When I Think About the LORD

Today's going to be a pretty fancy entry, complete with a musical soundtrack:

When I Think About the LORD,
how He saved me, how He raised me,
how He filled me with the Holy Ghost,
how He healed me, to the uttermost,
it makes me want to shout:
"Hallelujah!"

When I Think About my DAY,
with all the laundry and the ironing,
and all the sorting, and the folding,
with all the undies, all the white tee's,
it makes me want to shout:
"Dang that was some Laundry!"

I covered a LOT of ground today on the laundry situation. Counting total was over 23 shirts, 4 pairs of pants, plus immeasurable amounts of underwear and socks. I hate laundry. I never did a single load until I got to college.

THANK YOU MOM
THANK YOU MOM

But with NYC coming up this weekend, I needed some stuff in the clean stack, that was laying in the dirty pile.

On a lighter note, I got my first birthday card in the mail today! Thanks Grannie and Papa! (they are not internet-ers, but I wanted to say thank-you anyway)

On a second thank-ful note, Aubrey gets back tonight. She's been on the road, touring in Texas for the past few days, and I am (a) Reddie to have her back in Arkadoo.

Most of the photos on the blog lately have been from my Canon SD750. More importantly, almost ALL of them have been DIRECTLY from my camera, with NO processing.

Remember that REVIEW I did on it?

One of these days I'll shut up about this digital camera, but until then, this is the best $165 I ever spent. Any Canon shooters out there?

Zildjian 12in Hi-Hats

I've been rambling about building my own drum kit, so I figured I would stop... after this post.

Phase ONE of the building is buy my Hi-Hat cymbals. I've had my eye on a set on the internet for a few weeks, and finally placed my order. THEY GOT HERE TODAY!

It's a weird set, but it's exactly what I want in a pair of Hats.

Zildjian 12in A Custom Mastersound Top
Zildjian 12in A Series Special Recording Bottom

Oh yeah baby. Got them out of the package, put on a pair of un-necessary gloves, and carried them over to the MBSF to hit them.

After babying the cymbals for the journey, using gloves to set them up, and not so much as breathing on them, I realized something.

The entire point of cymbals is to hit them with wooden sticks. So, I don't know why I just walked in slow motion across the street to get here.

They sound just how I wanted them to. Since I know nothing about drums though, pretty much however they sounded was going to be "just how I want them," and "fantastic". :D

Anyway, so I'm pumped about these new cymbals, my FIRST cymbals, and completing Phase ONE of the drum kit building process.

Maybe when I think I know something about drums I'll do an official review on them or something. Until then, I'm enjoying my new cymbals that I know nothing about. thanks for reading!

I'm a Planner

I've got the Miss HSU Pageant this week, as well as the HSU Food Bizarre. (I'm not really sure what that is yet, I will find out)

I fly out for NYC on Saturday morning, and get back to Arkadelphia Wednesday night. I'll turn 19 while in the city.

I come back for two days of classes, and then drive home for Spring Break. Aubrey is going to Mexico, I'm going to Tennessee. I can't wait. First Baptist Bentonville is taking a group to Scotland then, so I will get to mix FOH there while their engineer Chad Plummer is out of the country. Aubrey and I will both have a couple of days in the (479) before we have to head back to down here.

We'll run back up to Bentonville a few weeks later for Easter.

Then I'm doing another show with Stephen. A Henderson show, something called "NuFusion" or something. No idea really what that is at this point, just excited.

Then, Aubrey will catch up to me and turn nineteen herself on April 23. We'll both go home that weekend.

Then it's finals, and SUMMERTIME.

Still trying to figure out what I'm going to do this summer. I've got a few freelance jobs lined up, but was hoping for a Wal-Mart internship or something. I doubt that many places will be looking for INTERNS this summer, so I might be taking more summer school classes than I thought. Aubrey and I are not messing around, and trying to get credits knocked out over the summer to possibly shave a few months off of college.

Stephen Gent

My new friend Joey works for Ouachita Baptist University. He does all the live audio needs of the school, and has treated me with way too much respect the few times we've spoken.

He has a friend who owns a Production Company, who is named Stephen Gent. Stephen needed some help for a show coming up, so Joey passed the opportunity straight to me. What a guy.

The show is, ironically enough, the Miss HSU pageant here at Henderson.

Stephen is from Dallas, and will not have time to spend a day for rehearsal and a day for the show here in Arkadelphia. That's where I come in. Stephen has all the gear, he just doesn't have the time. I've got no gear, but am eager to get as much production experience possible.

Stephen had a show this weekend in Bryant, AR. I needed the gear to be here this afternoon, so that I could get the PA all set up. His Bryant show ended this morning, so I drove up there to expedite the truck packing process.

Just like Joey, Stephen treated me with tons of respect for some reason. These guys have no reason to give me the time of day, but they both treat me really well.

I don't know how ya'll do it
UP in Bentonville
DOWN in Dallas -or-
OVER in Nashville
but down here in south Arkansas, we keep hills level with a log.

This Bryant DNOW show used Stephen's FULL system, but the Miss HSU pageant will only need a fraction of it. We packed up all the gear, drove straight to Henderson, unloaded all the gear, left what I needed, and packed all the gear back up.

Loved it.

Honestly, I had a blast. I'm looking forward to mixing the show later this week, and will be sure to post anything exciting. I'm not hoping for too much, because my roll will really just be handing out Wireless Handheld mics, and playing CDs.

Had a busy Friday and Saturday in Texarkana, and now a busy Sunday setting up a NICE NICE NICE sound system. Midas Verona at FOH, and Dynacord Cobra boxes. Even if it was a... HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY sound system.

Texarkana DNOW

This weekend my Worship Leader friend Klayton Seyler asked me to travel with him to Texarkana, to a DNOW event he was leading worship for.

Klayton had put together one heck of a group for a band.

Worship Leader: Klayton Seyler
Bass: Landon White
Drums: Justin Magness
Electric Guitar/BGD Vox: Sky Howard

Four piece bands rock for monitor mixes, since most boards only have four aux's. However, that didn't matter at this church, because they had a Yamaha LS9-32.

Yes. Sir.

Had a BLAST mixing on that digital board this weekend. Visual EQ, 16 aux's, Aviom outs, 4 Stereo channels, XLR ins.

A sound nerd's dream.

It's not the biggest board ever made, but without getting ridiculous, this board rocks.

Had a great time with the band, and since our drummer is from Texarkana, he was a good tour guide. We even got some afternoon time at his house, which was LEGIT.

Stayed at the Hampton in Texarkana. Got in the Handicapped room. Windfall there.

Handicapped dorm at Henderson.
Handicapped room at Hampton.

Klayton decided God might be preparing me for something. It was nice to have a rock solid bass player, and one electric guitar player doing the job of three. (click on photo for explanation)

Had a great time, and managed to keep the entire show under 100dB, Slow-A, the whole weekend. An accomplishment for a DNOW.

Had a little fun on our way out of the parking lot tonight.