Wedding Service Handling Audio & Visual

Time flies and it now near to Chinese New Year, year of Monkey, 2016. Well during this time, many are preparing to celebrate CNY.

On the 30th January 2016, I was invited to be in charge of PA/ mixer for a event of wedding. It was held at First Baptist Church, Sg. Tapang at 10:00PM. Before the actual day, a simple rehearsal was conducted.

Basically, the event start with guess entering, followed by bride enter the hall, and followed by worship, ceremony.

The part that required a lot of mixing is during the worship session. There is two group for worship: 1. Full band with electric guitar. 2. Sentimental group with piano.

1. Full band with electric guitar

Only one vocalist, however there are many instrument: keyboard, acoustic, drum and electric guitar. I emphasis on electric and acoustic guitar because it sounds better. Keyboard is playing background music which is only suitable during bridge and verse of the songs. For electric guitar, he is playing distortion at all time.

2. Sentimental group with piano

Only one vocalist, she has strong and sharp voice. She is accompanied by grand piano, bass guitar and drum. Overall comment for her is good, maybe because of her voice that is easy to be tuned.

The photos taken are as below. You are welcome to contact me if any of you are interested to hire me to mix during your wedding event.

Operating Procedure for handling Audio & Visual in a Room

It is always not easy to handle audio & visual in a room/ hall. Imagine as a sound man, you are alone in a room with lighting system, sound system, projection system, and recording. Yes, that's right. You will go crazy with all and will be super busy.

How to handle if you are facing this scenario?

Sometimes I also faced this problem. I suggest that:
1. Lighting system - keep only one simple scene without case
2. Sound system - keep the mic volume ON & playback volume ON
3. Projection system - the personnel will be handling the PC for projection of songs during the worship session

In the church, I have come out with a simple operation manual. Hopefully, it will be able to guide those not familiar with the audio & visual to operate it.

Kindly click on the link for the sample of operating manual for a room.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b05fbdd6qtmbpzh/Operation%20procedure%20in%20Main%20Hall.pdf?dl=0

The Marriage Course 2016 (Mandarin)

On the 3rd January, I was invited to be in-charge for audio and visual for one event.

This event is called The Marriage Course by Alpha. This course is conducted by running the DVD. The speaker of the DVD is Nicky and Sila from U.K.

Hence, in order to run this program. Items needed are as below:

1. Mixer/ PA system
2. 2 Units of DVD player OR Combination of 1 Unit DVD player and 1 Unit Laptop
3. 2 Units of pair of Red & White RCA cables OR 1 Unit of Red & White RCA cables & RCA to audio jack cable
4. Projector

The pictures are as followed:

 Figure 1 Mixer Used by FBC Chapel

 Figure 2 Laptop Used by FBC Chapel

Figure 3 Audience during the Event

This event will last for 6 weeks and the participation is very encouraging.

Experience in Audio and Visual

Welcome everyone to my blog Audio & Visual World!!

Blog Introduction:

I share my experience in lighting and PA system that I have used before. Furthermore, I will review on the advantages and disadvantages of it. Beside that, I will be sharing on the headphone, audio jack, and other necessary items related to audio and visual.

Stay tune for more information and more posts.

Author Introduction:

I have been handling audio and visual for more than 10 years, I started at the age of 16 years old.

It is not easy to start mixing on the mixer. To be a sound man, a person needs to be able to handle stress and alert whenever there is feedback (humming).

Sometimes a sound man needs to handle special request from the musicians and audience. For example, a musician tells me that she cannot hear herself from floor monitor which she is standing far away from floor monitor. In this situation, should I tuned louder for her or I just asked her to stand nearer to monitor. This is the example of dilemma situation, the solution is to ask her stand nearer to the monitor. If I tuned the volume loud enough that she can hear herself, it will cause humming and too loud to other musician and singers.

For your information, I started mixing in a church setting, First Baptist Church in Malaysia. This church has instrument from drum to guitar. However, the preferable for the church's setting is soft bass and clarity in volume. Figure below shows the sound system used during the old time before 2007.

 Figure 1 Compressor & EQ Behringer and EQ Ashly

Figure 2 Mixer Mackie

Stay tuned for more posts from this page.