Sound Advice

Total Drum Cage
By EXW Staff - Sound Advice - Sep 22, 2020
   
It's rare that our team at EXW gets really excited about a product for worship. There are a ton of products out with several different companies manufacturing them. Some are better than others. Rarely do you see a com...
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The Fourth Element Part Three
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - Aug 17, 2020
   
This is an area that plagues most churches because little attention is given to it while the building is being built. Not all, but many of the architects that I have worked with over the years do not really understand a...
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The Fourth Element Part Two
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - July 20, 2020
   
This is the most sensitive and important part of the sound system. People are the deciding factor in the sound equation. Most people that volunteer for the sound ministry at church have a great heart of service. They are...
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Working In Your Strengths
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - July 06, 2020
   
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about working in my strengths. Like many of you, I have many strengths that pertain to the tech world. For me, the two at the top are 1) being a good troubleshooter, and 2) being ...
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They Say It's the Same
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - June 15, 2020
   
Have you ever been sitting in a service in which you are not serving and wondered, “Wow, this sounds much different than last Sunday”? Maybe you have noticed that some weeks the complaints about the sound are “It’s too l...
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Vocal Mixing For Live Events
By EXW Staff - Sound Advice - June 02, 2020
   
In general, bass and drums are the cornerstone of a musical theme in a band. Then guitars, keyboards and other instruments complement the harmonic setting of the musical arrangement. Finally, on top of all this, vocals a...
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Why and What
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - June 01, 2020
   
I talk to a lot of church techs who don’t really understand what the condition of our heart ‘should be’ about why tech is needed in church. In the world we live in, the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat environme...
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Pressure Moments vs. The Big Picture
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - May 14, 2020
   
If you’ve been in tech for any amount of time, you know that when it’s “show-time” things get serious. We make the service or event happen and that means that we need to stay on task and focused. At my previous church...
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Building Leaders
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - May 11, 2020
   
One of my passions is raising up young leaders, helping them to find not only their vocational gifts but also their God-given ministry gifts. I have had the honor to help raise up many young leaders in and out of the tec...
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How Loud is your Church?
By Leon Sievers - Sound Advice - April 28, 2020
   
For more than 15 years I have made a living from my ears. As a studio and live sound engineer I have been exposed to damaging sound pressure levels. This is to be expected in the music world, but many churches operate...
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