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Audio Gear Thieves are Out There. Keep Them Guessing

Audio pros have expensive toys, and a sad fact of life is that there are unsavory characters who covet those toys. Sometimes shady people steal or try to steal gear in hopes that they can sell it for quick cash. These are the tools we use to earn our living, so it makes sense to thwart these efforts before they happen, and to be prepared in the unfortunate event that they do. There are a number of ways to protect your investment. The first: Don’t advertise the presence of your gear with words like “sound and lighting” on the side of your unattended vehicles. And if you don’t know who’s listening, don’t broadcast the parking or storage locations of your gear.

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Speeding into 2024

It’s hard to believe that another year is disappearing into our collective rear-view mirror and, in three months’ time, we will be marking the fourth anniversary of the Covid shutdown. The shock of March 15, 2020 seems like it was just here, but that year also fell behind us as we drove headlong into a bleak 2021 only to speed through to 2022 and zip into 2023. We are not traveling a straight and narrow path, and the route we have taken has been filled with many obstacles, twists and turns, but we are keeping steady on as we accelerate into 2024.

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Giving Traditional Church Services a Boost? First, Do No Harm

When it comes to traditional church services, notes FRONT of HOUSE’s “Sound Sanctuary” columnist John McJunkin, rule number 1 is to “do no harm.” It’s likely that the worship space has reasonably good acoustics that require just a bit of a P.A. assist. If that’s the scenario, he notes, a portable line array system with subs and delay towers might be overkill. Small speakers on sticks can be brought out when necessary, and put away when they’re not.

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HOW Gig Appearance

If I have one of my boys mixing a Sunday service, they have to know what they are doing and dress for the occasion.

Let me give you my dress code for church gigs (indoors or out).

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