Church Sound: Methods For Doing System Line Checks
One of those things that most sound people know they should do...
By Mike Sessler • November 6, 2018The line check. It’s one of those things that most sound people know they should do, or at least would like to have time to do, but often fail to get around to actually doing.
Getting a line check done before the band arrives has saved me on several occasions.
Not getting it done has cost us time (and when I say us, I mean the tech team, the band, the producer and everyone else in the room).
So what is a line check? Just like it sounds, it’s a time to check each line from the stage to the soundboard (and back, if you have wired monitors).
There are many ways to do it, and I’ll outline a few here. What’s really important is that you check each line, from it’s beginning—be that a mic, a DI or instrument cable—to the end, the sound board...
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