We tried one of these in rehearsal a few weeks ago, with the song ‘One Things’. The short of it was that the rehearsal was such a disaster that we scrapped it and vowed not to try it again, for several reasons:

1. We use a click track on every song we do, controlled by our drummer. He and I communicate visually on stage if I think a spontaneous change is necessary to facilitate our worship (change the tempo, add swing, adjust the feel), and the Igniter track just restricts all of that. Also, we have no way of controlling it from the drum riser, which means communicating visually over the congregation to the tech booth in the back; not exactly a distraction-free method of communicating.

2. I’m not a huge fan of background that really move. The feedback I’ve received from some of the faster-moving backgrounds, and also from my own experience, is that it causes a focus to be taken off of worship and on to the cool background. We’ve scaled back on our moving backgrounds to simple, slower moving, transient type backgrounds, and the response has been really positive.

Now, to take a stab at answering your questions:

- tech booth, unfortunately.
- there is a 2 bar click count-in before the background starts. Not enough on faster songs.
- be able to switch back to normal, non-igniter mode quickly, and turn that click off!
- in my opinion, it’s taken a good thing and made it not good anymore.
- there will always be drummers, since they just can’t help themselves in associating with musicians.