Whenever this time of year rolls around, a few opportunities arise to preach again. This month presented two excellent opportunities:
- This Friday, 9/8, I’ll be opening up this year’s Inter Varsity Large Group meetings at University of Rochester with a message on “The Supremacy of Christ.” I plan to bring my MacBook along, try to record the message, and upload it here, but I’ve no idea if that will work well or not.
- September 17, I have the privilege of putting together a worship service and preaching at a local Celtic festival north of Buffalo. I’ll post the website when I get it.
Audio or not, I’ll include brief versions of each sermon in post format here.
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I assume the MacBook has an 1/8″ phono audio in? I think it does, but I can’t remember for certain. If so, it’s easy enough to take a line out of the sound board into your laptop. Just make sure you change System Preferences (under the Sound pane) to use the line in rather than the internal microphone.
I’ve used GarageBand for recording sermons, but since it’s really not meant for that sort of thing, it often hangs up after 20 minutes or so.
Instead, I’d recommend a simple (free) little application called Audio Recorder 3.0. It records directly to any number of formats, including MP3, and it has been super-reliable for me in the past.
Good luck!
Now that I went and downloaded the new version, it appears you can choose your input source right in the application window. Saves a step, cool.
Scott, thanks for the tips. I’ll check out that program.
Presently, UR IVCF is really small, so unfortunately I won’t be hooked into any sound system (actually, I don’t even use a sound system when I speak at RIT, and they have 150). Microphones bother me; I just talk loud instead. I had a lot of stage training in high school and college, and I was more often than not without a mic, so I had to learn to project my voice (which was a lot of fun to do over the top of 15 piece orchestras that were on the floor, rather than in a pit).
If you do the audio thing, try to get some accent correction going so those of us in the rest of the country can understand it.
Thanks for caring.