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[Nathan Riddle]

Just a little pre-christmas humor

The regularity of the conversations and how ironic this is might be missed by some of y'all; but it's good in general for even our conversations except applied to: "i bought brand x and y and z, can i haz halps to make it work?"

[TJ (Tom) Cornish]

Just a little pre-christmas humor

The regularity of the conversations and how ironic this is might be missed by some of y'all; but it's good in general for even our conversations except applied to: "i bought brand x and y and z, can i haz halps to make it work?"

#17 All Allen & Heath consoles are always broken.  Also they suck.  Maybe lame amateurs can use them, but that's it.

What's the difference between an opinion and fake news?

[Keith Broughton]

#18
I thought you could fix the room echo and reverb with some electronic gizmo.

[Riley Casey]

Can’t they just pray for it to sound better?

[Tim McCulloch]

Can’t they just pray for it to sound better?

I heard a worship person ask for divine intervention when the mixerperson seemed to find the feedback knob on every input...  I was expecting a lightning bolt or earthquake or plague of locusts to dispatch the mixerperson but nothing that dramatic happened.

[Jonathan Johnson]

#19) We need to upgrade our sound system. We have the stage on the long wall. The ceiling is 9' high and the room is 40' deep and 60' wide with concrete floors. We want to mount the speakers on the wall behind the stage with double-sticky tape. Can we get 105dB? Our budget is $5.

[David Pedd]

#19) We need to upgrade our sound system. We have the stage on the long wall. The ceiling is 9' high and the room is 40' deep and 60' wide with concrete floors. We want to mount the speakers on the wall behind the stage with double-sticky tape. Can we get 105dB? Our budget is $5.

Are you making fun of my church?   

[Ivan Beaver]

#19) We need to upgrade our sound system. We have the stage on the long wall. The ceiling is 9' high and the room is 40' deep and 60' wide with concrete floors. We want to mount the speakers on the wall behind the stage with double-sticky tape. Can we get 105dB? Our budget is $5.

Back when I was doing installs, I actually had a Church committee come to talk about upgrading their sound system.

They had a meeting the night before and voted and decided on a budget.

I talked to them a little bit about what they currently had-which was literally nothing.

I asked what their budget was, just to have a basic idea of what I could do for them.

They said it was $100.  Yes One Hundred dollars :0  They figured that was a lot of money to spend on just some speakers and amplifiers.

I tried not to be rude, but told them that they had already spent $100 of my time just talking to them.

Some people just have unrealistic expectations.

[Tim McCulloch]

Are you making fun of my church?   

Not until the double-stick tape gives way...

[Jonathan Johnson]

I asked what their budget was, just to have a basic idea of what I could do for them.

They said it was $100.  Yes One Hundred dollars :0  They figured that was a lot of money to spend on just some speakers and amplifiers.

...

Some people just have unrealistic expectations.

I think those unrealistic expectations are based on unequal experiences.

They think because a $30 boombox plays a tape (yes, I said tape, does that make me old?) loud in their living room, that spending three times as much should buy a system that makes their pastor's voice and praise team's guitar loud in a church sanctuary that's three times as large as their living room.

I've seen people think they are going to use a Bose Wave Radio as reinforcement for an audience of hundreds... outdoors.

You just can't take something designed for one purpose in one environment and expect it to perform well for a purpose and in an environment it was never intended to fulfill. I don't know how you'd get some people to understand that.

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