Small Church Sound

Ha, you probably thought this was going to be some gear talk about a piece of gear with a weird set of ads in a magazine or something. Well, it’s not. Actually, I just wanted to write an explanation of the the ads on the left sidebar of the webpage here because I have had some questions about them.

The top left button is a link to musiciansfriend.com. It’s generally a good place to buy gear at the lowest price, particularly if you know what you want. I recommend it for churches who need to put their own system together in order to save on the cost of hiring someone to install it for them. I am an online affiliate so every time you click my link to their website and buy something I receive a small commission. If I have been helpful and you want to give back just buy yourself something by clicking through any of my links to their site.

The bottom right button is to an online store called partsexpress.com. This is a very consumer friendly electronics store that has parts for gear repair and speaker building if you are interested in do it yourself stuff. I am also an affiliate of partsexpress and clicking my links to them will also give me a small commission. More on them to come later.

The top right button is to dreamhost.com. This the company that I am hosting my website through. If you are interested in hosting a website for yourself by clicking on my button you can receive a discount of $87 off your first year. Yeah, I get a small commission there too. Just trying to be honest.

Finally, the bottom left button is a link to the current findingBethel CD. This is the band that I play bass for. If you want to have us to your church just go to findingBethel.com for booking information.

So, that’s the scoop, don’t forget to drop me an email at darin@smallchurchsound.com if you have a question.

Hi,

My name is Darin. I won’t bore you with the details of my life yet, for now you can just checkout the “about” page. For several years now I have helped sound engineers in small churches improve their sound systems and their craft of running sound. I thought it would be great to have a place where I could share the practical information that I have aquired, as well as learn a few things from everyone else. Also, to have a place where sound engineers could link up with each other to solve each others problems and give ideas.

Often times in small churches there is a big desire to have great sound systems for contemporary praise and worship, but a small budget to accomplish this goal. If you are like me you have a full time job and are a weekend warrior sound engineer. There’s not a lot of time to learn the technical jargon, you just need to know how to practically make it work. I believe there is a place to have a little bit of both. I am in no way a trained professional, but I have some ideas I can pass on that may help. As you see new posts pop up feel free to join the conversation.