Episodes

  • You Shouldn’t Hear The Background Vocals*

    You Shouldn’t Hear The Background Vocals*
    Jan 15 2025
    Background vocals are pretty important to a worship team, just not for the reasons most people think. In a perfect world, BGV’s will never be heard but too often they are being turned down because of some easily fixable reasons. Confused? You should take a listen because it all makes perfect sense when you know[...]
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    16 mins
  • Why Acoustic Guitars Get Turned Down

    Why Acoustic Guitars Get Turned Down
    Jan 8 2025
    If you want to stay in the mix as an acoustic guitar player, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Today, we are going over the main reasons the acoustic guitar gets buried by others on the team or turned down at the soundboard.
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    24 mins
  • Why Piano Players Get Turned Down

    Why Piano Players Get Turned Down
    Jan 1 2025
    The piano is a force to be reckoned with, but it often gets sliced, diced, buried, or muted early and often. Today we talk about the root cause of it and discuss how to fix it. Even if you don’t play the piano, you should listen to this episode.
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    18 mins
  • How To Not Get Turned Down On The Drums

    How To Not Get Turned Down On The Drums
    Dec 25 2024
    We do a lot on worship teams to try and turn down the drums but all it really takes is some know how to get the sound that we’re looking for at the volume that we need.
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    20 mins
  • Turning Each Other Off

    Turning Each Other Off
    Dec 18 2024
    One of the biggest reasons we get turned down is because we are doing the exact same thing as other people on our team. In a live setting, this turns into a volume war that someone wins and others lose. In this episode we talk about why that happens and how to easily fix it.
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    26 mins
  • Trying To Play Louder Gets You Turned Down

    Trying To Play Louder Gets You Turned Down
    Dec 11 2024
    People often get turned down trying to do something that isn’t necessary in the first place. Today we talk about how to play in a way that keeps you in the mix but feels like it’s following the overall dynamics of the sound by getting louder without actually being louder. https://youtu.be/bgXRFNJn3q0
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    26 mins
  • Stop Turning Yourself Down

    Stop Turning Yourself Down
    Nov 27 2024
    If you get stuck in the cycle of pride, you’ll convince yourself to turn yourself off and then feel like you’re awesome. So today we tackle the sensitive topic of what we do when we are not as good as we’d like to be. What we do in this moment is a big deal, maybe[...]
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    25 mins
  • Pushed Out By Too Much Sound

    Pushed Out By Too Much Sound
    Nov 20 2024
    Unfortunately, people are not very good at going from a recording to a live performance. So, today, we give you a practical example of how to adapt a recorded song for a live environment. We walk you through a multi track recording and demonstrate how the change in systems between recorded music and live music[...]
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    28 mins