Well 2010 has come and 2009 has seem to have flown by! I've had the iLive board now for over a month and it's been a fun ride with this board. Still much to learn! One thing I've been really working at is learning Scenes. I can be as simple as saving this "song" and then that "song". Or you can take it to the next level and actually customize what the scene saves. So if you want to have a master eq for ALL channels saved, in case you are making channel eq changes and forget what you had before you can just recall that scene.
The other thing that has been a challenge is I've been reading up on automated lighting and I feel as though we are doing everything incorrectly. I get very easily confused on how "professionals" run automated lights. The idea of having presets for every single change is kind of odd, when you can just add it into a timed deal. I don't know maybe I'm just wierd.
The other addition we've recently done is added a stage screen. Now we used to have one in the poast but because one of our side projectors went down we had to move it around. Now we have a new projector for the stage only, and it's really nice! Almost twice the brightness of the previous projector.
The next two months will be another adventure, as we finish the new building we are looking at a couple tech upgrades! Pray for this and I hope the Lord will direct us in what we should do!
----- -------- TITLE: First Run with iLive AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 12/08/2009 07:57:09 AM CATEGORY: Sound ----- BODY:Well we had our first run with the iLive console this past weekend. It went ok for being a brand new board. I forgot one important aspect of the board that I should have spent time working on, but with how that week was setup it didn't really allow for time one on one with the instruments. That aspect – EQ.
This weekend was the first weekend I realized how the EQ can make such a huge mess of things if not done properly and subtly.
This week I plan on carefully checking all instruments EQ and making sure that there isn't a huge overlap. The biggest problem I had was some things were EQ'd at the same range and therefore you couldn't distinguish between them!
It was a learning experience but one well learned. I still very excited about the board, in fact the response it has to EQ was also uplifting because it's a lot more accurate than the ML4000.
This week shall be another fun time!
----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Yeap Ewe Jin URL: EMAIL: ionstorm@gmail.com IP: 60.50.74.141 DATE: 12/10/2009 09:04:37 AMHi! I'd like to know if you run into any major issues with the iLive. I'm from Malaysia, and A&H support isn't very good here. My church is looking for a new board and I love the iLive, so I need to know if it's going to run flawlessly from Day 1!
----- -------- TITLE: Allen and Heath iLive T112 part2 AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 11/19/2009 09:18:35 AM CATEGORY: Sound ----- BODY:After much research and working out the details. We are purchasing a digital sound board at the end of this month! We've decided that the iLive T was the best fit for us and also has an amazing price tag!
Here is a small list of that we are looking forward to do…
We are really excited about this project. Currently I'm working on doing a lot of pre-setup so that when we get the console we can basically plug it in and go! We are capable of doing this because you can download software off of the website to control the console through a PC or have a separate mix going on. So I installed that software on my laptop and told it that the console was "Offline" and then I've been setting up everything we have, including gains, EQs, patching, integration with DSPs, and Aviom setup.
Save that setup on a thumb drive and then boot up, load thumb drive and you're done!
----- -------- TITLE: Overhauling LightJockey! AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 11/13/2009 12:14:29 PM CATEGORY: Uncategorized ----- BODY:Spending some time today reading up on techniques for programming automated lighting. About to demolish our current setup to hopefully make things easier to understand.
----- -------- TITLE: iLive T112 Sound Board AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 11/13/2009 07:27:09 AM CATEGORY: Sound ----- BODY:Wednesday I got an opportunity to demo the new Allen and Heath iLive T112 board.
Pretty nice board, I'm surprised about the capabilities that it can handle and quite seamlessly too! I only got to play with it by hooking up an iPod and messing around with patching, naming, color coding, efx, aux sends, and so on…
The ability to run Aux sends like faders will be real nice, I've always wanted to run Aux's as faders instead of nobs.
I'm right now messing with the iLive Editor, you can control the board through network connection with software. So I downloaded the software and I can actually set up the board without it being here it's pretty nice.
It's definitely the board we will get when we make the move to digital! You can't beat the price and capabilities.
----- -------- TITLE: Audio section! AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 11/03/2009 03:19:00 PM CATEGORY: Home ----- BODY:The Audio section is now done. You can see a small list of our equipment. I didn't go into the details of our compressors or FX boxes yet. Especially since that will be changing soon!
The signal path is the interesting part to me. Just seeing where everything goes from stage to speaker. If you get confused with our speaker arrangement…well…just know that it sounds good =)
----- -------- TITLE: Planning Center AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 11/03/2009 01:01:14 PM CATEGORY: Home ----- BODY:A brief explanation of how planning center works on the volunteer side is up! I'll have more soon especially on the "My Account" side of things where you can change your profile info.
Enjoy!
----- -------- TITLE: Still adding stuff! AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 10/30/2009 12:51:38 PM CATEGORY: Home ----- BODY:Still slowly developing the site and adding content information.
The next section I'm currently working is actually Planning Center Online. Planning on getting some screenshots on how to do a few things and how to work your way around it!
----- -------- TITLE: Flood o' Volunteers AUTHOR: Wheezy DATE: 10/27/2009 12:41:20 PM CATEGORY: Home ----- BODY:We have been blessed with an awesome tech team! Well it's about to get real interesting. Two weeks ago Pastor said that we need more volunteers in all areas of the church. Well the response has come in and it's quite overwhelming!
I'm really excited about the possibilities this will open and potentially some new positions also opening up in NewSpring Studios!
----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Bruce URL: EMAIL: bross15@cox.net IP: 72.209.147.171 DATE: 10/27/2009 12:54:33 PMNice! Kinda empty right now but it's a good place to start.
Suggestion: maybe add a forum where we can have conversations, uploads, videos, etc.??
Welcome Tech Team from NewSpring Church, here is a site where you can learn more of our team and get information about the happenings on the tech side of our church!
----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jason Jacobs URL: EMAIL: jason.jacobs@newspring.org IP: 68.102.60.202 DATE: 11/03/2009 01:39:11 AMLooking good!
----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Kevin URL: EMAIL: jeepster25@gmail.com IP: 63.245.178.56 DATE: 11/05/2009 06:04:36 PMSweet I am glad God allowed it to get going.
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