The Worship Files

Technical difficulties are par for the course when it comes to leading worship, even more-so when it comes to leading worship at a church where we have to set up and break down the entire sound system each week.  Usually these things happen during setup or rehearsal, or even live but behind the scenes where nobody knows what is happening.

This week, however, it was live and it was obvious, albeit quite funny.  It had nothing to do with the sound system itself, but instead with a new delay pedal I just bought.  It added a really cool dynamic to the acoustic sound this week and I definitely plan on using it again, but I need to learn a few things about it first.  I had literally messed with this thing for a grand total of 15 minutes before Sunday morning and when I switched to the wrong patch in between songs, it became pretty obvious I didn’t know what I was doing.

The best part is when I leaned down to fix it and said “that was weird.”  Well, my guitar has a mic in it that picked up my voice and with the endless repeat that seemed to be on the pedal, everyone got to hear my “that was weird” over and over and over until I unplugged the pedal to turn it off.  I wanted to relive that moment and give you the same opportunity, as well as let people in on what they missed.  With no further ado, I present to you: “That was weird weird weird weird POP” by me, Jason Carroll. Listen carefully for my old man wheezing laugh.