By Andy@Musicademy | April 6, 2016
We recently had a customer pose a very good question. They’d been looking at the song ‘How He Loves’ and had a number of different chord charts for it, some aimed at guitar and some aimed at piano. Some were from official paid-for channels, others were freebies comped off the internet. The thing was, although […]
By Andy@Musicademy | March 2, 2016
Here’s a quick beginner theory lesson on the topic of bars, counting and chord charts. The lesson is taken from Musicademy’s Beginning Worship Guitar Course but has learning suitable for any musician. The course is available on DVD, as downloads and also via our streaming subscription service. All our guitar courses are detailed here. If you’d prefer […]
By admin | February 29, 2016
Hearing loop problem Neil Coode from Cranleigh in the UK asked us for help with a T-Loop problem. He says: “We have a rather nice hearing loop installed in our church. We also use one or two (depending on band) older wedge speakers for foldback. Unfortunately the wedges pick up signal from the hearing loop […]
By Guest Blogger | February 8, 2016
We ran an open question on the website and Facebook recently inviting you to submit your questions in relation to common problems with church sound for the crack team at SFL Group to solve. Rowland Elliot asked about a situation in which he encountered “a very loud screech” every time he turned one of his […]
By admin | January 26, 2016
We had a slightly strange “Ask the Expert” email from Mike Barco which our friends at SFL Group have done their best to answer. “I’m trying to capture the best recording on a quite creaky floor noise coming through the wall… Which microphone is best for this?” Now we’re not too sure if Mike is […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 22, 2016
We received a fascinating email from Liz from South Ruislip, UK who had been to one of our training days and had asked for advice on what keyboard to purchase for her church. We’d suggested the Roland RD800 which their Leadership Team agreed to. However, the proposed move to a more contemporary instrument has not pleased everyone. […]
By Guest Blogger | January 18, 2016
We ran an open question on the website and Facebook recently inviting you to submit your questions in relation to common problems with church sound for the crack team at SFL Group to solve. The challenge of building acoustics is a common one and something that Randy raised: “Our church organist is pushing to have […]
By admin | January 8, 2016
We wrote an article on recommended bass guitar strings back in 2009 and find that people are still commenting on it eight years later. A recent comment included a link to a very helpful Russian website with an indepth article about bass guitar strings (you can click through to it and use Google Translate to read […]
By Guest Blogger | December 28, 2015
We ran an open question on the website and Facebook recently inviting you to submit your questions in relation to common problems with church sound. The team at SFL have been through the responses and picked out the most common and interesting themes which we’ll be bringing you in a series of articles in the […]
By admin | December 9, 2015
Useful infographic from InfoComm.org. Click on the image (or right click to open in a new tab) to see it full screen.
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