Live Stream through a Matrix | Full Scene Setup

[Music] all right welcome back today we're gonna be talking about the matrix a setup that you can use for live stream a while back i did make a video about the routing and how to make this work really quick and that setup was just copying your your main bus right onto your matrix and then sending it out to your live stream and that was a great option when we didn't have anybody in the actual room experiencing uh the music live but we were just sending out to live stream well now a lot of us have people back in the room maybe you don't want to go the aux uh the aux bus route and you just want to use a matrix so we're going to dive into that and all of its intricacies and how i have laid mine out to do that i disclaimer i did this a couple weeks ago and i ran it in my live stream i found out something that's very critical that can't work in my environment about 10 minutes before the service and i saw i had to make some changes with all of our audio we'll talk about that at the end but let's jump into the console now and see what it looks like and how i've got mine set up and how maybe you might approach yours here we go okay so let's start off talking about the matrix scene that i built now there are two different ways to do this one is the way that i did which starts with my main mix being sent into my matrix and then i use a separate bus to add on to that the other one is just to build buses and send your buses straight into your matrix because remember a matrix is a mix of buses whether you're using buses in here on the console or your main fader which is actually considered your main bus so a lot of people don't think about the main as a bus but in fact it is a bus it's a stereo bus that's built into the console and it's taking all of your stuff to one location which happens to be your main speakers or your pa in your room so let's dive into the one that i did and then we'll talk about how how and why i'm not using it anymore so to start out with with the matrix i did come to my i did come down to my matrix layer here i created matrix one and two as a stereo pair you can see i labeled them red that's kind of my thing it always tells my my other mix engineers to stay away from it don't touch it don't change it but before we hit sends on fader what we have to do is start out with our main mix so we come up here and we select our main output we can either page over to the sends tab or just hit the view button here on sends and then we can use the first encoder knob up here and you'll see the little indicator move up and down as you do this and there's a level down here and the easiest thing to do is start with it at zero and go from there so you're sending a full copy of your main mix into your matrix now what you do want to do make sure that this is pre fader the send needs to be pre-fader how do you do that we're gonna page down here and this gives us for matrix one and two matrix three and four matrix five and six here we can change between pre post and all the various different settings i just have it set at pre-fader what that means is that i can turn my main fader up or down for my room experience but it will not change what's going into my live stream my live stream will get louder or softer we want the live stream to be controlled and consistent while we control our house here okay so now that we've got our house mix going into our live stream the next thing we want to do is build a stereo bus that we can use to augment or enhance the sound typically what we're going to get is that the vocals are going to be loud and the band is not going to be loud enough why is that because you have natural sound coming off of guitar amplifiers or drum sets same things we've talked about in other videos so we need to turn those instruments actually up in our live stream and maybe turn our vocals down so let's do that next so for me i come over to bus 9 through 16 and here you can see i have another red pair this is bus 11 and 12 and that is stream left and stream right so these are a stereo pair they're linked and what we can do now is just like any other bus we can hit sends on fader and we can start to add instruments over here into this bus so that they can be moved into our matrix and then add to our sound so you can start building this but we're not going to be able to to know how much to add unless we're actually listening to our live stream mix so we can guess over here but we're going to come back to this setup in just a second i'm going to hit sends on fader now i'm going to go down to matrix matrix first thing i'm going to do is hit solo and this will allow us to plug in some headphones into the side of the console and and go ahead and hear what mix we're building the next thing we're going to do is now that we select this and we hit sends on fader notice nothing changed that's because we're on the matrix layer and it's selected and when you hit sends on fader you can't put inputs into a matrix so we have to hit this bus on the far left over here get to the bus layer and now we can build a mix out of buses to go into our matrix all we've done is brought our our live stream bus up to zero so now we're getting full volume of whatever we send into this bus is going to go into this matrix and add on to our house mix so now that we've done that we can come back up here we will hit sends on fader we'll go back to bus 9 through 16. we'll select our bus 11 hit sends on fader and now we'll go to our instruments and so we've got a couple things going on at this point we have our headphones on we're soloing our matrix for our live stream we have this uh bus 11 and 12 already going into our matrix and now as we add instruments in we can go ahead and listen to that change that's being made in our headphones okay so at this point i've i've gone ahead and you can see i've added in this is floor tom we've got some rides some symbols because symbols are usually really loud in the room and not turned up a whole lot in my mains so i'm adding a certain amount of symbol coming in bass guitar electric guitar guitars run through a small amp on stage but we needed to turn that up to get it nice and full in our house in our stream mix even over here the pastor's mic is is turned up as well you might think that seems a little odd why do you have to turn the pastor up if he's you know full volume and sounds good in the room but in our live stream we need to keep our average level way up so uh if we pause and talk about db level right now my house mix for band time for music anything music my house mix is about 95 to 96 db and my passenger speaking is 74 on average db 74 to 75 so that's a 20 db swing from top down to bottom but if we do a 20 db swing on our live stream nobody is going to hear the message they're gonna hear all the music and no message so i do have to raise up my pastor's mic uh because he's effectively quieter in the room and so i need to bring him up in our live stream to keep that listening experience really good also if i flip over to my second page i do have some pads and some keyboards added in and whenever i get to it and have the luxury of actually adding crowd mics i will add my crown mics in there as well effects you can see also i've added some effects so with this setup i was inspired by the guys at mix u and i completely changed my effects setup and i'll go over that in a different video but for this i did have to add in some vocal reverb some drum reverb and this was band reverb that i added in just to make that that live stream experience a bit more lush i don't need a whole lot of that in my room because the room already has reverb and so this gave me an opportunity to accent that or accentuate that going into the live stream one thing i want to point out here is that this is my pc input channel right here you can see that it is muted and it's not going into this this extra bus and my challenge the reason i'm not actually able to use this entire setup is because this pc input goes into my house i'll talk about this at the end and some of my shortcomings of thoughts that i didn't figure out the solution for until 10 minutes before service which was kind of hectic but we want to be very thoughtful about which setup we use and and this is the big reason as to why i'm not going to use this matrix scene going forward so hopefully that helps you out if you're looking to run a matrix for your live stream again i am not running a matrix anymore i am back on my uh my aux bus mix and here's why if you track with me my setup has propresenter going across ndi into our live streaming computer which runs obs so audio and video go across that well the audio of those videos also is seen in the house the video goes to a projector but the audio comes into my console and goes to my main speakers well we're getting that copy coming to my live stream so what i had to do that day was turn off the ndi audio so that it only came through the sound board now here's the other catch my audio and my video for my cameras the audio is delayed 300 milliseconds so now what we would have had was a video playing and the audio coming by 300 milliseconds later which would have been really distracting and really obnoxious so i had to go turn that 300 millisecond delay off which meant that that service my cameras and audio were not quite in alignment the way i would normally have them so you need to think about all of these things in advance so the way i do it now is back with my aux bus setup where that video audio coming from pro presenter does not go through my stream it all goes across ndi all right well thanks for watching make sure to hit the subscribe button give it a thumbs up if you found value in this video and share it with your friends because there's bound to be some other people that are looking for this information and you can be the one to help them out if you've got questions or comments leave them in the 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Length: 11min 57sec (717 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021