by Kevin Ott | Oct 9, 2013 | Music Directors, Praise Music, Praise Teams
Setting Moral Standards for the Worship Team: Character vs. Talent We were so close to the former Soviet Union that when I stepped off the Sunday train on a frosty October morning, I could see glimmering minarets of Russian Orthodox churches in the distance. My wife...
by Kevin Ott | Oct 2, 2013 | Audio 101, Church Media
Calling All Church Audio Tech Teams – A Secret Recipe for Enhancing EQ! Mixing audio is hard enough without one of the great sound engineering geniuses of our time looking over your shoulder. Curtis Roads, the former editor of MIT’s Computer Music Journal and...
by Kevin Ott | Sep 28, 2013 | Movies/TV/Books
Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 There is a famous scene from the film Jurassic Park where, as a T-Rex approaches in the distance, the water in a character’s glass ripples ominously. In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, a giant walking taco draws near,...
by Kevin Ott | Sep 27, 2013 | Movies/TV/Books
A Christian Review of The Michael J. Fox Show It’s not every day that you get to see a semi-retired award-winning Hollywood icon—the affable Michael J. Fox himself—go back to the future and take another shot at television success. He’s done it twice before...
by Kevin Ott | Sep 26, 2013 | General Christian Topics
Scaling the Wall of Sound in Worship: Part 3 In Part One of this series, we looked at the history of the Wall of Sound from its use in 1960s pop music to the present day. In Part Two, we surveyed some of the benefits of the ever-rising Wall of Sound in worship. I am...