Can I Fix This Church's Front Of House & Stream Mix? | Mixdown Meltdown Ep 1 

RESPONDING TO THE MOST COMMON POSTED COMMENTS HERE: "Updated mix?" - You can find their latest stream here: ru-vid.compnlCuzvosMk?si=ZNOiy7DzHBezpoRf They needed a couple of weeks to get their video settings in order and I think it’s a night and day difference! I DID NOT mix this show. This was all them a few weeks after I left. All they did was run with the settings I left for them. "Why did you mirror FOH to the stream and via USB?" - Because one person cannot run video with text cues with every lyric with the songs, graphics and other visual elements for the stream, run front of house AND monitor an independently different stream mix in their headphones without sacrificing monitoring the other things that need to be monitored. I don't even run a separate stream mix for my streams. What you hear on my streams is what's going over my FOH. The only adjustable element to my stream mix is how loud it goes over the streams. The house tech was a complete novice. This is fine, and I hope he learns more about operating the board, but this setup had to be simple, and there is no way he was going to know what a matrix is or how to switch menus to adjust the matrix volume, not to mention not knowing what to hear for when adjusting a mix or how to use any of the eq controls and effects to make any adjustments that would benefit the mix. With enough practice, he absolutely can change the routing and have a more independent stream mix. He has a VU meter on OBS to monitor the stream volume so he doesn't need to constantly move over to the board or glance at the board to monitor audio levels. I had to make this as seemless as possible for them so he can concentrate primarily on video. "Did you make a backup of this scene?" - No. I advised them to make a backup on a flash drive for their records, and they did just that. "Why compress everything? You're SQUASHING the sound!" - I use the compressors to sculpt the sound of a signal. Compressors do more than just "squash" a signal. The drums for instance have a 25ms attack, which means the compressor activates 25ms AFTER it detects a signal. In plain english, that means the transient of the hit goes through the chain unaffected, then the compressor evens out the decay to give the tone of the drum a little more "umpth". The drums have between 3-4DB of gain reduction, hardly "squashing". I applied the same techniques dialing in this band that I do with every band I soundcheck, which you can find a detailed soundcheck breakdown here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jTrTTxM74bI.htmlsi=02lCbA2uREbGEb-u

Do I know anything about sound mixing? No. Did I watch the whole thing? Yes. Kudos

Chris! Thank you for coming and getting us right! We appreciate it. This is Gary btw.

I’m the pastor of this church and I am very very appreciative that you worked alongside my husband and my media team that we are getting off the ground. When I first arrived at my church, I knew I could take them to higher heights. My church trusted me and I in turn trusted my team. You provided a great service to enhance our ministry for some of our sick and shut-in members who aren’t able to come into the building. Your work is blessed and so are your hands. Hilarious introduction video, by the way, your sense of humor is my type. Thank you again ☺️ blessings today and always!

please for the love of all that's holy, do more of these types of videos

bro entry got me interested... will i fix the mix or be cast out like a heathen 😂😂😂

I'm here for this and the kitchen nightmares style vibe on the intro, I'm not too far in. Love it so far.

Sometimes all you have to run all the tech is someone who doesn't know what reverb is but is willing and available to sit back there. People like you are a blessing to come in, eq everything, and tailor things to be as foolproof as possible to set these servants up for success. ❤️🙏👏

As a producer I've always wondered how live mixes work! What a gem of a channel to stumble across!

as a contracted church sound engineer, this is the average experience of a sunday at a new venue

Fixing peoples live mix! That is a great concept and I'm all aboard!!

This was super informative! From the trouble shooting to the quick fixing of gains, eqs, compressors and so on, to explaining what you did to a layperson. Great stuff

Yup this is it. This is quality content. I’ve never seen anything like this. Algorithm brought me here. Great job man! Hope to see you do more of these.

Nice intro. I popped for the Hail Mary joke. 😂

I ready hope this snowballs and more people reach out for you to do this.

Thank you sooo much, u were a Godsend to my team & I!! ❤️ keep doing videos like these

Love this switch of content man, would love to see more types of stuff like this

Even though I do this on the daily, I still have joy watching others techniques and tips. Lovely content.

such an awesome piece of gear, heart sank when he asked what reverb was 💔

I like the "Restaurant Impossible" feel of this. I absolutely love fixing bad mixes. This was a tough one, in that there were a lot of adjustments needed. But I love the unscrambling process. It makes it so satisfying to hear the final result

The bass player layed out so much funk during that soundcheck, equally entertaining to listen to as it is fun for the drummer during the worst part of setup.

yeah this is so helpful to watch as a foh engineer just getting started, i have no idea how stuff like this isnt already up here on youtube lol this is a whole sector missing on the educational side

How is it possible to enjoy these videos so much! Thanks Chris, great job!!

“ What’s Reverb ? “ All due respect, that was funny. An Audio Engineers Dream I’m sure. We all gotta start somewhere, folks. By the way, what an amazing Church Band. Peace. 🙏

This is awesome!!! I know you mentioned helping a church with their sound but didn't know there would be a video about it.

Great video. It's soooo crucial to learn everything about whatever FOH mixer you have access to. Most small installs use weather a church, or a small venue uses a X32, Midas M32, Allen & Heath, or a Presonus. Cable spaghetti can surely lead to a disastrous situation prior to the start of an event. Glad that you were able to correct some issues and leave them feeling more confident.

This is so cool to see. I grew up as a church musician and now have been learning studio production/mixing. Live mixing has still always been such a mystery for me; y’all always seem like wizards lol. It is amazing to finally see this side of things and get to understand more of what’s going on. Love this kind of video

This is such a cool idea for a video. As A fellow audio engineer, it’s so cool to see your process when taking on something like this. Thanks for bringing us along!

I know nothing about sound mixing an engineering but I love watching content like these that show the world the unpopular types of businesses people do, it’s a breath of fresh air from the usual streaming, music video, concert, dance, prank, challenge, public interview style of content creating 🔥💥

this is so cool, glad to see u want to help others and be patient with other people who are not familiar with sound engineering. keeep it goingg

That intro was golden 😂😂

Story of my life right here. Awesome Chris!

I recently took over the sound board at this new church, and they have the behringer X32. I previously used a mackie anoglog mixer. So now I understand almost everything you are doing on this board. SWEET!

LOVED this video. Keep more coming just like this

Awesome work! Cool to see your process and workflow, even without a detailed breakdown it's helpful! Please make more!

I've always appreciated audio setups, and had no idea there was a channel that showcases fixing audio problems. I absolutely love this type of work and find it fascinating to learn, I'm so glad RU-vid recommended this to me 🙏

I've just discovered this channel and I LOVE IT

Chris your the GOAT. Thanks for your service!!!!!

i love this behind the scene audio and video stuff! thank you for sharing this

Subscribed to your channel. Going back and watching previous videos. This is so needed and necessary.

This is so incredibly interesting. Thank you for the content

I’ve been mixing for a long time in various churches but my most recent is the only place that I’ve mixed a stream. We only in the past few months started doing live music. What I’ve done to make the stream manageable for myself is mirror the mains except the drums. I removed them from LR since I don’t put them in the room. What I do is record all practices and the Sunday sound check, give it a quick listen, make a few adjustments and 🙏 it sounds good. It seems to be improving each time. When you stop learning you start dying.

This is a good concept for a whole channel

Please....more of these videos....my brother!!! (Good job 💪😉)

this is so cool, its like the best way to make audio content, legitimately such a great idea and deed to help people and show it happening in real time. GREAT JOB!!!

I love people who genuinely want to help

This is great! Been a "church musician" for years and you have no idea how much this level of support makes a difference! Wish you could come to the DMV! 😅

What a great informative video, like most have said!.. please continue, editing was great. Such a great series, admirable workflow 👏 look forward to the next! Huge respect.

to support you, I did not skip all the ads showed during watching this. (4 ads) keep the good works man. I'm learning on your video. Hope you will do more videos like this.

Excited for more of these videos!

This was a great video! Good job Chris!

wow this is a great video i did almost every single thing you did here for this local church here, even built them PCs. wish i recorded the process, i just have so much going on i have no clue when i have time to put together the video. this was like in 2022. great vid.

I absolutely loved your explaining as you work...i was able to go back in the video and observe AND learn at the same time...OUTSTANDING SIR!

Sounds good, love it.

sda in the house ... great video

Bro is doing gods work for real

And fixing this was worth it cause they sound amazing

This is the content I want! Holmes on homes of audio! Do MORE of this! Thank you

This is awesome! Great job, Chris!

That sax WAS amazing and so was the player. Very talented player.

Satisfying work

Awesome Chris, God bless you

Loved this vid bro👍. Wouldnt mind seeing more vids like this😅

Fantastic video. Loved the theme and enjoyed the content immensely.

Dude first video I’ve seen from you but I think it’s awesome that you did this for a struggling (tech struggling that is, sure God is thriving in that body) church. Would love to see more vids like this. Learned a lot from it and loved you being stoked to helped them out. You seem like a rad human being. From you’re new fan on the west coast

Absolutely love this concept. Massively entertaining and educational too. I just wish we would have been able to hear what you were hearing with you were EQing and adding compression on the board.

WOW, I've just stumbled upon this Brilliant video. Liked and Subscribed ✔

Here’s me thinking I can learn how to mix live sound by watching this video 😩 so much skill and technique! Great video!

This is the perfect recommendation for the type of content im looking for🔥 good stuff man i subbed before i made it 3 minutes into the video

Algorithm brought me here at it was right! You worked a miracle at that church! This is an example of someone NOT just making videos, but PROVING he knows his stuff!! Great work! I hope that you will be able to do more of these "transformation" videos! I wish you the best!

That is actually so cool! I kinda wanna get into audio engineering and this video is pretty cool to watch

Hi Chris. I’m in East Tennessee and I do the same exact thing that you do. I’m also a musician so I understand both sides. Thank you for what you do. I’m grateful to know that how I adjust things is almost exactly how you adjust and mix. Blessings to you my friend. Would love to chat with you more!

thank god for your work truly a blessing!!!

Now if I fully understood how gate and the compressor worked. Even just watching this, this made me see how your workflow works with something like this. We have an X32 Rack Mixer and I also needed my time figuring it out. I used an older mixer before, that lacked a lot of effects, so the x32 Rack Mixer has a lot of features I'm scared of using. Thank you for your confidence and knowledge

I love that Kitchen Nightmares style of the video. And this is a nice change in the content. Would love to see more videos like that!

This was a fantastic video!! plz do more like it

Thank you for fixing this mix FOH and Stream👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Fun style video, big fan.

Loved this! I hope you have the chance to do more of these.

bro this is me trying to describe our X32 to anyone in our congregation whenever I'm out for a Sunday lol sounds great though keep it up

need more videos like this!

great content and watching you take something that exists and making it better is a great way to teach while visually learning. I would add a before and after comparison at the end to truly hear the difference. thanks again for the videos!

i need this kinda content in my life!!

This video remember me a TV Show "Recue 911" with William Shatner Hahahaha. Nice video!

I really enjoyed this video.

I really appreciate your content thanks 👍

Uwielbiam sound check 😊💪👌

Yo this is great content! Just showed up in my feed thanks 😂 the list of churches you can go to to fix is infinite 😂😂

Awesome!

Nice! love this.

Great job fixing the mix. This just showed in my feed you have a new subscriber.

Great video and great work. You will be getting more calls as other churches view this.

Amazing work!!

Nice sound. Way to go..

I love this one!! Chris to the rescue!!

2 min in and I hate how much I love this video 🤓 I don’t even understand half of this anymore, When I ran sound and played in bands, it was all analog baby recorded to CD lol

Wow amazing, that was great work in this video, I wish I could have you in Massachusetts.

Awesome video!! 🔥🔥🔥

speaking as someone who hasno experrience in this whatssoever, this would give me a nervous breakdown. sooo many knobs, buttons, and wires. respect.

Beautifully done