been volunteering several years, can totally This is one of the easier platforms for volunteers that has been creating across-the-board
slam all the disciplines, and have been raised to step in and be successful earlier than some procedures that blend collaboration with good,
up in the leadership and coaching thing. We’ve of the others. Another part of our decision was intentional communication and training that
got to develop them! the value of being able to step up to my front helps everyone to know both what our bar
of house counsel and be able to talk any of is and how to get to that bar. If everyone at
[WM] With your focus on making it easy for the other technical directors from any of the every campus is standing in front of the same
the volunteers to be successful, tell me about other campuses and they’re standing in front desk, we can have those conversations and
your gear choices. of practically the exact same counsel operating accomplish that. For example, when we teach
on the exact same software. the college students, we turn off all the plug
[Rick] In lighting, we really like timeline editing
ins, give them a four-band parametric EQ, and
approach. That’s why all our campuses use Other than the numbers of faders, we’ll be on teach them to send subwoofers on an auxiliary
the Vista platform, which is what I inherited the same thing. So if you can run the dLive in send kind of like a fifth band of EQ. We want
here. MA or AVO, any of those can be set up the student auditorium, you can run the one our students to be able to go to any venue
to where the volunteers can be successful in in the Hub or the studio, or the auditorium, or and produce a consistent sound. So from our
lighting. at any of the other campuses. You can argue student soundboards to mobile campuses to
about which board out there sounds the best, permanent installs, it will be Allen and Heath
Regarding audio, we made a tough decision but giving up a minimal percentage of overall dLive boards.
to move away from the Digidesign Venue desk sound quality brings us some other massive system because of how the product is being wins to help us be extremely successful.
supported and the factor of having to rely upon
[WM] What’s one of the most important
technical skills for someone running the front
volunteers to manage a bunch of plug-ins to Whether your church has 65 or 6,500 sound really good. Even after considering the attendees, your volunteer sound engineers face incredible sound of the DiGiCo SD line, we bringing consistency to the sound. Considering [Rick]: Signal flow logic and understanding
decided to move into Allen and Heath’s across room acoustics, HVAC noise, background frequency information. They have to be able to
most of our spaces. I like their latest software noise, doors banging, can the less experienced trouble shoot and also adjust EQ quickly. Let’s
and that they run at 96k. They’re offering volunteer learn to get a similar sound to the face it. Five minutes before a service you’re
important features like an individual multiband volunteer with lots of touring experience with going have some piece of gear go down that
compressor built into the insert of every input. all the plug ins and tweaks? Our answer to you have to fix or work around, or you’re going
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