Then look at your high-pass filter. High-passing an acoustic is often useful, particularly in a full band, but make sure you haven’ t pushed the cutoff frequency so high that you’ ve removed too much of the instrument’ s body.
Next, listen to the low mids. The perceived“ body” of an acoustic guitar often lives higher than people expect. Instead of throwing a big low-frequency boost at it, a small, broad adjustment in the lower midrange may restore the weight you’ re missing.
And remember: EQ the acoustic for its job in the arrangement, not for how impressive it sounds by itself.
2.“ THE CLICK IS COMING THROUGH THE HOUSE!” Few sounds will get the attention of a worship leader faster than click-click-click-click coming through the main speakers during a quiet intro.
Before blaming the console, determine where the click is entering the signal path. Start with the playback system. Many churches run tracks, click, and cues from a laptop or dedicated playback rig. Make sure the outputs are routed correctly. The click should be going only where it’ s needed— usually the musicians’ monitor or IEM mixes— not to the main left / right bus.
On a digital console, check the click channel’ s routing. Is it accidentally assigned to the mains? Did somebody copy settings from another channel? Is it feeding a subgroup or matrix that eventually reaches the PA?
If the routing looks correct but you still hear the click, consider acoustic bleed.
Headphones can leak more sound than you think. A drummer using loud headphones with the click cranked up can create enough acoustic leakage for nearby microphones— particularly drum overheads— to pick it up. The solution isn’ t always another console setting. Sometimes it’ s simply turning down
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