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Hi, I’m Andy.

I’m an artist, producer, and creative leader. A few years back I left the safety of a “day job,” and started contracting live performances and zany think-tank ideas as a way to make my living. Turns out people liked my performances, leadership and other creative stuff! Today, I use my leadership and ideas to help navigate a larger multigenerational church through a changing landscape. I’m most excited about creativity when it intersects and affects people.

Each week I post a thought, drawing, video or song that deals with the stuff I care about.

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Sep 05
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iPod Touch and Tracks

So, as I’ve written previously, with the release of my newest CD, “Mirrors and Moonbeams,” I’ve been ambitiously including background tracks into my live sets. I say “ambitious” not because I’m a stud but because getting everything to sync up in multiple applications has been a headache. I began by using software/hardware which supports multiple outputs to FOH (front of house). The sound guy could turn up or down each individual piece of track to his fancy. I started playing a few venues where the sound guy actually preferred me to send just 2 signals (click & everything else) due to limited inputs on their end. Likewise the software/hardware I was using for multiple sends turned out to be flakey and unreliable.

Just last night, the boys and I got together and I experimented with a simpler solution: bouncing all tracks to a single stereo pair with click on the left channel and everything else on the right. So far, it seems to work well! I made a playlist on my iPod touch and cue up as needed. It’s great being able to transport the tracks on such a tiny device.  I just hope live, we don’t cue up Black Eyed Peas on accident!