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Do you do AV at your church or other group events?

A few months ago joined the AV team at my church and have slowly become more comfortable with the equipment. We don't have anybody that really qualifies as a "pro" but some are certainly better at it than others. The majority of us are engineers that are not scared to push buttons, but it seems we all have a slightly different way to handle things. I have no previous experience with this type of equipment and am slowly figuring out better ways to set things up. Last weekend they guy running the board had a microphone so "hot" trying to pick up a flute and violin that were standing back from it that I could almost see the glo around it. I was just waiting for the horrible reverb screech to happen. I was on this week and was very careful to bring the house volume up a little more than normal in an effort to minimize the gain on the various microphones.

Does anyone have any general tips and/or recommendation on how to maximize the sound quality. The equipment is adequate, but I'd love to upgrade it a notch or two if the funds were available. I may have to donate some microphone cords just to have a matching set.

Considering the audio equipment that I own personally, I figured it would be horribly selfish for me to not join the AV team since they can always use another person in the rotation.
mceljo

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trelja
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I'd also like to express my appreciation for being involved - THANK YOU!

In keeping with everything else we do, our church has a more than modest A/V system, in both the church itself and the parish hall we meet in after Mass. While we don't have spectacular gear, it's more than adequate. At our annual meeting last week, we discovered that just as things have been over the past several years, our fiscal restraint kept us in the black for 2010, and we continue on in our journey, doing what we believe important.

My father is very involved in two other parishes, and has put together the whole system at one of them, and upgraded the other. I worked with him to source the components, and in purchasing used and judiciously, he's been complimented about the quality exceeding the expected.
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