Running the sound in many churches has become Rocket Science.  The sound mixing boards have dozens of knobs, switches and jacks that create confusion for those who run the Sunday Service Sound.  It's no wonder that even the newest and most expensive church sound systems sound terrible.  What on earth are all these buttons and knobs for anyway?

 

Here's the good news!  You don't have to know what all these buttons and knobs do in order to run the sound at your church.  These sound mixing boards have been designed for bands and orchestras performimg in venues where a sound engineer (geek) who understands all the pushes and twists of the buttons and knobs fine tunes each microphone and instrument to create a mix of music and sound that is close to a fine recording... eh... if the geek...er...a... engineer, really knows how to tune the sound board.

 

When we install Audio Processing at your church, we pretty much do away with all the switches and knobs and focus on only the volume controls, or sliders on the sound boards.  The Audio Processing makes most of the adjustments that ensure bright, clear sound without  having to know what all the buttons and knobs are and what to do with them.

 

Do you know that DJ's at radio stations use sound boards that don't have all the knobs and buttons that most church sound boards do?  Do you know why?  Because the DJ's would not know how to adjust them all and the sound broadcast to radios would be terrible.  Each DJ would set the knobs to what they think sounds good and the sound on the radio would sound different each time a different DJ came on.  Radio DJ's have sound boards that only have volume controls for each microphone, tape machine, CD player and other devices.  DJ's can only adjust the volume and nothing else.  This ensures that one DJ will not turn up the bass really high and the next DJ will turn the bass down really low and turn up the treble very high.  Having only volume controls means the sound broadcast over the radio stays consistent, no matter which DJ is on the air.  The correct amount of bass and treble for the best sound is done automatically by Audio Processing, not the DJ or sound operator.

 

Having a sound board at church that operates the same way as radio stations ensures that sound operators will have only volume controls for each microphone, guitar, keyborad and other instruments and devices.  The sound operator only needs to know how to turn the volume up and down.  Since all of us turn the volume up and down (TV's, radios, stereo's, etc.), learning to run the sound at church is pretty easy!