Good morning everyone!! I have a behringer x32 console, and 8 p16 monitors. Our church is a live sound and we have an enclosed drummer, bass guitar, two electric guitars, acoustic guitar, two electric pianos and 6 vocalist, two being the leads, and finally two extra mics for our pastor and a guest speaker. Im trying to figure out if there is a way to stop pre fading going into the monitors in-ears... everytime i adjust the house sound it also changes the volume and or gives a feed back into the monitors. I been volun-told to serve and i love the opportunity. I have found that this is no easy task for anyone without previous schooling and or training. Through my two years of service I have not had any real training and only fix/mix the EQ. I have not been able to figure out how to clean up sound as well as I want in our lives atmosphere and want badly to understand and show confidence that I can adjust and correct issues as they come up. This being one of the harder issues I face as it gets the stage folks irritated as the tool they use is basically useless when I preform any tweeking of the system to better the sound of the house. Again, if you have any pointers or understand how I can correct this issue it would be greatly appreciated and helpful. Thank you for your time and help, God bless.

I'd love to give a special shout-out to our newest membership mentor, Gemi Moon. Gemi recently passed certification in The Reverse Engineer (very difficult) and was asked to be a mentor for this community. Gemi is very talented in her own right, but she also has a lot of love and compassion for other musicians. If you book calls with her, you'll quickly find that she's not only helping you get better but also giving you a bit of joy and confidence in your day. She has that kind of energy! We love Gemi and are excited for her journey as a mentor. I hope everyone can give her a warm welcome here in this community :)

Hi, I’m not happy with my acoustic guitar recording. I’ve recorded successfully in the past but that was strumming the guitar. I’ve attempted recording finger picking style on my Taylor Grand Pacific about 50 million times using an sm57 and on separate takes my AKG P170. The latter is too brittle and the 57 is not at all smooth and the tone sounds like clock chimes. On both occasions I have the mic pointing at the 12th fret going through an Apollo twin with no plug ins active. Joseph Berg suggested that another mic might be the answer and recommended the Shure SM81 condenser mic. Does anyone out there record finger style acoustic guitar, if so, what is your setup, do you use a compressor or other effects on the way in? This is royally doing my head in. tia Geoff

As I'm progressing through these classrooms, I just want to give a shout out to everybody on here. Your patience your time, the gratification is through the roof.. later today I'm just going to be putting in a 20-second snippet of something I'm working on today. Thanks to all of you with the rhythm drum Beach, different types and how to implement them. You guys are so amazing. I just want to give a shout out to everybody on this platform!!!

Have you seen this Gal on YouTube. She calls herself or her channel, Top Music Attorney. I felt compelled to share this because she really digs in really deep into just exactly what any of us are agreeing to when we use these music distribution companies (like Distrokid, CDBaby & Lander.) https://youtube.com/watch?v=guT_YIZnGmw&is=88tHlUJ7Vb-UZOa6