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.
Darin,
Great idea for a website! I was wondering if you could give some advice to small churches on when is the best time to go from a system with a couple of main speakers to a system with subwoofers etc. Is it mainly when a certain size of room and number of people is reached or is there a place for smaller churches to have this set up as well? I know it makes a big difference in the sound but thought you might have some general guidelines you could share.
This is a great question. I think a common misconception that happens is that subwoofers are for big rooms with lots of people. I think a main reason this happens is because people associate ‘bass’ with concerts and rock music. In reality I think you get a richer more complete sound when “subs” are in use, regardless of room size or number of people. I would recommend subs to any size church. I will try to put a blog up soon that is a little more comprehensive.
Thanks.
Haha… that, Darin, and the fact that we love bass, right? Dude, I’m loving the site. It’s such a great concept. Small churches really need some good sound. Let me know if I can help at all!
-Brother Low Note
EJ, It’s true the bass rocks. Keep checking out the site and let people know about it.
Darin, this is very good and I really appreciate your attitude and servant’s heart that is reflected in this site and through your life!
Darin…score one for the Kingdom! There
aren’t a lot of good resources in cyberspace for smaller churches in this area (sound systems). I pray your website will bless many! Hi Dan Dunn!! I couldn’t agree more
with Darin regarding sub’s. We have a very
small sanctuary at Crossroads…with two good
sized subs..we like them. God owns all frequency and crank-up the bass!
Brian Ubben
Hey guys,
Thanks for the words I hope this does help others. And my goal really is to get everyone to turn up the bass.