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welcome back to worship Tech tour in this episode we are at Coastline Community Church in the beautiful sunshine state of Florida in this video we're going to walk you through their entire audio video lighting setup we're gonna geek out over all of it they've got a amazing Allen and Heath mixing solution they've got dnbpa they've got a Chauvet Lighting rig they've got some cool solutions for mixing for broadcast an awesome drum enclosure so we are going to cover it all in great detail in this video so let's dive in all right here with me I have Mr Brad Alden he is the worship Pastor director tell us a little bit more about the church and the space that we're in right now because this is a relatively new building right yeah it's this building I believe it opened in 2018 so we've been here going on five years and my wife and I have been creative and worship directors for three years I know you guys reached out to an integration company obviously helped you out initially it was Omni Acoustics and and later they've been acquired by another company in Texas got it and we've worked with Armando from wave and a few other people to help us kind of get to where it is today uh well one thing I definitely notice is I'm looking around the space here is there's there's no lack of acoustic treatment so you guys can see plenty of panels all around the back of the room even on the edge of the balcony there we got front of house up there so you can kind of get perspective of where the most of the tech team is at the room overall has some liveliness which is nice for you know it's still congregational worship you want it to feel like a live environment but it seems like there's there's definitely a good amount of control that you have over the Acoustics here I think it was about a year ago was the first time I visited and you just were kind of asking me what my thoughts were on the sound and kind of the mix that you guys were able to achieve in the room and my biggest tip I had was hey like the drums need some sort of isolation right because that was probably the biggest acoustical issues so it's really cool to see this drum Shield set up over here all right so tell us more about this enclosure which one did you guys choose and yeah why why you landed on this yeah we we were recommended this enclosure uh a guy named Slade Goblin makes these from Goblin enclosures this is their G4 and then this one has also a back with two separate doors and it has a fan inside and powered lighting Rigs and and uh positioning for microphones for overheads and things like that so this has been great to minimize 25 to 30 DBS sound which as you mentioned before was impossible to mix in such a shallow room I mean this story like it really is it magnetic yeah it's like man it's for it like really closes shut like this guy makes these things legit there's plenty of places to mount lights in here we'll talk more about the the drum set in a second but this is that door guys I'm talking about it's like basically seal shut and it's not like gonna accidentally come open which is important you don't want a bunch of audio like the door coming open accidentally a bunch of audio coming out and we get this like ventilation system in-ear control a little uh little Marshall camera get the sub snake for the drum inputs what is this kit this is an SJC Custom kit um Pastor Anthony our associate pastor is actually um also a drummer I met him actually playing music long before he was a pastor and he picked this kid he likes it a lot it's big enough not too big sounds really nice we use Remo drum heads we're close to the Remo company um okay custom symbols yeah dark dark shantinople ride which is that these are all but the left side crash are new uh literally in the last month light hi-hat so I'm imagining these probably just help the tone to be darker kind of washier not gonna correctly piercing correct yeah and again some of this is trial and error with the new enclosure but others who are using this kind of enclosure kind of recommended some of this and it's worked out really well so the snare we just looked it is a big black Bob um it's a funny logo that it has but you guys can look it up and then I see you guys are using Allen and Heath for all of your in-ear monitoring systems let me let me clean the dust off of that for you go ahead and just give us a rundown of your tracks yeah basically we're just running it off of uh MacBook Pro Ableton 11. we're using uh one audio was recommended but from the people at multi-tracks works really well for us as an interface is this like your one of your music director station this is a music director Mike yeah and what's this has kind of been a great tool this pb5 uh yeah up the gate yeah it's been great just to to kind of simplify things for the MD and avoid noise yeah I love that they were recently a sponsor of the channel so given uh optic another shout out here there you go you guys can see that infrared light Triggers on As you move in front of it and then it turns off so it's kind of an automatic Noise Gate solution walk us through this Keys set up here looks pretty simple this is simple this is a Nord stage three this was here when I got here um I want to get a weighted set of keys really soon this is great for sounds it's the compact 73 so I do like how small it is but yeah I actually I guess I've never encountered one of these guys in the wild yet I see you got a relay here yeah so this is controlling a device backstage that basically changes your the channel of your microphone yeah it changes the output of my vocal mic if I push this button and hold it it will my voice will speak to just whoever we've assigned it to which is the band in this case so I can be an on the Fly second MD nice so it's been great for us dude what guitar are you running right now brother I have two McPherson's I proudly play and enjoy change my life I have this one's a koa wood back and sides with a Sitka Spruce top that's pretty yeah the back's gorgeous man I'll show you yep and then if I knew you were going to get into this I would have brought the other one I made one with McPherson that is a California Redwood top and a Rosewood back and sides for like when we're playing a night of acoustic warship it's got a darker deeper richer tone so this isn't good for the budget but it is good for the ears and what's cool about these guitars is they have the cantilevered neck like a maybe like a cello would have so the tone is insane on these guitars more of the in-ear uh microphones up here again for vocalists for the most part these are all for both how many vocalists you guys usually run on typically we have six myself and my wife pretty much every week yep and then at least four other singers but also that's just an independent singer but also the keyboard player will occasionally sing or another acoustic player will sing and it's handy these these guys program your names on them so you know what mix are pulling up yeah and even within the tracks for example this is assigned to tracks push the group and you can see the synth guitar bgv you can pan them left and right and you can control each level oh okay a custom mix of the wow even the supplemental stems it's helpful so we've done that we do the vocalists the same way uh each vocalist will have their own channel you can adjust how much you want to hear of a certain person got it so really your your like lead vocals have their own you have your own channel correct but then like all the backup vocalists they can still come in here and select you know they can still find their their individual mic okay weekly volunteers will rotate and we'll just update the name who it is we also have in our MD a group so they we have a flow mic that the pastor keeps out front so if he wants to keep going on something he might talk in my ears and and the drummer and myself can hear that my talk back the the the relay you saw up front that's got a level of its own uh the talk back for the drummer so it's really helpful I've never looked this closely at the me1 set up here by Alan Heath so that's great this is a house Helix my good friend Tyler Logan who's my songwriting partner he recommended this and put some programming in it our guitar player Mark also has a helix so sometimes we're dual Helix before we continue on with the video a quick word from our sponsor the worship Ministry School accelerator program you may not know this but in addition to all the YouTube content we're creating here at churchfront we also partner with local church worship and production Ministries to help them hit their Ministry goals over the past four years we've worked personally with hundreds of worship Ministries around the globe we've helped churches navigate upgrading their worship tech building better systems to grow their team of volunteers as well as address any knowledge or skill gaps required for modern day worship Ministry 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what we are looking at okay this is a dm-64 mix rack so we got 64 inputs and 32 outputs it's kind of hard to see with the patching here okay these are the uh DB audio power amps underneath it they're the 30ds 1600 Watts times four into four ohms I see you guys have your Dante card that's correct plugged into the mix rack back here and this should be the Giga Ace here that goes to broadcast and we try to do the patching physically because uh we're going to logic and every time we change something in the i o on the board it has to be changed in logic so we found that just doing it physically here we can keep all the assignments the same this is where we do the patching for the me monitors so this is all the outputs the CAT5 outputs so there's 10 of them but we typically run more than 10 boxes and you can daisy chain from one box to another if you provide a separate power supply this is the DPA capsule with the de facto it's on a UL XD stick and uh this is uh this de facto capsule is the soft boost which gives you a little bit of high frequency boost the other one that they offer is linear which is more flat response ksm9 another DPA this is not the de facto a little bit lower line I forget what the model is on that dpa2 KSM 8 some 58s beta 58s the convenience of having everybody's in-ear pack and the same charging unit as their wireless mic makes it very easiest easy for vocalists to come back here and you get headset mics you got the ear headphones right there I love having having toolbox organization backstage here the other mics that we use are the sev7s we like those because they're hyper cardioid so they can help control stage noise Ultra HD Seville Classics toolbox if you guys are wondering these I'm proud of these I don't know why but these are hooks that they use on sailboats and they hang lines because you know in a boat everything's swinging and moving yeah so I found this to be a perfect application for cables we've got some in there oh it's a real good way a bunch more over here can't have enough of those this is the live director and I can do almost everything I can do on the surface up there right from here real handy when setting up on stage you're chasing down problems bad line bad cable um yeah this this is an awesome tool this is the Allen and Heath D live c3500 surface um this is also D live director oh cool right there what you see highlighted in purple that's what's going over to broadcast that's the mix that he's mixing over there so we're sending um front of house mix we're sending that over to there and then they can also adjust that so if you see here the front he's got front left and right not a lot right now that's the front left and right that's the house mix so he's using some of that in his mix but he's supplementing everything you add is in addition to the house mix so you're just adding you're supplementing the house mix got it and then the SQ is kind of the last layer before right and that's where the audience mics get mixed in so there's logic and that was last Sunday's recording session so this is how you guys can like train folks do virtual sound checks can do virtual sound checks um and also we record if they want to do something with it later welcome to their broadcast mix room we've got the SQ5 we were talking about and we've got Max who is the one actually operating the setup so that's the D live director software walk us through Max like what it's like on a Sunday like how you're how you're controlling the mix here for broadcast I'm getting the house mix from John so after that I'm adding anything the mix is missing because taking it one to one doesn't quite work so I'm mainly adding in Drums bass guitar a little bit of vocals and the vocals come in dry when you add them so I have to add vocal effects and then after that it's getting sent as one stereo channel to the SQ5 we've had lots of issues with transients causing clipping so I've had to add a couple of limiters and compressors here and then you get these atom audio monitors yes I'm guessing they sound right now do they sound as good as they look because they look pretty awesome yes these are venue Flex panels that they have here they also have them in their media lab and then eventually the goal Brad is filling me in is to have waves set up to be able to run waves sound grid alongside the broadcast for like vocal tuning and all the fancy plugins from waves so you guys guys may or may have not noticed that in this Tech tour there's actually not like a full-time production director here at this church yet and we actually wanted to let you guys know that by the time this video is being published that they're probably actually going to be actively searching for someone to fill this role so I don't know if you want to speak to it what type of role or person are you looking to to fill this type of role what would it entail but a production immediate lead would be great that would sound first or an excellent audio engineer someone who can set things up before they need to be set up for each Ministry make sure all the equipment Works maintenance uh just kind of that guy and the church is really growing and there's a lot of events so we really need somebody who understands broadcast front of house lighting video all that stuff all the things all all the church front things exactly hey I'm tempted to apply for the job just hearing about it but I'm not here all the time so but the Space Coast is a great place to work and to live so I'm gonna preach about that all day long and encourage people to move here especially Coastline 2 being I mean we're like a couple miles from the ocean so but it's a great place to go surfing jet skiing do all the fun things alongside of ministry serving here at a vibrant and quickly growing church here at Coastline so just reach out to Brad yeah you're not very hard to find on Instagram Brad at the coastline church or yeah or email the church or maybe look at if there might be a link for posting too so so we have Danielle Brad's better half here to walk us through walk us through the lighting system and Danielle Your Role is creative director yeah creative director here pretty much all the visuals with propresenter any slides Graphics any video video editing also lighting background motion backgrounds for Sunday any you know welcome slides stuff like that so just pretty much anything on stage that's visual cool well let's take a kind of walk through your lighting system maybe just kind of show us the different in like categories of fixtures you have so looking at the front lighting you guys can see on the truss right in front of me looks like it's made up primarily of fresnel wash lights and it produces a nice pretty even wash across the stage and then we have the band uplights drove a strike Savers and then if we just add a few different things we add you know the band wash we have certain things for when we have a baptism we have spotlights that go in certain areas because that's usually where our baptismal will be so this kind of has like this was our Memorial Day setting so as you can see all the lights are on and I can change the colors of the lights so the for example the R2 wash colors which are the lights from the very top they're red right now but you can change the intensity from like 100 down to 10 percent depending on how bright you want them what are those bars above the LED wall so those are the picks and bars and those can also be you know changed color intensity they can be made like kind of a rainbow color where each one's different um because there's so much that you can do um so for example I could change those to let's make them lavender or let's make a brighter color orange and then um I could change the intensity so they're much brighter yeah and they can move and sweep there's a bunch of extra stuff that my lighting guy can do yeah it's a lot more than what I can do but got it got it and then the ones on the side we have the Nexus panels which are on the bottom right now um and those can be put anywhere those can be put from up top on the side we have them on the edge of the stage and it's just it's just the same thing again I can change the colors and intensities so we can make those green um those can also be you know kind of like a ombre color which we do a lot you know like a fading in from green to blue so Martin lighting console doesn't look like the easy the most user friendly thing to try to approach I'm sure it's powerful what I use the most is the touch screen and that's what I like the most is just you know these are all presets that we do for each week so we preset this last week these this is a song list that we did on Sunday let's take a brief look at their LED wall we look at the back of the panels it said Square V3 that's the model of these panels 3.9 millimeter pixel pitch which of course when we're closer to the panel you can definitely see those pixels but as you get farther away and it's probably good I don't know like 30-ish feet to the front row of seats there or maybe a little bit more closer to 40 feet these pixels pretty much disappear and it does look really great so have you guys been pretty happy with the results you've been getting so far we've had great quality and very little really no problems at all and you can see it's probably almost 2GB or something like that we actually don't have the exact uh specs on on the length the the height and the width but you get the idea of me standing next to it I'm five foot ten and a half and then we did see the Nova Star processor back there so that must be what is receiving the video signal from your probably probably your Ross system correct because you're able to control this from the raw switcher goes into the Nova Star gets mapped onto this wall and voila you have LED display and then I saw you guys had some just side projectors on each side of the auditorium so welcome to their video World We are one level up from the sound booth that's uh just down the steps here so we've got Mark who's going to walk us through what you guys got going on here for video switching we'll talk about video routing and and the cameras as well what do we got here we've got the Ross Carbonite switcher and our director sits here the director actually switches as well and we have uh two live cameras two live operated cameras down there and we have a couple of POV cameras one in the drum cage one that we we move around this it's clipped next to the keyboard right now sometimes we put it on the floor looking at guitar players or at a guitar player music director so we can ready the different shots and then cut to them so we we have control of what's on on the screen okay and we can switch to Pro Presenter so during uh the sermon we will unlock this and give complete control to the propresenter operator so they're they're putting verses up there to go along with the pastor's sermon that's what's going out to the live broadcast now so we could be from a camera when they go to a verse we can catch whatever verses on the screen so during worship it's these screens function as iMac right yeah and then but during the sermon they're pretty much Pro Presenter screens yes yep so you're not imagging Pastor up there yeah and he he doesn't want that and it's dual purpose because this what we're seeing on this monitor is what's going to broadcast as well so what's what goes up on the screens is the same as going to broadcast because we don't have two separate switchers or two different different operations there definitely recommend most churches have at least like a 2me switcher for exactly this purpose and makes it so flexible what you can throw up on the screens who all uses your com system during a service so that the director has this on and it's his is live all the time everyone else is muted they can push the talk so he's talking to the engineer and then the two live cameras have the headsets on so they're listening as well they don't they don't talk back obviously unless it's really important and if they're asked a question and your camera is not on you can shake up and down for guests or sideways for no so you can make it that way as well so the the engineers mainly I are seeing the two cameras he's responsible for making sure we have space on the drives to record the service yeah the AJ key Pro is the recorder they're using there and we do have a waveform monitor um and of these these aren't necessarily calibrated monitors for color balance and exposure but this one is so while he's irising he can cut to different cameras trusted monitor here and a waveform monitor to dial things in precisely we've got JP here it did I'm grateful you reached out to me about a year ago that's how we connected I got connected with Coastline and Brad and made new friends here in Florida so so right now we're using uh slice encoder and then it protect from teradek and then it gets sent to core cloud and we can operate it basically remotely from anywhere we have a designated room for it but we can operate it anywhere um and we're sending out to three different places to reach the live stream which places um so we're on YouTube Facebook and then we have our own website an app and the remote control from core cloud is really useful core cloud is that pterodex software teradx um software Yeah so basically all you need is internet access and you can log in and you can basically run like turn everything on or turn everything off from anywhere got it all right so we are in another closet with a rack and all sorts of gear this is a Blendtec Lin tech l-y-n tech remote power controller relay so this is how you guys turn on and off your lighting fixtures stage light specifically and then here's your brains for the Ross uh Carbonite so this is the Carbonite extreme so what's in here um so this is where we basically monitor the stream Health uh we can monitor YouTube Facebook whatever that's the core Cloud okay um right there and this basically is just the whole internet infrastructure for our church lots of lots of networking I.T it's kind of like an I.T room this is the it room yeah Brad tell us about the space we're in right now so this is a really new addition to the church and it's it's a great media lab we have uh different color backgrounds we can do green screen shots we can adjust the lighting higher lower intensity different angles we did put some diffusion panels in here from venueflex also just in case we do let's say an acoustic set in here we could do that if we wanted to but all of our baptism testimonies testimonials pre-service announcements we've we taped them all here yeah it sounds like really nice and treated in here there's not too much Reverb and Echo going on a lot of churches will set up like a video room but not put any acoustic treatment up and then wonder why the audio and the video sounds so horrible good job getting it treated uh and then yeah you get the Blackmagic 6K cameras definitely does the job for a lot of creative overhead sennheisers a company called actify creative helped us with to design this video nice lab nice using an IDI switcher here for power source oh yeah oh you could turn the cameras on and off from yeah you can turn the each of the lights it's a separate power panel not often like I'm not really in the studio integration world so it's cool to see some of these Solutions Brad tell us about your recent project doing a worship night and then you guys actually recorded a song Awake the song me yeah and like that whole was that workflow like it's the first song we've released from Coastline which is a big deal for us uh we recorded everything here actify creative brought in their cameras the song uh came out beautifully we had a couple guest artists here John Wilds from Calvary Christian Center he's also with Bethel Music uh he blessed us and then another artist from London Noel Robinson from Integrity music yeah if you don't know these guys check out their music they're amazing but I was here that that night for the worship night it was awesome it was great because I got to get just like sit sit back here and just relax and enjoy it so right which is probably rare for you yeah it is yeah so they came we recorded and wake us soul of me it just came out last week it charted number four on Apple iTunes which wasn't our goal but it's just a blessing and we have a couple more songs from that night coming out soon oh awesome cool so the the team that did the the video recording they took it back and they did all the editing down and today also do the audio as well was it the same team or did you show the audio for the video was actify creative okay talented guy Tyler kerbsack and the uh audio recording itself the studio version was mixed by Jack Nellis who's from Elevation Worship oh cool and he just crushed it and you pretty much just send those guys the raw stems from the evening yeah that that song was a very interesting hybrid we recorded in Austin Texas at Tyler's Church the band we did sort of Nashville style like live band did the vocals in LA with a different team produced with a guy named John Jackson and then we did the mixing in Charlotte and my lead vocal there yeah it's crazy like how all over the place some of these projects can be with that but for the music video it was that was multi-tracked during the actual worship yep recorded it through Dante up to the system John just explained to you we brought in all the audio signals there post mixed it with actify creative and and that was the result go to coastline's accounts or go to just search awake the soul of me it's not going to be very hard to find it thanks so much Brad and the rest of the team for taking us on this tour through Coastline church and guys make sure if you're ever in the beautiful sunshine state here on the Space Coast stop by yeah it is a fun place to be on Sunday mornings thanks so much for taking time to do this it was an honor thank you yeah appreciate and guys if you found it helpful hit like share this video with your friends and I'll see you next time thank you

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Length: 27min 27sec (1647 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 15 2023