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Ask the Expert: Will sound engineering skills taught for analogue desks transfer to a digital desk?

By Guest Blogger | May 27, 2014

We had an email from Paul Keeping at City Life Church in Portsmouth: I have seen your DVD set for sound tech training for churches, we have just changed to a Allen & heath digital desk from the analogue one you are showing. What are your views on using this DVD although we have a […]

Ask the expert: with $2-$3k to spend what electric guitar, amp and pedal set-up would you recommend?

By Andy@Musicademy | May 19, 2014

You’ve got a budget of up to $3K. What do you spent it on? We had a request to make a recommendation for a young guitarist wanting to invest in his gear. Here are Andy’s thoughts. Its always fun to go fantasy guitar shopping on someone else’s cash. Big thing to remember though, all responses […]

Ask the Expert – Acoustic pedals for alternating pick and finger styles

By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2014

Rev Graham Hunter from London asks: “When leading worship on acoustic guitar, I sometimes want to adjust the tone to reflect the change between strumming with a plectrum, and then finger-picking. Should I get an EQ pedal, or a compression pedal, or both? And what do you recommend – both in terms of make / […]

Ask the expert: one of our singers is terrible but she doesn’t realise it

By admin | February 18, 2014

Post by Musicademy. Click through to the Facebook discussion above to read the original question and the advice people have offered so far. This is an excellent question outlining a problem faced by so many worship teams. What do you do when one of your musicians is simply not very able but doesn’t […]

How to do “All Age” worship really well – interview with Jo Squires from BIG Ministries

By Sam Hargreaves | January 23, 2014

Jo Squires leads BIG Ministries – who for the last 10 years have been specialising in children’s worship. They have increasingly been helping churches with ‘All Age’ services – which they see as quite different to exclusively ‘Children’s Worship’. Here’s Sam Hargreaves from Engage Worship interviewing Jo ahead of the sessions she is running in […]

Ask the expert – how to do “all age” worship well

By admin | January 20, 2014

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Ask the Expert – Recommended headset mic for budding junior singer

By admin | December 12, 2013

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Recommendations for mics with a large area pick up pattern

By Guest Blogger | March 27, 2013

We had an email from Terry who works for the U.S. Federal Courts in South Carolina. He asks: Do you have a recommendation for the best microphone for large area pick up pattern? I need to mic the gallery of a courtroom without having the individuals leave their seat to walk to a microphone. The […]

Ask the Expert – How to play drums with brushes

By admin | November 10, 2012

Carole Harding emailed asking about drum technique: “I wondered if you could recommend a book or DVD specifically about playing drums with brushes. I recently started to play in a gospel choir band & there are times when being able to play with brushes would be very helpful, to either get the right feel or […]

What guitar picks do you use? (Yes really!)

By Andy@Musicademy | October 2, 2012

Recommended guitar picks and plectrums I occasionally get emails asking for advice on what gear to buy and recently I was asked which guitar picks I recommend. When I started Musicademy I vowed never to get into the “What picks/strings do you use?” debate as it seems dangerously close to some kind of weird train […]