Product Reviews

With their new free iPad app, "front of house" can be anywhere in your church!  Up to 10 praise band musicians can control their own monitor mixes.  

Introducing StudioLive Remote, the free iPad app that works with any PreSonus digital mixer.  It gives you hands-on control of channel levels, mutes, panning, EQ and more for multiple channels at once.  Click for a closeup Fat Channel view.  Tweak monitor mix levels, panning and processing.  Adjust the graphic EQ's, well...graphically.  

Combine Studio Live Remote with Capture (2-click multitrack recording program), VSL, plus Studio One artist DAW, and your church has the most versatile, affordable live mixing/recording solution ever.  

Get the whole story here. 

And then get a StudioLive.  We've got them in stock for immediate shipment!

Imagine allowing your sound technicians and your individual musicians to have control of your StudioLive anywhere in the room. Think of it as a "free" personal monitor mixer with no wires required. 

An overhead drum microphone?  Sure.  Ever heard of an "underhead" microphone?  From what some would tell, Bob Workman (the Front of House engineer for Charlie Daniels) invented the concept.  

For visual reasons, people have tried to pick up cymbal sounds for years from below the cymbals themselves, but the technique never worked well since most microphones don't have good rear and side rejection.  In short, most microphones, if placed in the underhead position pick up the toms, and too much of the rest of the drum kit. 

The Heil PR 31 BW came as a result of a suggestion from Bob Workman. Bob uses the Heil PR30 for for many applications, but found it too long, so Bob Workman asked Bob Heil whether he could cut one in half.  Bob Heil said yes, and from that discussion, the PR 31 BW was born - a 4" PR 30.  Both the PR30 and PR31 BW feature 40 dB of rear and side rejection, so you hear only what the microphone is pointed toward and not what's behind or around it.  That creates better isolation, more gain before feedback and a tighter mix.  

I haven't tried the PR31 BW for choir yet, but I think that it could make a wonderful choir microphone.  It's only 4" in length, so it would be less conspicuous than the PR30 which works really well for choir.

Flip the PR31 BW over and by using a right angle connector and the HH-1 rim mount, the PR 31BW is the perfect low profile answer for toms, too. Like the PR30, the PR 31BW is fabulous in front of a guitar cabinet, horns and saxophones, inside a Leslie speaker and I've heard rumor of acoustic piano.  I haven't tried that yet either. 

The Heil PR31 BW is a heck of an all-purpose mic.  If you think that it might be for you, let us know.  We'd be glad to have you try it to see what you think.  Heil PR31 BW is $270.00.  Click here to order yours right now.  

Heil RC35 Replacement Microphone Capsule for Shure and Line 6 Wireless Systems

We have to admit that this isn't a full-blown techie-type review, but it's one heck of an enthusiastic thumbs-up from a real-world, every week fan of the Heil RC35. 

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Hey Dave!

I Love IT! I’ve even gotten compliments on how my voice sounds so good lately, seriously! It gave my voice a whole new dimension that I’ve been dying to have!

So thank you for noticing that I have a bright voice ;) 

Its awesome! 

I’m gonna try to catch some of the CMA’s tonight (to hear Carrie Underwood on her RC35) but I have services til 8, so we’ll see.

Thanks Dave, awesome doing ministry with you!"  -Tara

Editors note:  Tara has a magnificent, strong voice, and the standard capsule on her wireless microphone just couldn't keep up when she really sang with emotion.  The improvement in performance was immediately obvious.  I heard it myself.  If you'd like to check out the Heil RC35 for yourself, please give us a call at 800-747-7301. 

We've found the mymix system to work extremely well for us in the church context. For starters, it enables the musicians to be able to control 16 inputs. This alone is a wonderful feature, considering we came from a system with only 7 input controls. But our musicians have also really enjoyed the other features of each individual mixer: personal EQ, onboard effects, pan, etc. During the first rehearsal with the new system, our electric guitar player and drummer were already trying to convince the rest of the band to try new effects they had discovered. Very intuitive interface...our band was able to use the system immediately with very little direct instruction. Further, the mixers accept an sd card, which can record every individual track for later remixing or personal rehearsal. This feature is simply amazing. But perhaps most impressive is the quality of the sound. The mymix delivers superb quality audio, enabling our musicians to play to their fullest potential. We've been extremely pleased with the overall system thus far. It has been our best tech investment for quite some time.

Jason Wilson, Worship Pastor, the Journey at First Baptist, Orange City, Florida

For more information on MyMix, please click here, or call 800-747-7301.