A few years ago we went through an awful experience where 7 of our mics were stolen from our Main Auditorium. Thankfully, the individual was caught and the mics were returned. Out of that painful experience, we set about figuring out how to track our mics just like we do any other piece of gear. […]
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FAQ: What is Willow Creek’s Audio Volume Policy?
We are often asked what our volume policy for SPL levels during a worship service is at Willow Creek. Our official policy can be found here.
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FAQ: Production Headsets
We often get asked what comm headsets our production team uses for our events and services. Ask no more! Sensaphonics makes an earpiece called the TC1000. It runs about $600 (not including cost for in-ear molds and visit to an audiologist) and is an ear saver. Why do we use this? Great question! When over the […]
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Campus Care Audio Racks
We have have a unique setup at Willow where we have a team called Campus Care and they do more than just clean the facility and take out the trash. One of their major roles is to provide AV support for venues in our building that don’t have permanent audio and video systems. For about […]
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what is the perfect volume? part 2
In part one of this post, I talked about making sure you know what you are trying to do in your services and how volume fits into that. This is a leadership question, more than a dB question. As a church, what is your goal for the service? How loud it gets will be a […]
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what is the perfect volume? part 1
I get a lot of questions about how loud we run our services at Willow Creek. I always find it difficult to give a standard answer. Much of that comes from the fact that I think in terms of grey, as opposed to black and white. Each situation is different, so I tend to give […]
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Classroom Recorders
In the past all audio recordings for classrooms and events outside of the Main Auditorium and Lakeside were recorded into ProTools, with a staff member setting up the ProTools sessions and manually patching the different rooms into ProTools. At the end of March of 2012, that staff member retired and so the challenge was, “can […]
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