Post by pwfirst on Jan 8, 2012 21:58:42 GMT -5
High guys, just thought you might be interested in what I have been up to lately.
I have just put the finishing touches On our praise team sound system, after 3 years of messing around it seems to be all worth it.
Here is the equipment list:
Amp #3 QSC 300 watt #2 run at 50%
1. Mains
2. Subs
3. front monitors
Peavey 900 Watt run at 30%
1. back Monitor for the drummer.
Board: Macky 24/8
EQ: dual Peavey mains and subs
dual DBX front monitors.
Sound processor: Beheringer : add a little studio reverb.
PA controller: DBX Rack PA
Mic's: Wireless System: #2 Audio technica 2000 leader and guitar
#2 AKG drummer's vocal mic/ additional hand mic and paster's mic
Wired: Shure 58 #3, 59 beta
Audio Tech M5
Condenser Mic MXL for the Keyboard ( have tried several other options and she likes this best.
Speakers: Custom design by Bill Fitzmaurice Mains and subs
Monitors: #2 Peavey ( use to be our mains.) #1 small Kustom 10 in for the drummer.
We put in #2 small wooden trap doors for the stage snakes and to store and keep the not used Mics out of the way. Worked great for almost no money. Stage boxes can get pretty pricey and still have no place to store the extra wires and mics.
My favorite toy is the DBX Rack PA. With this little toy you can pink the room, set limits for feed back and it really helped balance all the speakers. We can fine tune with the EQ's for our preferences.
We run the system in Mono and have full control of each speaker system. We can almost keep everyone happy.
So in closing, we have discussed several options that our church has done over the last 3 years to meet the needs of the Pastor and the praise team on a small budget.
Our praise team has now split in to two teams. Why did we do that?
1. Gives our praise team leader a little break.
2. Allows more people to participate in the praise team experience.
3. Gives us more flexibility in our music selections.
But it doubles the works of keeping the logistics of setting up the sound every Sunday. So I have set the stage up in quadrants and not by individual performers.
1. Back up singers and monitor and piano Lt side of the stage.
2. Lead section with monitor and Keys and my guitar Rt side.
3. Drums with monitor. We just repositioned the drums off center and is helped decrease the volume. We play at 85 Db so it is hard to keep the drum volume under control.
Yellow Team little yellow dots on the board at the levels
Purple team little purple dots on the board at the levels
Blue team ( on both teams ) don't have to use dots same people play every Sunday.
The board is color coded , every member always uses this same piece of equipment which is numbered too, same location on the board.
I walk in before the practice. and un-mute the colored tracks, put the sliders on the colored dots and we are ready to go.
That's the way we do it and it is much better than the unorganized fly by the seat of our paints that we use to do. Our sound is now consistent from Sunday to Sunday. The Boomy sound we started with is now gone, vocals are now clean and clear and out front , all is happy.
One last note. I use a small hand held digital recorder at the back of the room to listen to each Sunday and reset the next Sunday if there are any sound problems.
I need a new hobby.