live space to mixing for broadcast. But we try to are already doing this really well and ask them this for a length of time and see how that all
approach it with some very specific instructions questions. We’ve been very fortunate to have a works out. Leadership is probably the rarer
and we critique it all the time. We’re constantly decent relationship with Elevation Church out of quality than it is the skill of being able to run a
making tweaks every week to make it better the Charlotte are in North Carolina. They do this console or to know about audio. For somebody
every single week. stuff really well, and we’ve been up there a few who has leadership qualities and seems to
times to meet with their team and ask all the get along well with others but also had the
[WM] How do you approach checking those questions. They’re very gracious to share a lot technical expertise to where, even if they didn’t
mixes? of information with us about how they produce know exactly what we were looking for or how
what they produce every weekend. to achieve that immediately, that they could
[John] It’s basically a Monday session for me,
help us get there.
I start my morning that way on Mondays after [WM] As the music director, how would you we’re done with the weekend. I’ll sit down and approach doing this if you did not have your [WM] How do you approach developing
pop open Facebook, because we’re usually mixing expertise, but were responsible for the sound techs so they don’t just mix, they are
playing our services from the previous day, and vision and the outcome of all these ‘audio part of an eco-system that raises up other
I’ll watch them and take a bunch of notes and outlets’? people to step into their shoes?
the day before, and then we meet and talk [John] I don’t know how I would answer that [John] There are a few different ways that we
about it. So, the next time we have a face to to be honest, because I’ve been doing audio for do this, because I don’t just oversee the audio
face or a rehearsal I’ll sit down with them and so long, to put myself in the shoes of someone techs over here at Action Church, I actually
say, “Hey, here’s what I really loved, and here who’s not… I guess if I put myself in the shoes oversee our worship guys as well. I oversee the
are some things I think we could work on” and of the people that brought me on here at Action worship process, so anybody that plays in our
that’s how I address it on a weekly basis. I think Church, I would say I’d need to bring somebody band and on our team, I oversee that process
about what I’m hearing and think we could try on like myself (laughs). I would say if we were that happens which we call ‘development’.
this or try that to dial it in. I also like to learn from going to try and do this and be at the level that It’s actually something that Church of the
others, so I’ll ask other guys what they’re doing we would expect excellence, then we should Highlands does, and does it really well and
at their churches, and we’ll look to churches that bring in someone who has professionally done we’ve learned a lot from them and how they do
send them to whoever was running broadcast
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