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  1. Less than $80 for 'premium sound' with dual drivers? The Earfun Air Pro 4 Plus earbuds are making some bold claims. Are we finally seeing true hi-fi on a budget, or is the audiophile in me just skeptical? What's your secret weapon for affordable, quality audio?

    #Earbuds #TechReview #BudgetAudio #SoundTech #Gadgets
    cnet.com/tech/mobile/earfun-ai

  2. 🎶 Calling all sound tech innovators! Submit your papers & music to the IEEE 5th Intl Symposium on the Internet of Sounds! 🎵

    🚀 First submissions are in! 🗓️ Deadline: July 10th 🔗 ieee-is2.org

    Get expert reviews, network, & present your work. Let’s shape the future of sound! 🌟

    #IEEEIS2 #SoundTech #ResearchCommunity #SubmitYourWork

  3. Oh I forgot one! During second service, our upstream connection to our streaming platforms totally disconnected. Hard. I had to force it to go to a dedicated region that was close enough to get it started again.

    We had hundreds of dropped frames and if you don’t resume a stream quickly enough, platforms will end the stream because they think it’s done. #churchtech #WereDoingItLive #livestream #soundtech #graphicstech

  4. I’m officially out of brain power as of lunchtime on Sunday. I volunteer at my church, ran today’s livestream, and know the other roles such as graphics/lyrics and audio. This all came in handy because every station had significant issues this morning.

    Here’s a list, roughly in order of how this morning went down:

    1. Got church around 7:00, 15 minutes early, because I woke up around 5:30. We had no audio whatsoever.
    2. Our normal tech director/worship leader was off this weekend – or so he thought. He ended up getting called in after we couldn’t get the audio working no matter what we tried. It’s now 8:15 and the band can start rehearsing, nearly an hour late.
    3. After rebooting everything in the proper sequence, we got audio.
    4. Except the live stream didn’t have the room mics in our DAW. Stream will lack some ambiance today.
    5. We also didn’t have a graphics person this weekend because of scheduling reasons, so we went from 3 people down to 2. Between me and the sound tech, we’re doing double duty. The first song lyrics were also not timed correctly with MIDI so they were behind.
    6. Two minutes in to first service, the lyrics feed to the streaming video switcher started flickering uncontrollably. There’s a 0.0% chance I’m going to show that on stream, so I don’t. I have to change the angles of all our cameras to also see lyrics/slides off the projector.
    7. Tried to fix item 6 between services, crashed ProPresenter 7 two minutes before second service. That software handles all visual multimedia.
    8. Shortly after going live on Facebook, we get copyright notices (because those are automatically scanned for every stream) for music. It thinks we don’t have the rights, even though we do.

    My favorite expression in live music is ‘we’re doing it live’. Despite all the issues listed above, very few actually impacted service in a meaningful way.

    #churchtech #WereDoingItLive #livestream #soundtech #graphicstech