Although the theory of the compressor has been explained to me countless times, I'd like the chance to fiddle with the attack/gate/etc to get a better feel for what an adjustment would do to each.
2- Not sure how relevant this will be over the summer, but I'd like to personally learn how to set up a full set of drums. People generally spread out and take care of their own tasks during setup, but if someone is missing (esp the person responsible for setting up the drums), it's hard to compensate for the absence.
3- This may not be sound related, but I'd like to learn more of the behind the scenes work of posting the mp3s (creating user names, passwords, etc). I know most others know this from their backgrounds in engineering, but it's completely foreign to me.
4- I'd like to learn how to set up overflow equipment, especially as we'll need this in the fall.
5- I'd like more general knowledge on how sound & video work together (probably goes hand-in-hand with overflow).
6- I'd like to learn about how the whole skype process happens. I realize it's a bottleneck since few people know the full setup and app, but it'll become more and more of a common practice as we continue planting churches.
I'd like to learn how to listen for highs, mediums, and lows; how to EQ a room; how to use the compressor; what to look out for during special setups (such as weddings); and how to do it all quickly (as in the amount of time we have for a Sunday run-through).
ReplyDeleteHello John hyung,
ReplyDeleteHere are some things that I'd like to learn
1. Similar to Esther, the Compressor but for both singers and drums. Still haven't found a good setting for the drums but learning the theory and how the compressor settings affect the drum sounds would be helpful.
2. Exact settings for your recordings (i.e. Bit rate, sample rate, etc.)
3. Setting up stereo on your board (i.e. how you assign subgroups)
4. Hands on using and setting the DBX PA Drive rack (specifically how to EQ a room, the different curves and setting highs and lows for the crossover, etc.)
5. Power. How to distribute power for all the sound components, learning the output per receptacle and understanding general power theory and how it impacts sound.
How to EQ guitars/drums and set compressors for drums
ReplyDeleteHere's what I would like to know...
ReplyDelete1. How to EQ different songs. I know it depends from song to song, and it's different between singers and such. I think just some kind of general rule of things would be nice.
2. How to setup crossovers, compressors, DBX mics, recorders, and other equipment we might have. How each of the equipment works, and how to do adjustments on it to achieve best sound quality.
3. Setup between sound and video. For Sundays I know there are two channels that goes to the video, but I never had a chance to look where those two cables came from. Since we are working pretty closely with video in terms of setup, I would like to know a little more about how they're all related. I think a crash course on how the video side setup would help too.
4. How do we connect with skype and different elements needed (video feed, sound feed, etc.)
5. General overflow setup (in terms of where we're getting sound from, and how it works)
6. Feedback crash course - For example this past G-Live when there are mulitple wireless on stage and feedback is present, how can you quickly identify which mic it is and kill a specific freq. I kinda learned it the hard way.
7. General placements of instruments and vocals. I know we have a general placement as what goes where, and I know there are other variations at other churches. I think just general explanation of the placements and why we're arranging it that way.
8. I think different case studies will be helpful for me. Eg: what equipment needed for wedding, mission trip, GLive, etc. Where and how each equipment is placed, advantages and disadvantages of putting equipments at specific locations, etc.
9. I would also like to know some of the post production audio as well. It would be nice if I can eventually learn how to do post production mixing, either on a praiseset or glive mic mixing.
Hi John oppa,
ReplyDeleteEventually I would like to learn everything that's listed here =)
But I was wondering if this might be helpful to sound people - learning some basic video setup? e.g deck, skype sessions. It'll take at most 30mins of training I think... Maybe we can intergrate it into the 8-week sound MYT this time around?
Dennis, we use a program called iTunes-LAME at the recommendation of Mosaic b/c of podcasting purposes. we use the following setting: -v -V 6 -m m -h --resample 44.1. their technicians recommended this setting for podcasting b/c it makes the playback better. the file ends up being about 1/2 the original size.
ReplyDelete1. knowing how or where's the best place to control the final audio amplitude/volume that hits house speakers: amp gain (both when it's a deck like the QSC or built-in amp/speaker combo), compressor gate/release, mixer single channel gain or mixer subgroup gain/fader or mixer L/R out fader.
ReplyDelete2. projectors: what makes some projectors better than others, and how to configure the image (keystone, mirror/flip image, etc.)? When it comes to image quality, which settings do we set at the device level (laptop) and which settings do we configure on the projector itself (contrast, brightness, color balance, etc.)?
And all the other things mentioned above.