Have you amazed as I am about how fast technology increases? Back in 2001, more information can be sent over a single cable in one second than in 1997, was sent over the Internet throughout the month. As well, 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware waste in the United States each year.
Do we want to be just or not, our churches are part of these statistics. In America, our churches are looking for a standard of technological excellence. There are many who have achieved this standard, but far more who are not. This article is not about whether it is right or wrong for the church to pursue the technology. It is about those churches that are looking for him, and not finding it.
I volunteer at my church, we were every Sunday to load all the audio equipment in a rented school gymnasium, I was set up and run the 16 channel mix (from the stage), singing, playing guitar and keyboards, and lead praise and worship team. Talk about a challenge. Right in the middle of the song, I leave my mic, stop singing and stop playing guitar, spinning motion with his hand in a circle motion for my bass player, vocalist and flautist of "keep going" until I turn around and adjust the treble mix, while the drummer did not get a hand signal and stops the game. This pretty much everything quenches what happens. This scenario is not the case for many churches that have their own worship facility and are not faced with the installation of each week.
Legend Theatre, Inc., Scotts Valley, California based lighting design, audio / video, staging, rental company spends much time with the churches, with an emphasis on integrated media systems. Dave Dunning, CEO of Legend Theatre, inc. says: "Many churches and schools that want to meet with a look at all the options available to them, the installation of new audio, video and lighting systems to upgrade their existing systems with newer technology. We look at the most cost effective way to introduce new technologies and improving existing conditions and / or assist them in renovating their outdated systems ."
technologies are changing rapidly. equipment goes into a church and today will be obsolete within two years. Many churches I've been in are sparking wires, flashing lights of the stage (not intentionally programmed), muddy unintelligible sound and lighting that drain money from the church electric bill
.Unfortunately, what I've seen happen is that many pastors are looking for their "Sound Booth" volunteer to go on-line at the website and try to find inexpensive equipment. Oh yeah, do not forget to make sure they have free delivery. The result is a bunch of cheap components, hooked up incorrectly, you will probably need to be replaced within a year or so, even if they use the equipment. In the best case, one or two "Sound Booth volunteers will not actually know what equipment works and how to use it. What's going to be a means to provide a community vision for the future and take steps towards the "Excellence" is misused and a "good manager" in need of help.
Another question that I have seen in many churches, as they grow, they are very eager to incorporate video into their services. They can offer the community and on-line community via streaming video and sub-casts. problem that has emerged is that many churches were spent very large amounts of money on a video camera, switch, monitor, screen and recording system, only to learn that their pastor is white or orange and distorted. In return, the pastor, who has just spent truck loads of money for new technology looks at video volunteer and says, "what happened, fix it"? He does not know the answer, because it is a question of lighting, which sells video has neglected to inform them about And that's where the money pit factor kicks in. The pastor wants it fixed, because he does not like the new color of blue that his skin had become. So, more money goes into determining what might have prevented at the beginning, if the church would have hired professional technical designers. Legend Theatre says, "we have to fix and undo" many permanent installations of audio / video and lighting systems that were supposedly "professionally" installed. result, the church was taken down, "Good Old-Boy-my friend knows how to do things" the road.
suggest and implement ways to help you save money on their electric utility bills is appealing to pastors and communities involved in the renovation or upgrading. By converting and / or amendments to many conventional lighting system with low power consumption, high-output LED lighting technology is the way many churches are getting.
I once helped the church that had a professional in front of the home network and bass cabinets installed. Their problem was sound quality. They had spent thousands of dollars on audio equipment, but the installation failed to set up a company to get the structure on the console, and can not tune a room acoustical measurements, resulting in a muddy tone and quality deficit empty processed sound. This facility is even a digital speaker system for the management of the site that included, but was never programmed. Unfortunately, the factory settings will not be reduced. Pastors should make sure that after installation, in-depth training follows all the volunteers showed that tech equipment.
I even heard a story recently audio contractor was invited to the church to see why their sound was so terrible. After the tour, looking at the sound console and equalizer, to his amazement, all the faders are arranged in a beautiful curving sine wave pattern are looking at both consoles and EQ. Asked whether they were current setting, the answer comes from the "Sound Booth" a volunteer is very funny. "This is what the picture on the box looked like, so we put'em in this way." That is why it is important to have a technology design team come together by you, in the beginning, which will also give your team training. What good is it to have their churches spend money on technology just to have it fall prey, "that's what the picture on the box looked like ."
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