Winning Church Live Stream Mix | How is your broadcast audio quality?

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2024

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  • @siulnoredlac4951
    @siulnoredlac4951 Před 4 lety +8

    Quote of the day! “No one leaves church humming the kick drum.” Love it!!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      True tho 😂

    • @titov7823
      @titov7823 Před 4 lety

      I don’t get it tho. I mean, what does this imply? Thanks

  • @adam_churchfront
    @adam_churchfront Před 2 lety +2

    Love it James! I'm working on a broadcast template with all stock Ableton Plugins. A win I had today was fixing phase - to line up our crowd mics (placed in the middle of the room and capturing the in-house FOH mix) to line up with our broadcast mix, I had to delay the output of everything EXCEPT the crowd mics. The problem is I initially did this to the groups (vocal group, drum group, etc) instead of at the channel level - which means my drum smash, delay, and reverbs were 25ms BEFORE the dry signal getting sent to the master. *facepalm* There's always stuff to learn!

  • @scottbrown7672
    @scottbrown7672 Před rokem

    We’re blessed to have you for guidance. Your videos are always helpful. Thanks for all you do. 🙏❤️

  • @EqDior
    @EqDior Před 2 lety +2

    This video is so spot on. Thanks James for the awesome content!

  • @donbasta2475
    @donbasta2475 Před 3 lety

    We're really in our infancy. We have a direct feed from our PA which includes our Piano/Organ and choir. We video from the rear of church in our loft and have a wireless 5ghz audio feed which goes into our 4 channel mixer so I can control the volume. Planning to add 1 audience mic this weekend for testing and hopefully that should increase our audio quality. I say we but it's just me running the equipment. I'm a 40 year IT support guy who got a call from our pastor about broadcasting daily and weekend masses. Talk about baptism by fire, WOW! Thanks for the info as I talk my next baby step for better audio.

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      Grace grace to you as you got thrown in the deep end! Let me know if you need more explanations... my email is on my website.. attawayaudio.com

  • @johnnysilva2994
    @johnnysilva2994 Před 4 lety +1

    here in brazil peolple on the other side of the screen say that the sound is awesome, so, i guess i am doing a pretty good job. God bless you!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      Amazing! Love that you've got satisfied "customers" 😁

  • @jasonengle6835
    @jasonengle6835 Před 4 lety +2

    I think we are close to Level 3. I recently noticed what you described for L4. It sounded great when I mixed it in my headphone, but later I played it on my truck’s stereo and all I could hear was the vocals. I was like, “How did I miss that?”

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah headphones can easily trick you. Thanks for commenting Jason!

    • @jasonengle6835
      @jasonengle6835 Před 4 lety

      Attaway Audio , Love your videos. They have been super helpful.

    • @MTravisVolker
      @MTravisVolker Před 2 lety

      #same

  • @chocolate6405
    @chocolate6405 Před 2 lety

    God Bless!

  • @Jimmy-qc8hk
    @Jimmy-qc8hk Před 4 lety +5

    Amazing, a lot hit home haha, keep up the great content mate.

  • @obedasare1564
    @obedasare1564 Před 2 lety

    My church uses the Allen and Heath GL2400 32 channels for FOH and Behringer Flow8 for livestream. Live stream sound is on level 2. Thinking of moving a step higher with DAW, still researching though. 😅
    Thanks for the encouragement at the beginning of the video 😁

  • @ThePlagueGameing
    @ThePlagueGameing Před 2 lety

    Great ideas and comments!. We started streaming when Covid came on the scene. Initially, we could go live with it but a couple of months later, when we had to close our doors, we recorded both the music and the message on a Saturday, tweeked it a little and then put it on the website. The overall quality was far superior to live streaming. I have to confess we purchased items in a hurry. We use the sling product for the stream. My expertise is audio so I'm not really qualified to say whether or not the Sling is the best way to go. The current set up is using an output from our SQ 7, to an analog compressor (which is my preference), to MixBuss, to the stream. No edits, real time broadcast.
    I really don't like mixing with a mouse, and the other three volunteers don't either, so we're looking to get the Soft Tube interface. Lots more could be said but for now I'm open for comments, suggestions, criticism, to make a more professional broadcast. Thanks!. 😎

  • @sageAgainstTheMachine

    I think the mix is good my prob is when I listen to the stream it's really low . Need to experiment with some of the techniques you mentioned to get the over all love stream mix louder . Im not a pro but i mix one Sunday for our Spanish church using an analog Mackie and the next Sunday (English main church, yes 2 separate services that run at the same time so when I'm not in one the mix suffers in the other) use a qsc touch mix which I like very much ... Thinking about selling one of my limbs two buy a second qsc for consistency..... Lol

  • @chab1937
    @chab1937 Před 3 lety +1

    I know this is from a few months back, but ugh the stream is my enemy. This is helpful!

  • @paulieataboy
    @paulieataboy Před 2 lety

    James, thank you for your videos! They are so helpful and I’m using what I’ve learned to make our broadcast mix better!! Thank you!!

  • @prestonpinkepank8609
    @prestonpinkepank8609 Před 4 lety +1

    I'm doing all the things in 5 but I don't feel like it sounds like a Level 5. Still need some work with the band to help get them to a 5. Love your stuff James! Every video helps me improves some how. There are great nuggets in every video!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      Baby steps my friend! You're a great engineer (if y'all don't know, I know Preston IRL) and you'll get there... as long as your band does 😂

  • @timsmith3689
    @timsmith3689 Před 4 lety

    Thanks again James, great content. If I can add my own thoughts in these Covid times, a winning stream mix to me is also about meeting your congregational needs. When dealing with people finding themselves in a environment of isolation, this starts with giving them a degree of comfortably familiarity. Even though it's out of the sound tech's influence, song selection is paramount to whether people at home engage with the stream or not. Give them something they can relate to in the context of that local particular church. As you point out with levels of winning, I don't think perfection is necessarily the aim (such as level 5 adding in kick, snare etc) but mechanisms that add in familiarity (such as crowd mics, assuming you're allowed a congregation where you live!) along with appropriate compression, is the win. Alas, nobody is going to ever come up a congratulate you on your online compression technique but they'll notice it when it's missing!
    And for the record, we have got one drummer who actually goes around humming his kick pattern... He's committed. :-)

  • @richardlatham3771
    @richardlatham3771 Před rokem

    Hi James, I live in Queensland Australia. we do our stream live so it's like mixing front of house but id call it front of TV. hahaha. Anyways it's super fun to do. I noticed you spoke about adding extra drums in. is that for a stream that is not going live as I'm struggling to get my head around doing drums to match the drummer while he is playing. we use a Yamaha CL7 desk for our broadcast. I would love to run into a DAW like Logic to add a mastering plugin or some extra pieces just to finish the mix. what are your thoughts on live broadcast into a DAW before going out to the internet and what sort of plugins would you suggest

  • @sven179
    @sven179 Před 4 lety +1

    Livestreaming at our church was a big magnifying glass experience for me, and not in a good way. I'm definitely in the category of moving from 2 to 3. Your channel has been a great help in getting me going on that journey; for that, I want to thank you.
    Right now I'm mostly twiddling with trying to get the volume of the vocals just right on the livestream. For at our church, we don't have the manpower to do a separate mix for the livestream. So instead we've configured a separate (stereo) bus with post-fader sends from all channels, with the sends from the band turned lower and those from speaking mics turned higher (by a certain amount we've nailed by now ^_^). The idea is to make a default setting so that when the dynamics are good in the room, they're also good online. It's a trial and error phase right now, but I hope to have something done in the near future.
    Also, thank you for your words about comparing yourself to others. In preparation for a service I now tend to listen to recordings of the songs by the artists, to give me an idea of what a professional has done with the mix. When I later compare that to the result I got on Sunday morning, it feels rather discouraging. So thank you for your encouraging words! Your words especially fit since I do notice an improvement over the past few months, and that's the important part. Now it's my job to keep going, and pray that God will keep blessing my efforts with an improvement in quality. Thanks again!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety

      You're welcome! Thanks for going on the journey toward greatness in audio at your church!

  • @danielfmyers
    @danielfmyers Před 4 lety +1

    Reminder set 👍

  • @Josh-lm7qq
    @Josh-lm7qq Před 4 lety +3

    avoid the sound tech solo and nobody goes home humming the kick drum... I felt that

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      Words to live by 👊🏻😁🐱‍👤

    • @titov7823
      @titov7823 Před 4 lety +1

      Someone please explain this to me.

  • @haroldLvaught
    @haroldLvaught Před 11 měsíci

    thank you

  • @andrewdevasir
    @andrewdevasir Před 2 lety

    Translate!!! Using group outs for broadcast mix doesn't really do the trick for me on analog mixers. The vocals are too out there than the instruments and my aux outs are maxed out for monitors. Front of house mix is great, the headphone mix is decent but the broadcast one is just ok. I know the digital mixers are better for this, but the British eqs on the analog mixers are just better. Or should I just go for an external EQ for the broadcast mix?

  • @joshwhalan5255
    @joshwhalan5255 Před 2 lety

    Dude. Rock solid advice. Nice one!

  • @matthewgale1458
    @matthewgale1458 Před 4 lety +1

    Translate! After a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and crying in the corner, I think it’s safe to say our “broadcast”/ post edit uploads are a solid 3. I think for us to move up the list will require us to upgrade our vocal and drum mics first for better quality.

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      A great mic on a good sounding source is always a good thing. What are you running now?

    • @matthewgale1458
      @matthewgale1458 Před 4 lety +1

      Attaway Audio right now we are running 4 VocoPro mics and 1 Shure PGX4. We had mics go out when we didn’t have the budget to go for a better quality unit.

  • @MiltonTucker
    @MiltonTucker Před 4 lety

    Our live stream audio quality is somewhere between smoke signals, and AM radio at the moment. I knew our live stream audio wasn't great, but didn't realize it was horrendous until I missed church Sunday morning, and watched it on line. You could only hear the cymbals from the drummer, the lead singer was distorted, and there was no proof that the alto or soprano had their mics turned on. The only positive thing I can say about our live stream, was the pastors audio was acceptable. Our A/V team is struggling at the moment, as we are new to live streaming, and just transitioned from an analog to a digital mixer. I spent the rest of the day Sunday, and today scouring CZcams for useful information on improving our live stream. I also did the unthinkable, and read the 157 page manual on the new mixer (gasp). I have a lot of ideas, on how to improve our live stream audio, but it remains to be seen how well those ideas are accepted coming from the newest member of the A/V team.

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      Sounds like you've got an uphill battle, learning a new delivery format and a new console. Set up up virtual sound check and practice practice practice. You'll get there. And when you're getting great results, and you stay humble, people will respect your opinion, whether you're the new guy or not.

  • @MichaelJohnson-ev9zr
    @MichaelJohnson-ev9zr Před 2 lety

    I'm streaming with good volume, but the vocals are a little in front of the music being played through a computer and I have what sounds like pink noise coming through while streaming on facebook live. I'm using the X32 as my audio interface

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 2 lety

      Hmm. Not sure what the pink noise could be. Have you tried pulling your vocals back a little bit? If you're doing it post-fader, just pull those sends back a 1-2 db.

  • @MTravisVolker
    @MTravisVolker Před 2 lety

    Singing my life with his words 🤣😂🤣 ❤️️🙌🙏📖

  • @rvarnam
    @rvarnam Před 3 lety

    Really helpful, thanks!

  • @user-ye8hq3kq1n
    @user-ye8hq3kq1n Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks.good job!

  • @joeguammusic
    @joeguammusic Před 3 lety

    Such a great video.

  • @carljoeylosala1711
    @carljoeylosala1711 Před 3 lety

    Hi. Thanks this is very informative. Do you have any video on how to connect the in house mixer to a laptop or PC for DAW and to the livestream console.

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      Yup! Right here czcams.com/video/yvjU2GtsuCg/video.html

  • @cab.studio
    @cab.studio Před 4 lety

    I would love some videos and content about managing your layers up through a mix. We use a DAW for our stream mix, and I don't see a lot of information about layering levels of compression, limiters, eq on busses/aux and then doing those same things on the mix buss. There are many volunteers in churches around me that are just musicians who understand technology enough to help their church get online.
    With your experience, I think you have a good opportunity to create content and points/opinions on things like why it's helpful to group guitars, or to have a compressor on the drum kit or individual channels or both! There are many videos demonstrating the process, but not much out there about a "talkthrough" on how they contribute to the goal of a live stream mix. mostly because live streaming music in church is relatively new to many of us.
    Stuff I haven't been able to find good answers (in terms of mixing for live stream) that I am confident you could easily teach:
    - options to group instruments in an aux/bus and what (if any) plugins to apply
    - compression layers throughout a mix (ex. snare -> drum bus -> band bus? -> sub mix?)
    - balancing the EQ vs the volume of a reverb for vocals
    - effective use of limiters for live mix
    - keeping the drums alive without overpowering the mix or being hidden with the other instruments
    - general tips about translating your mix over devices
    Love your content, you are helping elevate our church's online presence. thank you!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      Wow, what a thoughtful comment Miguel! Thanks! I actually cover all of those topics in my Worship Sound Wisdom: Broadcast Mixing course. Registration is closed as of right now, but should open again in September. And you did see this video, right? czcams.com/video/fcZZzPRC-Tw/video.html

    • @cab.studio
      @cab.studio Před 4 lety

      Attaway Audio indeed! I watch many of your videos regularly. I’ll keep an eye out for September, I have a baby due so I’ll have the free time! I’d love to chat more if you are ever interested!
      Keep up the knowledge!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      @@cab.studio Congrats on the new addition! But don't forget that your "free time" might be sleep deprived 😒 Feel free to reach out by email - it's on my website

  • @willrobinson6866
    @willrobinson6866 Před 4 lety

    Translate!
    Love your content! Keep it up!

  • @josephlaberge1422
    @josephlaberge1422 Před 4 lety

    Translate!
    Thanks you, James!

    • @josephlaberge1422
      @josephlaberge1422 Před 4 lety

      I sent an email your way as well - so grateful for your help and insights during this really challenging season. The pursuit of a quality online product has been an upside to 2020 for sure!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety

      You bet!

  • @ajchelliah
    @ajchelliah Před 4 lety

    YES!!!

  • @PBFClive
    @PBFClive Před 3 lety

    Man great video I just wish I could understand it, I am just a piano player LOL. With that said I am also in charge of all of media I when it was just he preaching on our live stream I was doing ok but now that we are streaming the whole service man I am lost! Can I just fly you in for a day to work on our sound??? WE NEED HELP!! Looks like we have the same board!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      You can do it! But if you want some on-the-ground help, you can email me.. james ....... at........ attawayaudio.com minus the ridiculous amount of dots

  • @ItzTooSik
    @ItzTooSik Před 3 lety

    Thank you so much for the tips.
    I currently mix in logic pro for my church lifestream. I know you mentioned using samples. I have used samples in the past, but, I seem to only be able to use them when editing a recording (and not when going live).
    Any advice ?

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      You have to compensate for the delay that the trigger/sample plugin causes by delaying the OTHER plugins while in record/input mode. So however much delay the trigger/drumagog plugin causes, delay everything else by that amount.

    • @ItzTooSik
      @ItzTooSik Před 3 lety

      @@AttawayAudio Thank you for responding. I hear what you say.
      I’m not sure if you have ever tried it with Logic Pro but what I mean is that when I select what input I want Logic to receive from the board I select the snare channel from the board (channel 17, for example). After that, Logic receives the snare signal to Logic’s channel 17. When I use a snare sample, it must be inserted on an additional channel (whose input can’t be 17; it is labeled something like “drum machine trigger”). That channel gets triggered by some MIDI notes that I created based off my snare (channel 17) recorded waveform using flex pitch.
      In other words, the way I know to use it, I must first create a recording, flex pitch the waveform and replace those triggered MIDI notes with the drum replacement feature of Logic. I don’t know how to trigger drum samples prior to recording, especially if it’s a live church service.

  • @siulnoredlac4951
    @siulnoredlac4951 Před 4 lety +1

    Translate!! 🙌🏻

  • @stanyoung4974
    @stanyoung4974 Před 3 lety

    My drum overhead mic picks up too much ride cymbal, and I have not found a good EQ setting for cymbals in overhead mic. Ideas ?

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety +1

      1) move the mic further from the ride and closer to the crash
      2) tell the drummer to take a xanax and stop bashing the cymbals so much...
      (disclaimer: this comment does not promote the use of pharmaceutical drugs apart from a doctor's supervision)

  • @EEngineer25
    @EEngineer25 Před 3 lety

    Translate! May God bless you more bro. I have a question, is the link still available? I check my email and not receiving anything yet. I hope you may send it to me and it will be a great help to our church. Thank you.

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      Did you ever get that pdf document? If you email me I can send it to you

  • @jg480
    @jg480 Před 2 lety

    Great video! I'm definitely a rookie when it comes to mixing, and the biggest issue I'm having on the live stream is the Bass guitar. It sounds great in person, but on the stream, I'm just hearing duck farts haha. Any tips for a beginner? Thanks for your videos!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 2 lety +1

      boost 200hz wide... the stream doesn't need to "feel" the bass... just get tricked into thinking they feel the bass

    • @jg480
      @jg480 Před 2 lety

      @@AttawayAudio Thanks! That worked! For ours, I boosted at about 200hz at 4.75dB and .7 Q, and that got rid of all duck farts haha

  • @erikquarberg
    @erikquarberg Před 3 lety

    Level 4 I would say.

  • @msd53184
    @msd53184 Před 4 lety

    Hey Attaway! I too have the SSL L200. How are you running your broadcast mix? If your up for it I also have some other questions regarding the board. Thanks

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      Love to chat Michael! Shoot me an email, it's on my website

  • @michaeldixon1545
    @michaeldixon1545 Před 3 lety

    Hey, my name is Mike and i"m using OBS for my live stream. So when i add a countdown timer and it"s counting down like it should before i go live it is fine. Now when my live stream is over and i come back the next week to do another live stream, i notice the countdown timer will not start counting down unless i delete it and set it up again. Can you help me with this issue? I don"t think i should have to set it back up after every live stream. Thanks!

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 3 lety

      I'm not an OBS grand master ninja, so unfortunately I can't be of much assistance. If it was me, I'd make the countdown a video and then have it disappear when the video is over (there's a checkbox in the properties for that). Then you just have to hit play on that scene on time.

  • @ricardoflores3123
    @ricardoflores3123 Před 4 lety

    Hey man cooooool godos

  • @freemandiaz5123
    @freemandiaz5123 Před 4 lety

    Making sense! Translate!

  • @kennethwilliams2369
    @kennethwilliams2369 Před 4 lety

    Can I send you a link to listen to my church live stream and get your opinion on how to improve?

  • @itownmusicians
    @itownmusicians Před 4 lety

    I really like your videos, but I think if you show these things hands on on your mixers, it’d be much better

  • @pindopurba
    @pindopurba Před 4 lety

    I just saw the graph and click

    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety

      I'm more drawn in by the upright bass 🤣

  • @jdanielo64
    @jdanielo64 Před 3 lety

    I need to learn how to translate!

  • @noahpedraza2659
    @noahpedraza2659 Před 3 lety

    Great content from which I have greatly benefited, but I try to stay away from thumbnails with over exaggerated facial expressions, it’s an old practice that should have already disappeared. It just doesn’t look serious/professional level.

  • @scottbrown7672
    @scottbrown7672 Před rokem

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    @EqDior Před 2 lety

    Translate!!!!!!

  • @codymichels5360
    @codymichels5360 Před rokem

    Hey man, i’ve been mixing church audio for about 5 years now around town, and i’ve landed a gig i love. Any way to contact you for a zoom or microsoft teams for some questions i may have? Even a phone call would be awesome. If you have an email, i’d love to reach you there as well. thanks!

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    • @AttawayAudio
      @AttawayAudio  Před 4 lety +1

      💯 good hearing from you Xavier!

    • @xbt34
      @xbt34 Před 4 lety

      Attaway Audio always!