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It’s Too Loud! Every Church Creatives Nightmare

Stephen Brewster offers some interesting insight.

If you have not had someone come up to you and ask you to turn down the PA system at your church at least once you are either running it at 45DB or have only been on the job for 2 Sundays. We all hear it and often times wonder what in the world people are talking about. This might provide some insight!

I love that our music guys (Matt Warren) (Jarrod Morris) work hard to develop worship culture at Cross Point.

Over break Matt was reading an article about a study that was done about volumes in venues. A band played a bunch of popular songs. Then they turned around and played a bunch of new songs that no one had heard. The audio team did not change ANYTHING. Not a decibel. Those being studied felt the music that was original and new to them was louder than the stuff they were familiar with. This is SO fascinating to me.

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Don Chapman

A prolific arranger and songwriter, Don has had songs published by Word, Integrity Music, G3worship and Worship Today, and has orchestrated music for Christian artists Chris Sligh and Jeremy Camp. He’s been featured on the 700 Club, has been quoted in USAToday and is a guest lecturer at Liberty University.

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