Final Christmas Eve Stage Plot

Well this updated stage plot for Christmas Eve. I split the kids choir into two sections to help parents see there kids just a little better.

Sydney's Song

 Here is a song that friend of mine wrote after they lost their daughter four years ago. We recorded it here at DSC. Buy it here. Proceeds are going to the adoption fund at Desert Springs Church. Learn more about the journey of Byrd Family here.

Christmas, Christmas Time is Here!

Well it is Christmas time again and it is one of the most challenging ones I have had in my 16 years at DSC. Christmas is on a Sunday! This means we are doing our two Christmas Eve services on Saturday night and then turning around and doing two completely different services Sunday Morning. We see it as a great time to celebrate the birth of our savior and his resurrection from the dead in one weekend. Needless to say that means one mighty big weekend of music. Christmas Eve will be our regular band consisting of bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, percussion and 7 vocals rotating through, plus a string quartet, extra electric guitar, children's choir, twelve person ensemble.  Sunday Christmas Day we will be pairing back to our regular five piece band. Should be great fun and a lot of work. This a rough stage plot for Christmas Eve.

The Christmas Store

Here is our video for our annual Christmas Store project. It is video produce by our video team. You can see DSC videos on our You Tube Channel.

Cause for Praise Recap

Well it is over. Cause for Praise is finished and we are back to "normal" around here at DSC. The tech team had a great and busy couple of weeks. Here is a look back with some interesting stats:

Sunday was baptism Sunday so we had to shoot and edit seven testimony videos, get the baptistry ready, and of course have services. After we drained the baptistry, cleared the stage, moved the chairs on the floor (Cause for Praise was in the round on the floor of the worship Center), move the piano off the stage and set up the drums. 

Monday-Friday we set up the chairs in the round, set hung lights, decorated, picked up speakers, set up the band.

Here is a summary of what we set up:

26 inputs from the band

31 channels to the multitrack recorder (5 crowd mics on top of the band channels)

14 QSC K12's placed around the worship center.

4 subs (QSC 18's and EAW SB1000's)

Yamaha M7-48 running two Dante cards for recording and one Aviom.

12 Aviom units

15 sets of in ear monitors

6 Di's (Taylor K4, 2 Radial Pro Di, Aguilar Tube bass DI, Radial J48, CountrymanType 85)

25 Microphones SM57, 2 KSM9, 2 pro 35, 2 Micro D, 2 KSM 109, 2 KSM 32, 2 KSM 27, KSM 44, AKG414, AT350, Beta 52, D6, 2 E935, 2 E609, ATM 25, DPA 4061, 2 ATM 450

Friday night we took it all down. 

Saturday we reset the chairs and set up band for Sunday.

Sunday had our normal services. 

Wednesday we had a Elder Q and A, which was another challenge. Seven open over ear microphones at the same time. Great fun.

Thanks for all the volunteers who helped I could not have pulled it off without you.

Another look at the stage for Cause for Praise. We are getting close.

Psalterium and Cause for Praise

Well as I continue my posts on Cause for Praise I need to mention the CD we are releasing.  The CD is called Psalterium Vol. 1 and is a 5 song EP written from the Psalms. It will be available on Friday. You can preview it here.