1. Old school musicians and bass players will wake up and smell the solder and abandon wedge monitors in favor of in-ears, Finally.
2. Many churches will see that reaching out to the people in their community means more than just the baby boomers. As a result, the music and mixes will change to meet the younger generations musical tastes. Goodbye Barry Manilow, hello Muse & Eminem.
3. The industry will finally agree with me that while line-array spears are very directional for system builds, they sound harsh & unnatural compared with point source speakers. Eh, a guy can dream yeah? (by the way, I've heard a lot of line array systems: EAW, JBL, L-Acoustics, d&b, D.A.S.… they ALL sound harsh. I feel self-conscious that I'm listening through speakers that have been processed and tuned. Speakers should be acoustically invisible, fooling you into thinking you're only listening to the band.)
4. Yamaha will go one step further than the control software, and develop a revolutionary kind of digital mixing console that is a tablet computer with rotary encoders and a few faders built in so you can sit in the venue and mix to what the audience is hearing, wirelessly sending data to the DSP core. Say good-bye to sound booths, and hello to reserved seating in the house.
5. The automotive audio segment of the audio industry will link the internet to your car speakers in a way so that you can stream live web-services to your car's entertainment system, so you can now check your mix on car speakers. :)
6. As the quality of equipment and media gets better the delineating line between live sound and studio/broadcast equipment will get blurry. Digidesign has made great strides with being able to strap Sony Oxford, Tube Tech, Neve & API emulations on the channel's insert points, just to name a few, on the VENUE system.
7. The proliferation of web services will force churches to rethink their web strategy as so many churches are now streaming live or delayed broadcast content to web congregants. I'm also predicting that this will lower the percentage of churches who are thinking of doing multiple campuses in favor of the option that doesn't require as much sweat equity and start-up capital investment.
8. Shure will slowly phase out their classic SM57 & SM58's in favor of the beta versions and try to push people to demo and purchase their newer technology mics by introducing a cheaper "younger-brother" to the KSM9, priced around $399.
9. Someone will create a business that makes money by producing broadcast mixes for churches using ISDN at remote locations like some recording studios do with tools like Source Connect. Or maybe I'll do this...
10. Someone will invent a volume-based automation system much the same way compressors work. When signal overshoots the threshold in a channel, the fader slowly lowers, then returns to it's original position unless your finger is actually on the fader. This will make for a less compressed, and more transparent sounding mix. I should do this one too, and while I'm at it I'll add LEDs to the translucent faders so that when the channel clips the fader glows red.
Got any predictions you want to add, leave a comment and if I really like it I'll update this post with your ideas... Happy New Year.
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2. Many churches will see that reaching out to the people in their community means more than just the baby boomers. As a result, the music and mixes will change to meet the younger generations musical tastes. Goodbye Barry Manilow, hello Muse & Eminem.
3. The industry will finally agree with me that while line-array spears are very directional for system builds, they sound harsh & unnatural compared with point source speakers. Eh, a guy can dream yeah? (by the way, I've heard a lot of line array systems: EAW, JBL, L-Acoustics, d&b, D.A.S.… they ALL sound harsh. I feel self-conscious that I'm listening through speakers that have been processed and tuned. Speakers should be acoustically invisible, fooling you into thinking you're only listening to the band.)
4. Yamaha will go one step further than the control software, and develop a revolutionary kind of digital mixing console that is a tablet computer with rotary encoders and a few faders built in so you can sit in the venue and mix to what the audience is hearing, wirelessly sending data to the DSP core. Say good-bye to sound booths, and hello to reserved seating in the house.
5. The automotive audio segment of the audio industry will link the internet to your car speakers in a way so that you can stream live web-services to your car's entertainment system, so you can now check your mix on car speakers. :)
6. As the quality of equipment and media gets better the delineating line between live sound and studio/broadcast equipment will get blurry. Digidesign has made great strides with being able to strap Sony Oxford, Tube Tech, Neve & API emulations on the channel's insert points, just to name a few, on the VENUE system.
7. The proliferation of web services will force churches to rethink their web strategy as so many churches are now streaming live or delayed broadcast content to web congregants. I'm also predicting that this will lower the percentage of churches who are thinking of doing multiple campuses in favor of the option that doesn't require as much sweat equity and start-up capital investment.
8. Shure will slowly phase out their classic SM57 & SM58's in favor of the beta versions and try to push people to demo and purchase their newer technology mics by introducing a cheaper "younger-brother" to the KSM9, priced around $399.
9. Someone will create a business that makes money by producing broadcast mixes for churches using ISDN at remote locations like some recording studios do with tools like Source Connect. Or maybe I'll do this...
10. Someone will invent a volume-based automation system much the same way compressors work. When signal overshoots the threshold in a channel, the fader slowly lowers, then returns to it's original position unless your finger is actually on the fader. This will make for a less compressed, and more transparent sounding mix. I should do this one too, and while I'm at it I'll add LEDs to the translucent faders so that when the channel clips the fader glows red.
Got any predictions you want to add, leave a comment and if I really like it I'll update this post with your ideas... Happy New Year.
