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Our pastor has a “ready room” and it is aptly labeled. This is a place he can come and prep for the three services he does on Sundays. He has his own refrigerator, sink, bathroom, couch, closet, etc. There is also a TV sitting on a small stand where he can view the worship service so that he is not late to the stage if he chooses to hang behind during worship.
Today I had to trouble shoot that TV and the live feed. I checked all of the feed hardware to make sure nothing had come unplugged, next up was the TV. It was a Westinghouse LCD TV, my guess is a 32″. I turned it on and was met with a black screen and a squeal from the speakers. That isn’t right. I swapped inputs, squeal stayed, i turned down the volume, squeal didn’t change…yeah definitely not right. I turned the TV off…the squeal lowered but was still there. Uhhhhhhhh poltergeist? We had a storm come through last Friday so I’m assuming that we had a power surge and it took out the power supply on that TV. We had an almost identical one so I swapped it out, everything works dandy but now I’m thinking a surge protector might be a viable option on that sucker.
How do you make sure your pastor gets from point a to point b? does he know? do you have a stage manager? do you have a morning pre-production meeting? What about special speakers, how does that work? who briefs them? the production director? the worship director?
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twitter.com/audiojunky I work at #sugarcreek. Twitter aficionado and creative geek. I like all forms of creative expression, video, audio, graphic design, stage design. I hope to share a little bit of my journey in all of that with you.
