it. The majority of development is about heart,
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the output of a MADI card and not even hit a
it’s not about talent.
channel on the console. It’s basically bypassing
[WM] What are some of the super geeky the internal processing in the channel and just
You have an audition, which proves that you things your guys are doing tech-wise with these tieline-ing one source to one output, which
have the talent to do it, but then we put you consoles? makes it really cool. It’s basically like having
into development to see if you have the heart
an analog split and just bypassing channel
to do it. You don’t get to the platform or to a [John] At our broadcast location I think our position without going through that process to audio system is a little more complex than even figure out if they have the heart. our video system. We have the flexibility at our That’s how we’re sending audio to our broadcast
broadcast location to patch in any one of the console, we’re doing it through tielines and
The majority of doing this is really leading from rooms, we have analog lines and digital cat 5 then for our in-ears we’re doing direct outs so
the front. If I’m training, and I’m bringing guys and cat 6 connections pretty much everywhere, that already gets channel processing. It’s pretty
along side of me and I’m showing them how to so that we can patch in what we need. Then in cool, there are a few things that we’re doing like
do this, and not to only teach people how to our rack room it looks like a studio patchbay. that because we have a Dante card, we have
perfect this area of audio or an area of being a It’s all the Bittree patchbays where we’re able a MADI card, we have AES, so we’re basically
musician, but I’m showing them how to disciple to tieline everything in. Then on top of that, the using all these different forms of audio protocol
people. I’m showing them how to meet with consoles have tons of features to be able to tie to get audio to and from different places within
people, how to lead with questions. By the audio in. We have a full digital system, meaning our system. So into video world, we’re actually
way, I’m not writing how to do this, I didn’t write that we have inputs that start out digital, then sending channels of audio out of our MADI card
the book on how to train people well, I learned it goes through our console and it comes out and into our video system which is embedding
from my leaders. My Lead Pastor Justin Daily is digital and into our amplifiers, and then from audio onto an SDI line, which is then being sent
great at this, he’s great at really leading people there into our speakers. We have Dante devices, over a stream to receiving locations. And then
well and teaches us all the time about how to like our Shure Axient wireless microphones are when it hits the other end of the stream and
disciple people, and how to raise up teams, all Dante enabled, so they patch through our they’re picking it up in another location, they’re
and how to call out leaders, and how to do this system digitally and then they hit our console disembedding that audio and they’re going
in a warm way that produces a great culture at and come out of our console with Dante as well back into a MADI card on a console on the
Action Church. going into a QSC Q-SYS system and then from other end and they’re hitting separate channels
there over to our L’Acoustics amplifiers. on consoles at our other locations, so that
So I don’t have to figure it all out, I just have to
processing at that point.
they can mix things that we’re sending from
pick up the culture that’s around me and get my We have a lot of flexibility in the way that we can team to do the same thing. I don’t really have tie audio from one place to another, and this a problem with troublemakers in our group was really important to us because we don’t THE WRAP
honestly, because if they’re a troublemaker have a monitor console and we don’t have a I think many of us are probably wishing that we
it usually shows up really early so they won’t way to send audio to our musicians on stage had someone like John Williams at our Church.
make it out of the development stage. I have through in-ear monitors or through our personal So, with that in mind we will continue to do our
other leaders around me that we call ‘coaches’ mix system without doing it through front of best to bring you insightful content on sound
that coach people through this process as well, house. It makes the most sense to do it through solutions. In the meantime I encourage you to
and they know the heart, they know the culture front of house. But I didn’t want to send them a check out the video we’ve included from one
that we are looking for, and they know the dry channel from a direct out that I was sending of Action Church’s services. Of note, watch
mindset that people need to be in to make it on to the broadcast console for instance, because how Pastor Justin Daily interacts with both the
the team. So, they’re helping me filter through then they wouldn’t have any of the processing congregation and the camera, as well as the
all that as people join our team. Ofcourse, we and all the nice stuff that makes those channels quality of the audio feed. #BetterBySunday
want to make our church a place that we can sound really good.
broadcast separately.
call home, and that anyone can call home, but
you’ve got to want it and part of wanting it is So we ended up doing a digital tieline, which
wanting to see a great culture exist within our is something that Allen & Heath offers on the
team. dLive console, which is really cool. Basically, if
you think of an analog tieline it does that digitally.
So I can tie from the input of a Dante card to
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