Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Sound men/women

By Tim Bowdler | June 21, 2010

Advice for church PA and sound teams Sound men and women get a bad rap in churches. Musicians spend about 70% of their time complaining about their stage sound, their monitor mix, the irritating buzzes, the front-of-house levels – pretty much everything really. Give musicians the slightest excuse and they’ll moan about the sound. They’ll […]

Why DI?

By Andy@Musicademy | May 12, 2010

Why should musicians use a DI box rather than just plugging straight into the sound desk? This article was originally written back in 2010 and we’ve substantially updated it since then with some help from sound tech professionals Simon Lewis and Tim Horton who you can also see in the video clip below (thanks to […]

Questions of Sound – guest blog by Paul Twelftree

By Guest Blogger | March 30, 2010

We all know that the sound engineer is key to the sound of our worship bands but what are they actually there to do? On the one extreme are they there to exactly recreate the sound of the instruments within the band (perhaps coming onstage to hear the instruments – shock!) and faithfully present what […]

Creating fractal images for visual worship

By Guest Blogger | December 16, 2009

Here is an explanation for creating “fractal images” like the Christmas ones we published yesterday. Richard created the Christmas fractals using a freeware fractal generating program called Apophysis.  To read more about fractals, visit here. Apophysis generates random images using fractal mathematics. But the maths is completely hidden behind a friendly interface, so don’t be put […]

The sound engineer’s role in the worship team (and what makes it all worthwhile)

By Marie@Musicademy | November 17, 2009

Video footage from an introductory session at a recent Musicademy and B&H Sound training seminar with Brian Hillson reflecting on the role of the sound engineer. Oher posts you may like: 50 Tips – Worship Soundchecks What you need to run church sound – free handbook Mic technique video clip Worship leaders, you’re killing us […]

Sound Man. Church hero.

By Bob Kilpatrick | October 28, 2009

  SoundMan needs love. The church sound person is almost always a volunteer. This is not his full-time gig. During the week he’s repairing cars, selling insurance, cub reporting, peddling groceries, and on Sunday he becomes something other than a car repairer, insurance seller, cub reporter or grocer. He becomes -voila!- SoundMan! No one on […]

Mic technique – video clip from live sound training seminar

By Marie@Musicademy | October 20, 2009

Here’s a brief clip from one of our recent Sound & Worship Training Days. In this clip Brian Hillson of B&H Sound demonstrates basic mic technique and talks about what happens when it all goes wrong. You can see more of Brian, and the Musicademy team this Saturday in Southwell, Nottingham. There are tickets still […]

50 tips – Worship soundchecking

By Andy@Musicademy | September 10, 2009

  Sound checks can be time consuming, but there are ways to make them more efficient and less arduous. Most sound checks have three stages. 1st each instrument is line checked to make sure a signal comes through the desk, 2nd you decide what you want in your monitors and 3rd everyone plays together, stops […]

Training days for the whole worship team – Surrey & Notts UK – Just £10 per person

By Marie@Musicademy | July 24, 2009

  Sound and Worship training Musicademy, in association with B&H present two special training events for musicians, technicians and leadership team members. Only £10 per delegate The day starts with worship led by Musicademy followed by a range of practical seminars and hands-on workshops covering: Plenary sessions for all delegates: Role of sound in worship Common […]