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| Mixing for the Whole House |
| By Kent Margraves,
Sennheiser |
Ever had a comment from a worshipper, whether positive or negative, regarding the live sound experience – and
it differs totally from what you thought you just heard and mixed?
Large room acoustics (particularly room modes), loudspeaker selection / orientation / optimization, audience
size and participation, and several other factors all contribute to the fact that the live sound experience is
different in every seat in your worship space. If it is a great room with proper system design and installation,
those variations may be minor. In many instances, they are not minor. Either way, they do exist, and the FOH
mixer must realize that he or she is only listening to (and mixing to) one position's perspective when standing
behind the mixing console.
During worship, only one of all those factors is under his control – the mix. The best the mixer can do is
understand the other factors and learn to mix within that particular environment. There are some worship
facilities where consistency has been achieved across most of the audience area through excellent design and
integration...but for the vast majority of venues, it's one thing to create a brilliant mix for the mix position
and another thing to translate that across the whole house.
So it is critical to walk the audience area whenever possible to hear the perspectives of the audience areas
(especially if there is a trustworthy A2 to drive the console for a few minutes at a time). Tonality may be
noticeably different in some locations. For instance, it may be discovered that the majority of the house hears
a little more bass thump than the mix position does. The mixer that notices this can take it into account in
the mixing process. That would never be noticed, and compensated for, without walking away from the mix
position.
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