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Saxguitar · April 4th, 2009, 03:09 PM

The instrumentation in my praise band changes from week to week, there are four instrumentalist that are there every week: The praise team leader on Electric Piano, her son on the drum set(non electric), a bass player, and then me on sax and guitar. Each week though we put the youth on the praise team some play trumpet, clarinet, flute, acoustic guitars, alto sax, and our interum pastor sits in on some weeks and plays the trombone. It is a great setting and the praise team leader God bless her heart writes out individual parts for the instrumentalists. The only monitors we have are one really old main speaker which cuts in and out and two floor monitors where the singers are supposed to hear what the band is playing but most of the time the band is turned down way to low. I think our sound techs main problem is that they never really got trained right, when we have a problem with the levels in the service they call someone to come adjust them and it sonds good for about a month then it seems to drift back in to the old mix. We alternate sound personel everyweek and sometimes when the PT leaders husband is up there everything runs smooth everyone can hear and we have a great week but the rest of the month we have a prblem with one guy who can't hear high frequencies so when the system begins to scream someone has to run upstairs and let him know, another one of our sound guys who used to get a really nice balance but it would be to quiet even for the congregation to hear just quit because his family is moving to Wisconsin, then we have a problem with one sound guy who has a wife who sings on the praise team and turns his wife up about the PT leader and the lead singers. I know it is not the sound guys fault and they do it without pay so I thank them for their time but man it is just hard to sound good. I blame it more on the old system than the people working it, when they replaced some older parts the music director/organist at my church said that they didn't do it right and the company that installed it refuses to come back to finally make it right unless we pay again. This is frustrating.

April 4th, 2009, 03:09 PM	#6 (permalink)
Saxguitar Tele-Meister Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Battle Creek, MI Posts: 219	The instrumentation in my praise band changes from week to week, there are four instrumentalist that are there every week: The praise team leader on Electric Piano, her son on the drum set(non electric), a bass player, and then me on sax and guitar. Each week though we put the youth on the praise team some play trumpet, clarinet, flute, acoustic guitars, alto sax, and our interum pastor sits in on some weeks and plays the trombone. It is a great setting and the praise team leader God bless her heart writes out individual parts for the instrumentalists. The only monitors we have are one really old main speaker which cuts in and out and two floor monitors where the singers are supposed to hear what the band is playing but most of the time the band is turned down way to low. I think our sound techs main problem is that they never really got trained right, when we have a problem with the levels in the service they call someone to come adjust them and it sonds good for about a month then it seems to drift back in to the old mix. We alternate sound personel everyweek and sometimes when the PT leaders husband is up there everything runs smooth everyone can hear and we have a great week but the rest of the month we have a prblem with one guy who can't hear high frequencies so when the system begins to scream someone has to run upstairs and let him know, another one of our sound guys who used to get a really nice balance but it would be to quiet even for the congregation to hear just quit because his family is moving to Wisconsin, then we have a problem with one sound guy who has a wife who sings on the praise team and turns his wife up about the PT leader and the lead singers. I know it is not the sound guys fault and they do it without pay so I thank them for their time but man it is just hard to sound good. I blame it more on the old system than the people working it, when they replaced some older parts the music director/organist at my church said that they didn't do it right and the company that installed it refuses to come back to finally make it right unless we pay again. This is frustrating.