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opinion worship audio by Dan Wothke be accomplished with a good DI or an L/R crank it up as much as they wanted. We set up Baggs or Fishman-type of preamp. The real his guitarist with our Randall iso box located benefits from amplifier adjustment reside backstage, being fed from his Naylor Super with electric guitars. Drive 60 onstage; by the time Sunday night Taking away an electric guitarist’s speaker came around, he commented that he had no cabinet is not going to make you the most pop- need to bring in his speaker cabinet. He would ular FOH engineer on the block, but this can be never be able to push the level as much as he a win-win for all could the iso cab and involved. We have a really loved what that Line 6 POD on hand did for his sound. for all guitarists and Having a speaker cabimost of them use it net on stage can limit or their own model. the true tone of the This is a serviceable amplifier head due to replacement for an level restrictions. By amp, especially if the putting this in an isoguitarist really takes lation cabinet backthe time to work with stage, the amp could such an amp simulabe turned up therefore tor to find a set of pushing the speaker tones that suits more and ultimately them and matches achieving the desired output levels. tone. He even comThe other item mented about picking we have on hand is one up to become a a Peavey Classic 30 mainstay in his rig. The Randall ISO guitar speaker enclosure with its front removed. with the internal Customization is easy, speaker unplugged. If the guitarist does not as the internal speaker is replaceable with any have an amp head, they can use the Peavey 12-inch model. plugged into our Randall ISO box. There is no Granted, if your backstage area is isolated true replacement for a good, beefy electric well enough, it may be an option to just move guitar sound via a Shure SM57 pointing right the guitarist’s speaker cab backstage. at the cone of a 12-inch Celestion speaker being cranked. Yet the ISO box serves as a It Comes Back To Monitoring great compromise because guitarists One element that FOH engineers need to achieve their ideal tone without overtaking address as the amplifiers are virtually elimithe mix and ultimately becoming a distrac- nated in HOWs is the quality of monitoring for the musicians; this not only serves as a musition during worship. Case in point: We recently hosted CCM cal reference for the band, but also now artist, Jeff Deyo, for a weekend. He led the con- becomes their primary avenue to hear their gregation during our three church services individual tones. This can take some adjustand then was leading for a citywide worship ment on both ends, but if the end result is a event at our church on Sunday night. We have better worship experience, then any growing fairly strict guidelines in regards to weekend pains are quickly justified. Next time, I’ll address the improvements in SPLs and shared them with his road manager. The one issue that usually comes up is our “no HOW monitoring and how it affects overall SPL. amp on stage” policy, but Jeff and his team The ultimate goal is a good, manageable sound were absolute pros and said no problem but for all styles of worship and no amplified or they understood on Sunday night there were acoustic instrument interfere or become a disno restrictions and they use their amps and traction to that goal. 54 ProAudioReview | November 2008 www.proaudioreview.com http://www.strobosoft.com http://www.strobosoft.com http://www.proaudioreview.com

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ProAudio Review - November 2008 Contents Technically Speaking First Look 2008 PAR Excellence Awards New Studio Products Studio Sense Review: Solid State Logic Matrix Review: Arsenal Audio by API R24, V14, and R20 Mini-Review Review, Second Opinion, and Benchtest Review: A-Designs HM2EQ HAMMER Review: Sontronics Sigma Phantom Powered Ribbon Microphone Analog In The Studio: Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be New Live Products Worship Audio Review: Community VERIS Series Loudspeakers Installation Profile Single Slice

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