Why won’t your guitar stay in tune? One of the most consistent top searches on this website is ‘my guitar won’t stay in tune’ and we tackled the question in an “Ask the Expert” post back in 2009. Tuning problems can be so frustrating. The first thing to check is that you have a decent […]

  Another question from our live Ask the Expert session held a few weeks ago with our panel of Tech and Church PA specialists. Whilst you can scroll through all the chat on the event wall, we are also running the questions as part of our Ask The Expert blog posts on technical matters. Feel […]

  Surrendered Part 2 – Submission & subordination: Things that suck (until you learn them)   Submission is one of those words that make people bristle. Cringe. Wince. Barf. Or otherwise react adversely. I’m not going to make a case for mutual submission and submission to authority because scripture already does that, a little too well […]

Brad Schlievert asked a question about the Line 6 Pod HD 500 on our recent live Ask the Expert seminar: “I have a question,about the Line 6 Pod HD 500 and dotted eighth delays. With my Boss dd20 I can select dotted eighth under tempo and set the delay time separately, does the POD HD500 do […]

Worship Vocals Course Online Our best selling Worship Vocals Course DVDs are now available as a set of 13 online downloads. These are designed for: Customers on a budget who prefer to buy one section at a time Customers wanting instant access to a lesson – it’s simply a case of click to download Customers only wanting to […]

  We posted a question recently concerning micing and setting up good vocals and guitar amps. Tim Horton from SFL Group made the comment: “Setting up a good vocal – you can’t go wrong with an SM58 here. Sing straight into it (it should be touching your top lip!); set the desk gain according to […]

  Our friend Graeme Young has just published a wonderful little book called Luke into Jesus: How to Live as Children of His Kingdom. Graeme is a superb communicator across all age spectrums and this book is a helpful guide to understanding what is written about Jesus in Luke. Younger readers will find that the […]

At our live Ask the Expert session Timothy Shin asked: “How would you advise a church plant with $10k budget for sound equipment to get started off well? (contemporary worship style/look)” Tim Horton, SFL: The most critical piece of kit you can buy is the SPEAKERS. I would try to spend 50% of your budget on speakers […]

  Surrendered Part 1 – Surrendered to God   No doubt you’ve heard about the challenge given to D.L. Moody: “It remains to be seen what God will do with a man who gives himself up wholly unto Him.” (or some variation of…) And Moody’s answer was basically “I’ll be that man.” And he was. We […]