Cause for Praise '12 Concert

We will be holding our annual praise concert on October 19th. Check out desertspringschurch.bandcamp.com to hear some tunes from the last couple years.

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.

The Well

I just finished a rare night at the Well, our college ageish ministry at DSC. it was a great night of worship through music and the Word. I did a little tag team mixing with my longest suffering sound volunteer Trish. This came about because my volunteers had previous committments so they could not be at the Well. Trish works right up until service starts but still likes to come and get a litle worship on. I was restoring a time machine backup to one of our pastor's Mac's so I cut out during the teaching time, I have a video feed in my office so i can keep tabs on the sermon and get back in time for the final set of music. When heard Los starting to wind dowwn I headed back in, Trish was at the console ready to go, so I sat back and just enjoyed. I think she made sound better, just the right amount of effects on the mix, good vocal placement. The reason I mention this is, seeing as Trish filled in for me when i was called out of service a few weeks back and she covered me tonight, I appreciate all the time she puts in, and how ahe has grown as a mixer.

Humility and Church Singing

Vitamin Z posted this quote from Bob Kauflin:
“Years ago, I was in England at a large Christian conference. During one seminar, we were led in corporate worship by a guitarist whom I thought was average in every respect. As he finished what I would describe as a sorry time of worship in song, the elderly gentleman to my side turned my way. With a glowing smile, he asked, “That was simply lovely, wasn’t it?” I wanted to say no, but the Holy Spirit caught my tongue before the answer slipped out. What I realized was that only one of us had been worshipping God during that time. And it wasn’t me. I was busy worshipping myself, exulting in my knowledge of worship, my experiences, my training, my background. Needless to say, God wasn’t impressed. ‘But this is the one to whom I will look: he
who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word’ (Isa 66:2b ESV). May God grant us grace to truly seek His reputation above our own each time we meet to worship Him.

- Bob Kauflin, Worship Matters