The Church Sound Podcast with Prentiss L. Thompson

young master musician Glen Gibson joins the conversations as we walk through the life of a young music minister and how to move the gospel industry.
Glenn Gibson Jr was born and raised In Queens New York He started playing drums at the age of 1 then transferred to the keyboard and organ at the age of 8 9. Over the years he has shared the stage with many artists such as Leandria Johnson, Bebe Winans, Jonathan Nelson, Kierra Sheard, Karen Clark Sheard, Ricky Dillard, Vincent Bohanan, Pastor David Wright, Avant and many other artists. His influences are variety of artists and musicians such as Travis Sayles, Cory Henry, Darryl Woodson, Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Yellowjackets, Elton John, Phil Collins just to name a few. At this present time He is currently working on his music and trying to hit other genres of music. His passion for music will never die

Prentiss L. Thompson explains the importance of performing line check for every service in your church.
“line check” is the process of making sure that all of the microphones, cables, and direct boxes on stage are working before the show or soundcheck starts. You can do this by having an associate with a cable tester and pink noise generator go to the stage and tap on the mics, test the cables, and plug their noise generator into all the DI boxes while you listen to the channels on the board. If you find any faulty cables, mics, or DI boxes, this will allow you to swap them out before the band plugs into them and tracking down issues becomes more difficult. Doing a line check before every gig is definitely worth it.

The CSP Crew sits down with Darryl Brown is true coach. Business coach. Personal development coach. Finance coach. Youth coach. Sports coach. Through diverse experiences, Darryl has created the life of his dreams; helping people and businesses produce and perform at their highest level. Darryl is the founder and principal coach of Jump Start Coaching & Development Solutions. Jump Start is designed to provide individuals, business owners and business leaders expert direction and guidance with how to build and grow thriving personal lives, businesses and organizations.
Throughout his career, Darryl has gained vast experience and knowledge in corporate
education, business management, sales training, development and growth, goal setting. How does this apply to your ministry and how can you use life coaching for you own personal growth? Listen - Laugh and Learn.

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/JumpStartMyGoals

Prentiss L. Thompson breakdown the usages of utilizing a omnidirectional mic. The do's and don'ts. Omnidirectional mics pick up sounds from all directions and should be mounted 5 to 8 inches (12 to 20 cm) below the pastor’s mouth.

Unidirectional mics with a cardioid or supercardioid polar pattern offer a greater degree of protection from feedback problems, but are more susceptible to plosives, wind noise and proximity effect.

Pastor Louie Gibbs Jr of Radical City Church and CEO of Blackstonia Capital.

Young pastors face unique obstacles and challenges. Sure they may be challenges with leading God's people, but most of the problems in my ministry are not external, but internal. The six challenges are largely a result from my own experience. Pastoral ministry is gloriously challenging. If you are a young pastor, may these six challenges be helpful for you as you identify potential obstacles. If you are a church member with a younger pastor, you can pray especially for him in these areas. Yet, I'm sure that I will come to find that these six challenges are not unique to young pastors but are challenges all shepherds face. So here they are, six challenges young pastors face.
1. The Challenge of Experience
2. The Challenge of Balance
3. The Challenge of Patience
4. The Challenge of Respect
5. The Challenge of Humility
6. The Challenge of Trust

However we take a deeper dive into church planting organizations - Being a young black pastor and its unique challenges.

Feedback occurs whenever the sound entering a microphone is reproduced by a loudspeaker, picked up by the microphone, and re-amplified again and again. ... Other contributing factors are too many open microphones, poor room acoustics, and uneven frequency response in the microphones or the loudspeakers.

What can be done to stop audio feedback in these cases?
1. Move the microphone.
2. Move the monitor.
3. Use a microphone with a directional polar pattern such as a cardioid.
4. Turn down the monitor volume.
5. Turn down microphone channel's gain.

Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-f9qw18PRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7FXr2b0VR4

Louis Sandoval is a AV Technician at Twitter who began his journey at his local church.
The CSP crew talks about working as a professional in the corporate world.
What is an AV Technician? According to Study.com, “Audiovisual technicians set up, operate, maintain and repair equipment used to enhance live events, such as microphones, video recorders, projectors, lighting and sound mixing equipment.

Prentiss Thompson breaks down the mistake of mic cupping . Most microphones have a cardioid pick up pattern which means they take in sound from mostly the front part and reject from the sides and the back parts of the microphone. This type of pattern helps in preventing other sounds from the ambient environment from being picked up, and especially from monitor speakers in front of the performer.

If enough of the same sound that the performer makes gets in from the monitor speakers, you start a feedback loop and that's when you hear the loud squelches and high pitched ear destroying screeches in speakers.

When you cup a microphone, you're essentially changing the pick up pattern and making it what's called omnidirectional. Since you have the cup at the back of mic, you get reflections of the performer and the sound gets pushed back into the mic instead of being rejected, easily creating a feedback loop. No good.

Sanghyun Kim the head engineer of Manna Church joins the conversation with the CSP Crew discussing his duties at a church with multiple sites. Church production before Covid and the future Post-Covid.
Manna Church has been serving military communities for over 40 years and is strategically planting expressions of Manna Church along the Military Highway. We believe that the Church exists wherever God’s people gather. An expression of Manna Church could meet in its own designated building, a local school or gym, a home, or even online.
https://manna.church/

Reverb occurs when a sound hits any hard surface and reflects back to the listener at varying times and amplitudes to create a complex echo, which carries information about that physical space.

An echo is a single reflection of a soundwave off a distance surface. Reverberation is the reflection of sound waves created by the superposition of such echoes