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CHURCH VIDEO + STREAMING HANDBOOK
BROADCAST AUDIO | An Interview with Jason Colburn
Church of the Highlands is a church located message that the pastor is giving that week. and spent a week working on that input and
in Birmingham, Alabama with 22 locations Sure, we love to focus on the music--as we worked my way backwards. I knew in my
in different cities across the state. Through are all musicians--but truly the focus is on The head the way I wanted the pastor’s mic to be
digital technology they are able to have a Word being preached. So that's where I start. heard. I knew how I wanted my crowd mics to
local worship experience and then a streamed My most important input on my console is my sound. Once I got those dialed in, I focused
message from their Senior Pastor Chris Hodges pastor’s mic. In my console show, everything is on getting out of worship into the message--
who is located at their Grants Mill Campus in based on that. How it interacts with worship, then continued working backwards until the
Birmingham. Jason Colburn is the Broadcast crowd mics, by itself. If it doesn’t sound good- beginning of the service. 
Engineer for the church and is responsible for -I don’t care how my worship set sounded. I capturing the experience from Grants Mill to the want our pastor to sound the exact same every [WM] So, you are able to record your services
other 21 locations and online.  week and give a consistent experience for our and work on your mix offline?
congregation. 
[WM] Your focus on Sundays is to capture
[Jason] Yes! This has to be the biggest and
the service and distribute it to various platforms [WM] That’s a lot of focus on one input. How most important improvement to technology
and venues. Where do you start? do you make sure that that consistency is for churches in the last 20 years. The ability to
achieved? record multitrack audio on our consoles and
[Jason Colburn] For sure. As for all church-
play it back during the week is the best way to
based audio engineers, the primary focus [Jason] There are several things I do. When I
of the Sunday experience is the sermon or first set up my console I pre-tracked a service
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