Friday, December 5, 2014

Abcs Of Church Sound System Design

By Claudine Hodges


At the same capacity, the price of tools (consoles, players, recorders, devices, etc.) is practically tenfold in less than a decade. But the musician is faced with the requirement to also take the sound-engineer, not always with the necessary education. The sound-engineer has also become, therefore, musician, or operator specializing in IT management tools used (church sound system design).

Gradually, the devices have offered new processor means recorded or created sounds. The devices were first hardware and pride and reputation of recording studios, and with the advent of digital technology and specialized software, softwares became known as plug-ins. For some music, mostly using tools (or instruments) electronic loops, etc Midi, the line between sounds recording and mixing becomes more blurred.

The mixer function appears in 1970s and became a specialty. The mixer makes the mixing of source elements from various sources, provided by: Sounds editor "direct" (when there is one), which fixes, cleans and improves sounds dialogues after the image editing; Post become indispensable since the emergence of multichannel recording dialogues shooting.

Sounds editor that seeks the best sounds (effects and atmospheres) can enrich soundstrack and adapt the script and narration of film. Sounds effects, recorded by a buzzer mounted by sounds editor. The film is the last post mixing operation is a sensitive time, sometimes painful for the director, one knows, with mixing, it is at the end of his creative process, faced with doubts and regrets, his work will be final (also colloquially compared to childbirth syndrome).

The former is common in Hi-Fi world. The second solution is preferred sounds as it allows greater flexibility (it is easier to correct the settings of an active filter, higher numerical reason that components a passive filter). But above all, the powers involved are the cost, weight and size of components of passive filter capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of watts would cause problems.

The first steps during hardware installation, are to choose the power and position of return distribution systems - those for musicians - and front - to public. If, in small configurations, the engineer may also hold the post of soundengineer and thus manage the mix, it is common in larger events, there is one or more engineers / soundengineers facade and one or more engineers / soundengineers in return for a faster response and better adapted to potential problems mentioned above.

The soundengineer is increasingly called upon to assume the sounds plays, various live shows. His job will also allow it to ensure the preparation of these shows: registration; Formatting accompanying soundstracks etc. It also will require soundengineers for conferences, managing simultaneous translations etc.

Before sounds recording session, its preparation are done under the engineer's instructions: arrangement of orchestra, choice of microphones, headphones network installation for musicians. At sounds recording, the soundengineer checks that sounds recordings do not saturate by adjusting the setting best mic preamps and assumes good musical scale. A sounds recording may be said live when all the musicians recorded simultaneously or in successive layers (overdub (first rhythm tracks recorded with a (reference click the Tempo) and other sections: strings, brass, choirs, and solo instruments (in) dubbing instruments and finally solo singer. These records can done bit by bit ((en) punching-in and punch-out)




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