Sound Advice

Riding the Lightning
By Brent Handy - Sound Advice - March 24, 2025
   
We have entered the "storm season" here in the bible-belt. With storms come the most unpredictable, and second most deadly force, lightning. Lightning is not the only concern. Equipment in your facility can malfunction...
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Changing to Win
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - March 03, 2025
   
As my church heads into a season of change (an auditorium remodel, a name change, and a new website) I am brought back to the Bible’s views on changing the method but not the message. Change can be hard, but the rewards ...
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A “Deep and Wide” Tech Ministry
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - Feb 26, 2025
   
I came across a blog post recently by Charles Stone in which he summed up five questions that should be asked a your next staff meeting based on Andy Stanley’s book “Deep and Wide” . This prompted me to think about wh...
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Life Together
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - Feb 17, 2025
   
We’ve all heard “Doing Life Together” or “We are better together” which are really just different ways of saying “Not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all t...
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Total Drum Cage
By EXW Staff - Sound Advice - Jan 27, 2025
   
It's rare that our team at EXW gets really excited about a product for worship. There are a ton of products out with several different companies manufacturing them. Some are better than others. Rarely do you see a com...
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Sennheiser Mic Review
By Brent Handy - Sound Advice - Jan 13, 2025
   
Mics Reviewed: Sennheiser e 903 dynamic handheld vocal/instrument microphone Sennheiser e 604 dynamic drum/percussion microphones with Easy Clamps Sennheiser e 602 dynamic kick drum/bass microphone Sen...
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The Fourth Element Part Three
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - Dec 19, 2024
   
This is an area that plagues most churches because little attention is given to it while the building is being built. Not all, but many of the architects that I have worked with over the years do not really understand a...
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Microphones In Worship - Part 1
By Leon Sievers - Sound Advice - Dec 09, 2024
   
Nothing can disrupt a worship service like the annoying squeal of feedback from the sound system. Feedback is a ringing sound or squeal which occurs when the signal generated by the microphone is reproduced by a nearby l...
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The Fourth Element Part Two
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - Nov 21, 2024
   
This is the most sensitive and important part of the sound system. People are the deciding factor in the sound equation. Most people that volunteer for the sound ministry at church have a great heart of service. They are...
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Working In Your Strengths
By Van Metschke - Sound Advice - Nov 07, 2024
   
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about working in my strengths. Like many of you, I have many strengths that pertain to the tech world. For me, the two at the top are 1) being a good troubleshooter, and 2) being ...
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