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| Written by Russ Speiser | |||||
| Monday, 07 April 2008 01:00 | |||||
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We conduct an audio training seminar to help raise up a team of workers.  One of the things we always have problems with is finding qualified people for the different projects we feel God is calling us to do. One approach is to try and bring in people, which we have definitely done, but another more long term approach is to find interested people and train them for the job.We've already conducted several video production training workshops . Several of the people who took these training seminars are now working in full time video production which is great. There were also some who discovered that video production really wasn't there thing, which is also good; no sense wasting time with things you don't want to be doing. One of the things we've noticed however, is that there is a lack of qualified sound engineers, so this time around, instead of video, we offered an audio production workshop. Initially I had big plans for a week long training session that would cover not only the theory of sound and audio production, but also the techniques and art involved in music production. However, several of the people who wanted to come were working at jobs that didn't offer them any time off during the day, so in the end, we cancelled that plan, and went for a three day weekend seminar that covered the basics and some of the techniques but didn't go any farther. We had six people participate in the end, although one of them only made it for part of the last day. The other five were divided in their interest and ability; two were really more interested in video production, and were only there because they wanted to be able to learn some of the theory and techniques of audio as it applied to video. Two of them were interested in being able to run sound for their churches and wanted to know how to turn all the knobs and push the right buttons so that people would stop complaining about the sound in their church. And two of them were musicians who composed their own music and were serious about recording and producing music for themselves and for others. So it was a mixed group. Pun intended. We had a good time together, although the first day was tough for them as I slogged through a bunch of theory  concerning the physics of sound and how the human ear responds to it. Their eyes were starting to glaze over, but luckily by the afternoon we got to more interesting stuff where they got to actually twist the knobs, push the buttons and make all those lights blink in really fun ways.By the last day, I was giving them sample multi-track mixes and having them come up with something. One group did everything "in the box", that is, only using a computer and software with no external hardware mixer, and the other used our large (and sometimes intimidating) audio mixer as well as the software. The first group had an unfair advantage because one of the team members had quite a bit of experience in mixing using only software and came up with a not bad mix. The second group forgot how to route signals through the mixer, and had problems in proceeding in a systematic way which lead to them having something that didn't really sound very good. But they all learned something, which was the important part. We are hoping that at least three of the people that participating will be able to help with production projects in the future, and I've already approached one of them suggesting we work together on producing some worship music in North African dialect languages that we can use for production projects with CNA. Thanks for your participation in building up a team that will be able to share the good news of the gospel in some really creative ways.... sometime in the future. Russ
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