OwnTheMix.com Followup

We’re a few weeks into the OwnTheMix.com experiment for audio team training.  I thought it might be a good idea to provide some follow up since a few have asked offline about it.  To read more about the background of OTM for Kensington, check this out.

I continue to be very impressed by the content of OTM.  The video production is well done and the training materials are spot on for the church audio engineer.  I’m especially excited about new content that will be coming online in the next few weeks with more focus on Digidesign D-Show consoles/software and the essential ProTools training for working with click tracks and virtual soundcheck.

As solid as the micing, mixing, and interview videos are, I continue to believe the biggest value of this content will be for our team to go through it as a group.  While I may not agree with every specific suggested technique, I anticipate the discussion these topics will create among our team will be as valuable, if not more, than the video content itself.

Probably the biggest disappointment to me so far is the social networking side of the site.  It is not the most intuitive to search for other members or groups that would be interesting to follow.  There’s nothing the OTM guys can do about it, but the community side would also be more beneficial if more people actively participated in the forums and their personal profiles/groups.  Perhaps some contests for SWAG to encourage increased participation would be beneficial or something else like that.

There is no such thing as perfect in anything, and the same holds true when you talk about a training resource like OwnTheMix.  However, the content itself is so strong and unique that it overcomes any of the minor weaknesses regarding community participation.  I still wholeheartedly recommend this for teams of any size who are mixing in churches.  Thanks OTM guys for such a spot-on service!