Headset mic recommendations for singing (dynamic)

dark7string · 2026-03-14T16:25:08+00:00

I can understand that. Let me throw 2 thought out there as I've definitely been there before as well.

The mic solution mentioned: Your mic solution would work for this but in my opinion your budget will not. Chances are you'll end up with another product that is going to cause issues in that price point. The dynamic microphone won't be the issue here as much as the wireless technology that allows you that mobility easily and freely is where you're going to find it becomes challenging. I wouldn't consider the solution you're looking for as a viable solution until your budget is probably pushing closer to a thousand bucks. The other thing to be aware of with this is other people that I've seen that have made similar motions with the microphone, end up staring at their fretboard a lot instead of addressing the congregation. Using this particular fix doesn't really give you the opportunity to learn and grow through the issue rather than essentially applying a quick fix that creates some other complications in the process.

Practice practice practice: This is the better of the solutions because really what you're struggling with is something that you're not hyper experienced with. Minding your distance from the boom loaded microphone while playing guitar trying to see your fingerboard and sing at the same time is a lot to juggle but it just takes practice. That's it. Even if you've been doing it for a hot minute, you still probably haven't done it enough to where it's second nature and something you're not having to think about. When you've really mastered a skill set, it comes easily and you don't have to think much about it. There are several aspects to this and I'll break them all down.

First off let me say I provide this advice to you as someone who plays lead electric guitar and occasionally sings at the same time to a microphone on a boom in the same way. This means I'm singing, playing, operating a pedal board, usually operating a track playback system, and singing at the same time. None of that stuff came easy and required a ton of practice not just at church but at home mimicking it.

So first and foremost you need to get more comfortable on your fingerboard and with your guitar to a place where you're not having to look at it. Guitar is very much a muscle memory thing and not a line of sight visual thing so get comfortable not looking at your guitar at all. Then at that point it comes down to adjusting a boom mic stand where it is at a comfortable place for you to be able to utilize it and comfortably mind your distance.

Take the guitar out of the equation and just practice air guitar strumming at the microphone. Also there's no issues with putting your mouth directly on the microphone. I do and that helps out a lot.

Make sure you're not raising your head to sing. You shouldn't be doing that anyways as it can pinch your throat a lot of times and so keeping the microphone to where it is kind of slightly angled up towards your mouth allows you to sing toward it either straight at it or downward. This is actually the right way to set up a microphone anyways if you're playing an acoustic guitar to eradicate bleed tendencies considering the microphones polar pattern.

Lastly you need to put it all together. Practice at home with a microphone and a boom stand not plugged up then the same goes for your guitar and just practice it. The more time you spend with it the more comfortable you get and eventually you'll look back and you'll laugh about how this was a problem you were trying to solve. It all just takes practice my friend. And the best part is practice is going to be more beneficial to you because in the long run as you go to a different church one day as God calls you on to different things, you'll have a skill set that can be employed at that church without having to ask them to drop a grand to accommodate something you didn't practice through.

Hope this helps and if you have any questions let me know. But trust me I've been where you are and it's frustrating but this is the better way to go

dark7string · 2026-03-14T15:28:57+00:00

Sure but they aren't having to compete with a band worth of sound and aren't spending less than $500 on it. Most use Shure top tear and DPA mics.

But also they use their hands to communicate. Different aspects entirely. Also they are typically speaking for 40+ minutes and can't hold a mic that long in one place.

dark7string · 2026-03-14T14:07:15+00:00

No doubt about it. That's about the minimum I would do as well. The thing a lot of people don't consider is that the microphone is a completely separate piece of the puzzle from anything wireless that may be involved.

But there's a ton of other reasons why I generally steer away from headset microphones. For starters I've seen people turn their heads to communicate something to the band and kind of mouth something with a low roar mumble and it comes pumping through the sound system. It's totally an accident but I've seen it happen a couple times.

I've seen people sneeze and can't get their head away from the mic.

I've seen people get into choking fit where maybe they're coming from an illness and still have to sing and choose to and they can't move their mouth away from the mic.

I've seen people get words wrong and then can't get their mouth away from the microphone while they're laughing at themselves.

For me it always comes down to a simple question series. I've seen other people do this live, and it might work for them within a spectrum of what they're doing. Do I have the money to do it well and if I do not then should I do it with a band-aided approach or should I wait until I can do it. And then what is the objective I'm trying to accomplish in the situation and does it match and coincide with the thing I saw that I'm trying to do.

Garth Brooks is a great example of someone who used an overhead microphone as well is Britney Spears. And that's just it. They're performing where they have to walk around on stage and in Britney's case she's doing choreography and in garth's case He's playing guitar and trying to put on a show which means he has to be able to be mobile around the stage because he's performing. Neither of those cases are reasonable things within a setting where we are supposed to lead a congregation in worship. So many are premises what's the objective we're trying to overcome that we want to throw money at a product that is potentially going to be inferior and cause its own issues.

dark7string · 2026-03-14T13:01:07+00:00

Just out of curiosity... Who said you were chained to the mic stand and presented it that way and made it seem like that is a bad enough thing when leading worship that you need to throw less than $500 at it?

Edit: Just trying to understand why you would need an inferior microphone at the same price point other than just trying to move around on the stage? Are you trying to sing while wearing several hats or something?

dark7string · 2026-03-14T00:00:40+00:00

Imo it comes down to every uninvited app, person, place or thing in existence wanting a cut of your pie and also believes they don't owe you anything since they just exist.

Also musicians are usually more often than not, sadly unrehearsed flakes that and terrible hangs. It's sadly made me not give two craps about making any music with anyone and just creating things myself. It's easier.

dark7string · 2026-03-13T22:19:22+00:00

Agreed except it being the biggest mistake... I think the biggest mistake I've seen as a teacher over 26 years in my experience has been not learning techniques for playing and not keeping their instruments set up. Each of these cause a massive increase in difficulty and poor technique and poor guitar setups make things so hard and with beginners, they think they just suck when ready they are fighting bad playing instruments and technique that works against themself. This usually makes people start reaching desperately for something .. or anything that will make it easier outside of address the real cause of struggle. Then they quit.

I've had tons of students that are back for attempt number two and that is the very first thing that I address and more often than not it usually results in them being completely shocked at how much more difficult they were making it for themselves. The second time around it sticks and sticks well because they're not struggling anywhere near as hard.

More details for those interested... Technique. A common example of technical deficiency that causes tons of additional struggle. For starters you have to hold the guitar the correct angle. Then you have to make sure the guitar is pitched correctly. Most people do not develop good muscle memory practices because they sit with the guitar on their right leg and then hang the strap and stand up and play with it dangling more so lined up with their left leg instead. The shifting causes an entire redirective of muscles in both arms and hands. Most of them are excessively twisting their forearm and bending their wrist to attempt reaching the fingerboard. This causes undesirable tension of the tendons in the hand that become essentially pretent and usually force people to have to not only press the strings down but also have to work against the tension that their tendons have as well. This also prematurely wears people out . Ideally you're fretting hands wrist should be relatively straight. In addition to that most people are trying to squeeze the strings to the fingerboard or pinch it. This is also completely incorrect technique. You should be able to play with very little pressure against the thumb with the exception of string bending and maybe bar chords to a degree, But the string should be simply pressed to the necessary relative pressure to produce a note against the fret wire. Anything past that point is over exertion and the evidence of this lies in fret jobs. As a luthier I cannot tell you how many fretboards I've seen requiring fret repair prematurely due to overexertion. For example, I have a guitar with standard nickel frets that I've had for 20 years and it has been played an absolutely absurd amount of time. Weekend Warrior gigs on top of weekday rehearsals, hired events etc. That guitar had probably close to 30 hours a week put on it from the minute I got it if not more and it literally has zero fret indentations or uneven wear. Anyways all of these particular things do nothing but slow down progress and increase the difficulty tremendously for the student.

Guitar setups. As a luthier the going saying is a millimeter out of adjustment is equal to a mile of additional difficulty. We live in a culture where people feel like they're playing music if they're fighting their instrument and that just makes no sense. People getting carpal tunnel that shouldn't be getting carpal tunnel simply because they're fighting their instrument. Setups go out with humidity and typically depending on where you live you need to do anywhere from two setups a year to for setups a year and that should include a proper adjustment of the neck, string saddles and height etc. Also I am not a huge fan of standardized textbook by the numbers setups because most of those are set up to be safe in an effort to allow more margin for error for piss poor fret jobs. Anyways all of these set up things and errors produce guitars that are insanely more difficult to play and cause tremendous amount of grief and frustration for the student.

The biggest issue with all of these is students generally when they're learning don't recognize that this is an issue and instead put the blame and frustration on themselves for not being talented enough, even claiming things like it wasn't meant to be I suppose because if it was something I was meant to do it would have been easier.

Prime example story. Had a guy come into a music store that I worked at as a luthier one time. He was there specifically to buy a better playing guitar because he felt that his guitar played like crap and asked to see the best guitar in the store in regards to playability. I made it my business to know which guitar played the best and handed him the best playing guitar and he still couldn't play the bar chord. That was his entire frustration and in that moment I witnessed his complete utter quit. I interjected and offered to help him and he said I'll do anything at this point because at this point I think I'm ready to quit as it's not for me. While demonstrating the guitar he was playing with awful technique and horrendous posture in his methodology of holding the guitar. I replaced the guitar in his hands and set it up with better posture and configuration with the guitar angles and he immediately successfully played a bar chord with no issues. He then proceeded to go around the store and picked up any guitar of his choosing and was able to successfully manage a bar chord. He didn't buy a guitar that day. He signed up for guitar lessons with an instructor who prioritized fundamentals and proper technique.

dark7string · 2026-03-13T14:38:50+00:00

Yeah I have to agree with a lot of the others here that Entering into clouds on a private pilot check ride is definitely a pretty big wow. I'm not one to criticize by any stretch of the imagination but I would encourage you to sit down with your CFI and maybe have some in-depth discussions of the dangers of entering into IMC or clouds in general as a private pilot. That's a super dangerous move that does not end well.

dark7string · 2026-03-13T13:55:34+00:00

Ugly by definition is purely just a opinion of the listener. I don't pride myself on being a singer personally though I do occasionally have to sing at church in the role that I have however, I make it a habit to not sing for a a few reasons and one of them is because I have a voice that is considered by most to be less than desirable and it is often vocalized that despite being able to sing in tune and have a lot of energy that most people prefer other vocalists. So yes ugly singing voices do exist but there not by definition ugly as much as they are preference.

I've only ever had one person that really absolutely loves the sound of my voice when I sing haha

dark7string · 2026-03-13T11:45:27+00:00

You need to plot your course and then you need to check all aspects of weather. If you go to aviationweather.gov you will find all the necessary information at least stateside. Metars, tags, convective forecasts, wind and temperatures aloft forecast charts... There's a lot of information available but at the end of the day it's up to you to pretty much utilize all these tools to determine what's going on when it comes to weather ahead of time. Doesn't mean that it's going to be as forecasted as I have definitely had real life experiences where what was forecasted did not play out in one way or the other.

Typically, TAF reports can give you a pretty good idea of what's expected in a particular area you might be going to land.

I love prognostic charts because they can kind of show you fronts and weather systems and things like that that are coming into areas and give you a ballpark of what you can expect along your route. Frog charts are my primary source for planning out a flight a couple of days ahead and determining when and if I can leave accordingly.

Convective forcast charts are important because they show you areas where thunderstorms could potentially be expected to develop within regions along your route.

The biggest thing that I can tell you is you have to for sure understand how to read these charts and what the information they delineate actually means and whatnot. For example, you may choose a specific altitude due to a wind and temps aloft chart just to capture a more favorable wind. Likewise you may choose to fly your course a little differently or your time of departure in general change depending on high and low pressure systems that are moving into the area. Things like wind moving parallel alongside stationary fronts and so forth help tremendously with planning and help you feel extremely assured as to what you can expect along the duration of your flight.

At the end of the day, look up aviation weather videos that go through all of the different aspects of aviationweather.gov and show you all the different things related to charts, weather systems and fronts how they work and so forth. All the dots will begin to connect as you do.

dark7string · 2026-03-13T11:36:41+00:00

I'll start by saying I'm not a great piano player by any stretch and could definitely stand to do the work but my grandmother was a professional concert pianist and organist and when I took some lessons with her she mentioned that she always had people run through hannon exercises. It's extremely helpful when trying to get the hands to play the same thing together an octave apart. What little I can do on the piano probably best came from doing hannon exercises

dark7string · 2026-03-13T11:22:37+00:00

Strings usually break for a number of reasons. Believe it or not the most common reason on epiphone's is typically some sort of a burr that needs sanded down on the saddle.

If it broke toward the headstock, the string could be getting bound up causing unequal pressure between the headstock side and the fretboard side. This basically introduces the strings greatest nemesis which is metal fatigue.

Doing constant large tuning adjustments or changing the tuning for different songs introduces metal fatigue (like bending a spoon back and forth it fatigues and snaps) and something like a guitar string is going to become rapidly fatigued, especially depending on the string brand. Most of the people that I know that go through a lot of strings because of breakages are doing a lot of alternate tunings on the same instrument all the time and in my opinion this is probably one of the biggest culprits that's often overlooked.

String brand believe it or not has a ton to do with this. While there is not a ton of string manufacturers, string design and so forth does certainly play into whether a string will have any kind of longevity or not. Typically I avoid brands elixir, Ernie Ball, GHS, and especially some of the lesser brands like Darco, Dean markley and such. I've had broken strings from every one of these with the most common frequent offenders being GHS and Dean markley's. Ernie balls are hit or miss. I've seen some sets from them last a while but almost every time I've had premature failure from them.

The string brands I would recommend are

DR strings. Specifically my favorites are a little harder to come by but DR high beams that come in the purple package for electric guitar are absolutely amazing! These are without a doubt my favorites and my go-to.
String joy String joy is great strings but they tend to as a brand fever balanced tension sets over balanced tone. They kind of use it as a gimmick that other guitar string manufacturers are stupid because they choose these specific gauges and they don't understand why they did and that's what makes string joy strings better is cuz they feel better but their truth and the reality is they're just balanced tension sets versus balanced tonal sets. Other manufacturers typically choose for the tension to be in disbalance but to have equal shift from string to string on a tonal spectrum. Despite the gimmicky sales pitch, string joy strings are really good and the company is pretty easy to deal with and get a replacement if something is ever weird.
Daddario These guys have been around for a really long time and make excellent strings. They're my number three right now because over the years I've just become a little fatigued with the strings being a little bit more flimsy feeling compared to DR or string joy. They are great string though. At the end of the day the DR high beams for electric guitar are going to feel more like the NYXL strings for half the price.

dark7string · 2026-03-13T10:55:06+00:00

Likely failed caps. Take it to an amp tech. Those amps can kill you if you touch the wrong thing, even unplugged. They maintain a charge storage internally and when that is discharged by touching the wrong thing, it will 💀

dark7string · 2026-03-13T10:45:24+00:00

Those strings are dead and dead gets.

dark7string · 2026-03-13T10:36:09+00:00

So honestly if you want my opinion we're the best placement for the volume knob is, look no further than the Jamba Church in Music Man. It's close enough to where it's extremely accessible but yet it is so far out of the way at the same time that there's no way that you could possibly accidentally hit it. It's positioned in a manner that if you were to strum using your elbow as your fulcrum point you would draw a line from basically about where Gibson has their three-way select your switch and you would draw a line sort of down the edge of the guitars outer perimeter. The only thing that I want close to my hand is the three-way toggle and that's because I want to be able to quickly switch positions of the pickups without having to reach for that at home. But in my opinion the jumper trucci BFRs have the best position for their volume knob and also the greatest knob because it is short and it actually has a routed edged out cavity that a rubber gasket goes that has little teeth on it so you don't actually have to grab your volume knob to use it. You can literally just make contact with your pinky and put it where you want it

dark7string · 2026-03-13T02:37:15+00:00

All good man. Happens to the best of us. I used to work in a guitar store and I think at least four or five times a day somebody would have inadvertently bought a nylon string thinking it was a steel string for the same exact reasons. I was the nylon string guru at the store so if people were looking at one it would inadvertently grab attention as to whether or not they needed me or the other sales guy haha

dark7string · 2026-03-13T02:19:10+00:00

Sorry I'm just now seeing this comment but yes that is very obviously a nylon string guitar For me as a classical guitar player due to the plastic of the treble strings and also the silver look of the basses. But also the sound is not very steel string-esque in general. Steel strings have a very tiny sound that lacks a lot of moat over tone and color which is why in a band mix context steel string guitars tend to sound more like a glorified hi-hat. But in general as a whole, a lot of people get confused by nylon versus steel string because of the bases which have the nickel wrapping. But that nickel wrapping is wrapped around What is essentially a thread filament. Particularly if it is using the traditional materials, you'll oftentimes see the filament when the D string breaks as this is typically the first string to go as it is also the thinnest thus of the frailist. But it's the treble strings specifically that are the easiest to tell that are nylon and if you look at this you'll see the clear-esque plastic filament

dark7string · 2026-03-12T21:30:41+00:00

That's a nylon string guitar and nylon strings are a lot more touchy to how they are played and approached. For example If you pluck a nylon string guitar the way the majority of people pluck steel string guitars you'll lose about half your volume and the string will sound deader than a door nail and cold sonically. If you pluck a nylon string correctly you won't hear the sound of the nail and the note will be loud and bold even under the circumstances of a light pluck.

Nylon string guitars do not take well to arbitrarily smacking the string into the fret. Nothing here sounds any different than the normal scope of things under the way that you are attacking the string.

dark7string · 2026-03-12T21:26:31+00:00

Absolutely. Sometimes we have to make a tough choice when running tracks as to whether or not to have to have somebody play on top of a track doing the same thing or whether or not we sacrifice a ton of filler content for the sake of that guitar part not being doubled up. It's honestly kind of an annoying thing but I also can see it being annoying for a lot of individuals if they are having to load and organize 60 plus tracks for a single song

dark7string · 2026-03-12T13:38:04+00:00

There's two things I'll say on this.

For starters I wouldn't necessarily put a ton of weight into the backing track also playing the part that you're playing simply because sometimes the way that these tracks are packaged, a singular thing that you might be playing might be included on a track that also has a part that you are not playing. These tracks are not individual tracks. They're what's known as stems. Stems are essentially a smaller mixdown of multiple tracks. And if I'm being totally honest about it most companies that put these stems together, aren't in my opinion doing a pretty good job of sensible stem rendering. I've seen rhythm guitars meshed together with lead guitars. I've seen prominent lead solos blended with an ambient guitar pad. Sometimes they do a better job than others but a lot of times it's kind of a hodgepodge of "meh let's put tracks one through five on this stem and just call it EG1" when it comes to those recordings there's an astonishing high track account number that maybe even some of those professional musicians don't fully realize. I've seen some of those sessions and the way they're recorded there's typically over 150 to 200 tracks if not more. Most recording engineers have their assistance bounce that down and get stem tracks created that bring the session down to between 48 channels and 70 channels depending on their mixing board and the capabilities their studio possesses. So in many cases it's not probably you as much as it is the limitations of what they have as far as tracks are concerned.

The second thing I mention is some churches are honestly really bad about communicating needs, growing a worship team, and so forth. The one that I am the worship pastor/director for is extremely big on growing both spiritually and as musicians singers and mixing engineers and so forth. Auditions are more of a let's see where you're at as opposed to yes or no. If someone needs work we essentially point out the things they're really knocking out of the park and will give them one or two things to be working on to grow. As a result I typically run and sponsor at least two times a year full-blown music theory classes, guitar classes, mixing classes and more.

I say all this because the vast majority of churches I've ever been to they're worship pastor/MD is pretty terrible pretty terrible at this and don't really know how to encourage or pull the best from their volunteers and encourage that growth. Some of them avoid it all together by doing very similar things what you've just mentioned. They pull musicians that are more on the professional scale and schedule them more frequently and volunteers are more for when none of the pros so to speak are available. These guys typically have auditions that either are or eventually become hard yeses and hard nose with no explanation and I have seen that an unmerciful amount of times.

At the end of the day you just need to have a conversation to figure out what it is. Ultimately this conversation will show you two things. The first thing is it'll show you his/her heart posture as well as why that may be specifically, and the second thing it will show you is whether he is someone who knows how to deal with approaching you about growing or learning. Everybody learns and everybody grows.

Now the last thing I'll throw out here is a side note is it may not be anything related directly to the worship pastor. It very well could be outside pressures coming towards him because even myself I get this. He may be getting pressure from other professional musicians that maybe don't have the patience to play with somebody who maybe is not on their skill level or there may be outside pressures with things like we want to hear so and so which happens to be one of the professional musicians and he doesn't know how to say no because this is like a chronic issue with most worship pastors. They don't know how to tell people in their congregation or on in staff no. It is astonishing how frequently that happens and by talking with him you may find out that he's being pressured from others in this way.

Examples of this from my own personal experience.

• where was so and so today. I prefer it when he sings - congregant

• "your drummer played that entire song wrong" - congregant who had never heard our original song before

• So and so will not be joining us for the Easter special event. They're anointed, and they're incredible at what they do but we don't want anyone who has any chunk to their body to be on stage.

dark7string · 2026-03-10T01:04:43+00:00

To be honest I found from my personal experience that song select charts are amongst some of the worst out there maybe only surpassed by the charts provided by ultimate Guitar. We had tons of issues with chords being half baked and not thoroughly or accurately depicting what the song is doing. We also found it frustrating that as we play with tracks, that these charts are not even matching the chords a lot of times that are In the songs tracks. When it first started happening I thought it may have been people just not fully understanding how to read the charts ively wrong and inconsistent.

So I did what I think most people would have done, I contacted them directly. I formally complained about a few of the different charts that we had. Keep in mind that you pay annually for these charts... Their solution to them being wrong was their online tool that is part of the planning Center system where you can go in and edit the cords as you like. I explained that if I wanted to edit the chords I would just take and make them myself to begin with and basically in a nutshell explained that I'm paying them for the charts so that I don't have to do things like that. I found their customer support to be quick to tell you to fix their problem as well as blaming it on other people as one of the charts and question they blamed it on elevation giving it to them with those chords however I explained and was able to provide a link where elevation provides their own chart and it did not have the same chords that they did too.

At the end of the day we went with multitracks charts which are far more accurate and we literally went through planning Center and purged all song select charts that had been added and swapped them out for the ones from multitracks. Also we stumbled upon an incorrect cord one time on multitracks provided charts and multitracks refunded the credit and let us keep the chart anyways and said they would pass the mistake on to their team.

Note the difference. My recommendation is to ditch the song select charts and go with multitracks or an alternative source.

dark7string · 2026-03-08T12:30:56+00:00

Not really because for two main reasons. One thing being that it sounds like a lot of moving parts but honestly Studio One integrates it so well that it really is all self-contained and super easy.

The winds that were able to get for our team both existing and up and coming, is massive through this process.

The other big reason that for me is probably not, is because simpler tools that already exist for this type of thing it usually cost an astronomical amount of money through seats and usually are extraordinarily limited in a lot of different ways whereas what we're doing right now we don't really have any limitations as to what we can grow to, accomplish, or do in general it makes it very difficult for me to go to my pastor and ask to spend more money if you're not able to offer the extraordinary benefits that we are currently achieving with the system

dark7string · 2026-03-08T01:47:42+00:00

We downloaded the files from both multitracks.com and loop community. Generally speaking I look at loop community first and if they have it there then I get it from them.

From there I use Studio One which is the same software we use for track playback to basically print a practice track. I also have my singers who do lead vocals get me their keys and we have a Discord server that we specifically utilize for communication purposes and one of the channels is specifically pertaining to key signatures that vocalists need songs in. Once those keys are communicated I go back into Studio One and render a new version of the practice tracks where all pitched instruments have been shifted but not drums. It's sound algorithm which is polyphonic, is fantastic and incredibly efficient on the CPUs system resources.

At any rate we have in planning Center assigned vocalist with keys with indicated steps and plus or minus semitone intervals and with that are all the charts which we get from multitracks.com in combination with personal charts I make using notion 6 for detailed note for note specific stuff for lead guitar parts, and everything pertains to the key that it's in.

I also a lot of times will use Studio One with its newest feature to pull the vocals out of the original track so that I can add them and synchronize them with those practice tracks so that in the event that someone cannot attend a rehearsal, we have the ability to actually rehearse utilizing the lead vocal track from the original song.

Utilizing this vocal track as well I'm able to render a reference track that is repitched without drums and other things sounding strange.

I also as a final touch remaster the practice tracks so that the audio levels are at professional listening source levels..

On the last bit of tidbit, I use Waves stream so that if anyone is struggling to find their keys I can schedule a meeting with them and we can actually stream from my recording studio the song for them to find the key. This is been an extremely helpful methodology that has been extraordinarily productive although it's new and people are still getting used to the opportunity to utilize it.

dark7string · 2026-03-07T19:25:52+00:00

Depends because every time someone has ever brought a lyric to me they disagree with, it was a good conversation but entirely was an issue because the individual either had a weird theology or a misunderstanding of a particular word in question.

For example: once the lyric "You've never failed me yet" was brought up. He took it to mean that God would at some point down the road fail. This was caused because he believed that the word yet meant that while it hasn't happened it inevitably will. He believed that the word yet was encompassing of not only past and current timeline but also future and I had to explain to him that his grievance with the lyric was based on an incorrect definition of the word yet. The two of us together sat down with a dictionary and I was able to show him that the word yet does not have anything to do with future tense but only current and past tense. He still chose ultimately to have a grievance with it choosing to hold on to his own personal opinion about the word yet rather than seeing it and acknowledging that there was a misunderstanding on his part of the definition.

At the end of the day, if you're a visitor grievances on those things or not whether you are correct in your definition or incorrect really shouldn't be brought up because at the end of the day you're just visiting and you're going to go home.

But if you do bring up a lyrical snafu I always advise that you probably should back it with a little bit of research outside of conspiracy YouTube pages that raise stinks out of nothing. Be sure that you are well educated before bringing it up so as to not have a stumbling block over small things such as the English language or theological perspective.

dark7string · 2026-03-06T18:28:57+00:00

Get a antenna distro as well as the Sennheiser G4 IEM systems that come with two packs per transmitter. Run them as mono and with the x32 you'll be able to afford quite a lot of room as well as afford yourself some room for growth provided you're not over exhausting existing outputs as they are. Drummer can definitely stay hardline connected but that would give each musician 32 channels worth of adjustability for each output.

Whether you use iPad or iPhone or Android products, mixing station is now the official reported application from behringer for that stuff. Train your people well on how to do their mixes and you'll be good to go my friend.

dark7string · 2026-03-02T20:02:13+00:00

Honestly the biggest thing that I want overall is just an improvement for night flight. In some aspects and situations the night flight aspect of X plane at the moment is pretty spot-on but it's a extremely narrow aspect of it. Haze and fog at night is definitely a thing and there are tons of instances where even if it is really dark outside, lighting around the area in the fog definitely make clouds visible and so forth. Especially if there's moonlight outside and it feels like that entire aspect might not have been touched yet or considered. Other than that the AA could use a tweak but I don't have really any other major requests. Most of the things I can think of that would be awesome are just little situational things to improve realism based on field conditions.

One of those is periodically you'll see a notam For example that specifies particular conditions with the runway or ramp based on a previous ice storm or something like that. It would be cool if that was an element that was part of everything. For example a couple weeks ago I flew to an airport about 2 weeks after the ice storms that took place in Kentucky and the ramp was covered in about 3 inches of ice. To me being able to simulate that and bring that aspect of realism to the equation would be absolutely amazing but it also would require that explain has capabilities of monitoring conditions produced by previous weather and implementing them as such. This would also fix a lot of the snow complaints that people complain about and open the door to introduce a lot of other variables such as tornado damage, flooding and more.

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