B3 Organ with a Leslie

I thought this was a cool little article on how to mic up a Hammond B3 with a Leslie Speaker. I have had the opportunity to mic a B3 a few times, most notably The Coasters and B.B. King. I never got to be this thorough and can't wait to try these techniques out in the future. This post from ChurchnTech Arts gives a nice look at the B3.

Three Ways to Mic a B3 Organ — ChurchTechArts


 

The Hammond B3 is one of those iconic sounds of modern music. And by modern I mean since about the 1950’s or so. The Hammond B3 was the invention of Lawrence Hammond. A serial inventor, he figured out that the synchronous motor he used in the first electric clock could produce musical tones. In 1934, he unveiled the Hammond model A. They were originally sold to churches as a substitute for pipe organs.

Read the entire post here.


 

 

A Week of Variety

Well when you are a church sound guy that still does a little free lance work you get a wide variety of events that you get to participate in. This last week was one of those for me. The 1st photo was my Tuesday at a seminar with Robert Scovill, front of house for Tom Petty and on staff with Avid who makes the Venue consoles. Photo two is a pick from an all day rehearsal and performance of a home school talent show at the Springs. The final photo is of the boxing ring for a Univision Pay per view up at Santa Ana Star Casino where I handled the sound in the venue and split all the signals to the television truck for a live broadcast. Sunday of course was my most important gig mixing FOH at DSC for our Sunday services, no photo available. A very busy and fun week.

Videos on Microphone Polar Patterns

ProSound Web had an article that referenced these videos. They show how different polar patterns sound as you travel around a microphone. Fun demonstrations. Play the intro and buttons pop up to take you to the different videos.

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.

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.

Cause for Praise

Here is the first picture of the setup for Cause for Praise.

Cause for Praise '11

This will be the first post of I what hope are many on Cause for Praise '11. I thought a picture of the preliminary stage plot.