25 May
Here’s an interesting read about frequency usage of wireless microphones. I might be a good idea to learn the law if your church uses a lot of wireless microphones so you keep your system up-to-date. Also, it’s a great idea so you don’t get slapped with a fine for interference with the new digital television frequency range.
20 Nov
If you record your services on CD chances are the audio is broken up into tracks. For those who don’t record digitally, this is a problem when trying to create a podcast. Now you can take all of those annoying little tracks and combine them into one with Merge MP3. Grab it here. (via Lifehacker)
4 Jul
Have you ever been to a service that wasn’t planned well. In fact, right before the service, the leaders are running around trying to find people to fill all the spots. The service is not organized from the beginning and ultimately the congregation becomes frustrated and even embarassed. Lack of planning for services tell visitors you don’t have your act together, and if you can’t take a few minutes during the week to care about the service, how are you going to take time to care for them? It’s a bad cycle. But, there’s good news…Planning Center.
This tool allows you to plan your services to the T. You add all of your ministry staff (musicians, audio/visual staff etc) then you create your service. You can define how many of each position you need and then select people from the list to fill those positions. Amazingly, you can email the schedule directly to them and assign a reminder that will tell them the day before that they are scheduled for that job. Music directors can schedule rehearsals and send it specifically to their group. The free account lets you create one ministry with ten people. I have one ministry called “Service Schedule” and then I add all my times for the week plan. It’s simply amazing and free. If you want to expand, you will have to pay a small montly fee.
8 Jun
Don’t spend hundreds of dollars on a fancy audio editing program to record your services. Audacity is a free software that allows you to record directly, edit with massive amounts of features, and even create tracks like expensive brand name software. You can use Audacity for video production, simple audio tasks, or even as a recording studio. This is a great software for radio stations on a budget. Audacity converts your files to mp3, wma, wav and virtually any other audio format available. There are plenty of tutorials for this software, it’s easy to use and it’s FREE!!
