cms summer conference

Just recently back from operating audio for the Church Missionary Society's 2005 summer conference. All the audio production went pretty much to plan. I had to put up with a grumbling Soundcraft audio console that seemed to have noise that came from the power supply. Irritating! The dbx DDP processor seemed to do a good job and I had it on compression and de-essing duties for the duration of the six-day event. The Driverack 260 was trusty as ever. Love the Driveware thing too! My Powerbook recorded all the sessions in Toast's Spin Doctor application, although it did seem to freeze when the recordings went much over an hour. The information wasn't lost, but it required waiting several hours for the computer to stabilise. Curious.
On the final evening we had a gig from Melbourne group Dry White Toast, which seemed to do down a treat. I felt I was able to pull an ok sound from the faithful ART300As, JBL powered subs and a room like a big tin shed. I'm just listening to the recording now and I reckon I could have been a bit more generous with the digital reverb.

Jonathan and Bob on video had some grief with a Panasonic vision mixer that seemed to drop out on the audio inputs for no apparent reason.The video side of things was all very impressive though.

On the spiritual side of things - the `evangelical brand' is not one I feel overly comfortable in, but I got to have some good conversations with people, including Andrew Newmarch from World Vision and Peter Angelovski from the Ridley College bookshop. I bought a copy of Brian McLaren's A Generous Orthodoxy.