authored by Michael Esh
I am a techie… anyone who knows me well will confirm that. I enjoy all things tech-related… computers, video editing, live video, sound, lighting, audio recording, and the list goes on. Some of them I am actually quite proficient in, others I just dabble in. It’s fascinating stuff.
The curse that goes along with this is that fact that if I am at a concert, and there is a buzz in the sound system, it drives me bonkers. It might be MercyMe singing “Word Of God Speak”, but all I hear is that buzz (that actually happened, by the way). I can be at church and the whole congregation is in the middle of a beautiful worship moment, but if the computer operator briefly puts the wrong words on the screen, I notice it (that has happened, too.) Or if the worship leader’s voice through the mic sounds “muddy” to me, all I want to do is run over to the sound board and adjust a couple of knobs for that poor sound tech (yup, also happened… WANTING to do it, that is.)
It happened again this past Sunday. We were entering into a beautiful time of worship at church, the worship leader started singing, and his microphone wasn’t turned on. He sang through the whole first line of the song before the sound tech got it on. I leaned over to my friend and said, “The sound man just messed up.” My friend said, “Why, what happened?” He had never noticed. And I started thinking…
What place do all these things have in worship? The lights, the cameras, the graphics, isn’t all this stuff just distracting me? Wouldn’t it be better if there weren’t so many different elements? I mean, if you don’t have a big screen, you can’t accidentally. . .
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