Sound & Video Contractor presents features & columns related to microphone technology

Installation Profile: HD Distance Education

By Dan Daley

The concept of distance learning has a contemporary ring to it, but it's rooted less in the high tech of the 21st century than it is in the social revolutions of the 1960s...

Expert Roundtable: Church Sound Trends

By Dan Daley

Technology continues to go to church; this edition of the expert roundtable finds that even the recession isn't holding it back...

Installation Profile: New Life, New Sanctuary

By Trevor Boyer

There was always room for expansion on the campus of New Life Church, a nondenominational congregation based in Louisville, Ky...

World-changing Event, Part 1

By John W. DeWitt

Marketing hype aside, few corporate events legitimately lay claim to changing the world. One is Saatchi & Saatchi’s World Changing Ideas Awards ceremony....

The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Lakewood Church, Houston

By Bennett Liles

The increasingly sophisticated and elaborate performances being done in churches in the past few years have stretched the limits of staging, lighting,...

Sound Advice: Into the Deep White Spaces

By Dan Daley

While you're at InfoComm, you may hear a ubiquitous referencing of the term “white space...

Audio Podcast: Best Approaches for Mics

In this edition, Luis Guerra, associate manger of technical training at Shure, talks with Sound & Video Contractor Contributing Editor Bennett Liles about the best way for church technicians to use wired and wireless microphones ...

Conservatory Invests in Student Laptop Program

By Linda Seid Frembes

The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences (CRAS) is the premier school for audio recording, engineering, and production education with campuses in Tempe and Gilbert, Ariz. The Conservatory's 900 hour Master Recording Program II is a 42-week program in which students spend 30 intensive weeks on campus learning about sound reinforcement...

Installation Profile: Mission: Invisible

By Jack Kontney

When the Services Group of America (SGA) built its new headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz., one of the goals was to create an infrastructure that enabled...

The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: University of Buffalo Neurosurgery Department, Buffalo, NY

By Jessaca Gutierrez

When IP Logic, a voice and data solutions provider based in Albany, N.Y., initially contracted with the University of Buffalo's (UB) Neurosurgery Department,...