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 Yellow Dot Fever
Unity
Background Music
Turn that thing down!
High Pass - Low Cut Filters
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| Yellow Dot Fever |  | If you haven't been blessed with a digital mixing desk that remembers all of it's settings, use yellow dots. The little dots make for great marking points for baseline settings, for group assignments, which channels need to be on, etc. You can use a sharpie to put little lines on them to indicate knob position in the aux or EQ sections. |
| Unity | | Unity or 0dB. This is a simple Q&D (quick and dirty) way to get the most out of the signal from an instrument or singer being sent to the mixer. When setting up a mic or instrument you want to start at unity and a flat EQ. Meaning, first turn the input gain or trim knob to its lowest position, set the EQ to flat (all knobs to 12 o'clock, generally), and fader to 0 dB or Unity. Turn down any aux or monitor sends. Then get the musician or assistant to sing or play at normat levels. Press the Solo or PFL switch so you can see the signal level on the meter. Slowly bring up the trim until the meter shows the signal peaking at or just above 0 dB or unity point. Since this an over simplification of this key function when setting up a channel, so we will be covering this topic in more detail in the Tech Articles section. |
| Background Music | | Many churches have background music playing, well, in the background before or after the service. The key here is "background" music. Members should not have to raise their voice over the music to be heard. Also, don't just stop or mute the channel, fade the music down slowly. |
| Turn that thing down! | | Is it me or are all musicians hard of hearing. Well, maybe not. But there are days when as the FOH engineer you may feel that way. Every now and then a musician, usually guitar players tend to crank up more than usual, especailly if he has control over his own volume. What do you do about it? First and foremost, remember that you are both on the same team. There is really not much you can do during the service. After the service meet with the musician and discuss the situation. Explain to him that you are trying to achieve the best mix for the congregation but because of his oversight by cranking up too load causes problems in the mix. If this technique does not work, setup a video camera in the middle of the congregation. View the tape together. This should be proof enough. Last step would be to consult woth the worship leader to discuss the matter. |
| High Pass - Low Cut Filters | | You should use your mixer's low pass or high cut filter on vocal mics. This filter cuts low frequency rumble and cleans up the mix over all when there are others singing together. This feature is used to reduce breath pops in leu of using foam windscreens. This filter may also be designated by either "<80" or "<75", refereing to the frequency that is being cut, i.e: below 80 hz or 75 hz. If you mixing desk does not have this button you can use the low know in the eq section of the mixer. This may not eliminate all pops and wind noice. Check you mixer's manual. |
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