Fixing A Church's Mix That's DISTORTED & TOO LOUD | Mixdown Meltdown Episode 2 

You’re a blessing bro we had a lighting strike at my church last year and it led to a major upgrade in the system I play keys but did 4 sanctuary monitors and two ptz cams and a peavey aurora with laptop and obs Your heart for the ministry is huge I pray God continues to bless and smile on you and this ministry.

You did your best and when you cannot figure out what to do you called on someone that does. Doesn’t seem like anyone could ask for more. The fact that the equipment was there (because of you) and can be optimized in and of itself is a place many churches wish they could be at.

Quincy, you're doing a great job as a one man band! The Lord sees all! Blessings!

Respect 🫡

Quincy - you’re the man! Putting your time and money to serve your church and reach people with the gospel. And wanting to do everything with excellence, so you reached out to an expert for help. Awesome to see this collaboration.

Yes!!! I said Restaurant: Impossible, but they are exactly the same format so yeah 😂

Omg I was just about to comment that 😂😂

/yelling at mixing board holding bread to both sides/ WHAT ARE YOU? -'I'm a compression/limiter sandwich'

These vocals are RAW! Put some reverb on them, you DONKEY!

​@@chrishammillaudiolol 😂

It’s implanted in my head and that’s all I hear now.

😂

To God it sounds amazing. I just wish you could find a key and stick with it 😅

​@@benjamin.kelleyits funny but dont do that to god they are trying 😂 god bless❤ just need to practice

im like "is this looped??"

That melody has been implanted into my head as a core memory.

@@chrishammillaudio

I think they were singing in 4 different keys at the same time... 😅

​​​@@calebrabion4786they are trying just need more practice. Especially with the harmonies. They need a good arrangment and practice each part with piano. So they memorize the key and Get that down and practice with a good worship leader but their heart is in the right place. Way before trying to do it acapella. God bless them

Bro could def do with some in ears...

I have a good friend who used to mix for a small church and play bass at the same time…..he was always on point too!

I enjoyed exorcism vs baptism!

@@AidanMmusic96 Lol it got me as well 🤣

haha went straight to the comments after he said that xD

what makes this more funny is reading your comment while hearing the vocal in the background :D Oh man that was good..

@@greesy5644 I did as well when I originally wrote it 🤣

Also - I think it’s so awesome that you’re helping these churches and coming into a space you may not be super comfortable in to help. I know you’re getting content or whatever, but the candor and way you conduct yourself is so appreciated. ❤

I am blessed to serve at my church on audio. No fancy equipment compared to some churches but we do our best with what we have

I do this work at a church too, and yes, I've encountered nothing but kind people.

It's one hell of a job. Never knew until I jumped into live from studio.

I’m genuinely surprised at how good it sounded considering I went into this blind.

@@chrishammillaudiobecause you’re top tier!

@@2Nero12 heck yeah he is

Believe glyn johns did a similar setup for studio’s. I know the Beatles used a similar mic setup for Ringo Starr’s drums :)

@@chayish I FORGOT ABOUT THAT

I second that

Chris!! I would happily subscribe and even patreon for a dedicated channel to this!! I mean that, and there’s many like me out there!! Please open a seperate channel and reuoad these two videos so far… or whenever you do it… Please please please 🙏🏾 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

THIS!!

Appreciate you watching!

Yeah. Lenovo seems to be better for drivers. Rme windows drivers are supposedly the best, I'm not sure how good behringer is even with this high end mixer.

A miracle? Only god performs miracles.

​@@busterbuster1641are you being dense on purpose

@@sgtjonzoNot at all. I'm sickened by the reckless blasphemy evident here.

​@@busterbuster1641how so?

@@exhydraboy2429God our father will be thyne judge.

One instance of this happening and I’d agree with you. I’ve had EIGHT YEARS of these issues on Windows. I’ve been using Macs for about 10 years for pro audio and I’ve never once had any issues connecting my interfaces, audio not being read, etc. If this were a video about Macs not letting you customize the internal specs I’d have a “rant” about that. Thanks for watching.

Yeah I kind of realized the same thing. Been doing audio for ~15 years and Windows has been Perfect for me for all those years, be it Wavelab, Reaper, S1, never had an issue. MAC/Linux have always been an issue for me. Mac/Windows has been and always will be an ongoing debate. I've never had an issue with Windows so I stick with them.

Besides a broken VST and installing a wrong driver, I never had audio related problems with Windows...and I messed around a lot in 20 years. Our current studio PC runs perfectly on 7. If you set up Win properly and have the right drivers, it should be smooth sailing.

@@fonesrphunny7242 8 years of issues shut me off with Windows for life and I’ve built my own PCs.

Editing would take way too long if I made a VO or caption for every little thing I do. I can be a little more specific than give bullet points, but analytics show that people love hearing what I’m doing more than what I say I’m doing.

A touch of reverb here and there can really help to "glue" the sound together and make it feel more spacious and natural. Especially since most people are used to the way a typical room sounds, versus a dry, acoustic chamber.

I’m glad people are appreciating the content.

Appreciate it! Got 3 more church’s in the works in the next week.

​@@chrishammillaudio hard work earn more

USB from the mixer didn’t work no matter what routing and settings I did on the mixer. Routed it on the mixer the same way I route at my music venue and in the last episode. The difference being both my venue and the last episodes church used Mac’s.

using windows for pro audio can be good these days if your decently versed in windows fuckery. as someone who did IT and pro audio its pretty good. more flexibility for sure.@@chrishammillaudio

@@chrishammillaudio The uniformity of Mac has its perks sometimes lol

Theres the big difference though. Most church volunteers don’t have IT backgrounds. This man in the video works in IT and he had no clue why Windows was suddenly not working. Can windows do the same things? Yes, but with an extra insurance of headaches.

I second this, the stupid combi port Asus or dell laptops use, leak audio into the mic port as well..

Pipewire is the whole reason I switched to Linux. It's so straight forward for me.

PipeWire is kicking tuchus that's for sure. And on Linux basically all the interface drivers are in the upstream kernel, and connect through ALSA; not some random crap you hope the manufacturer didn't phone in. On Windows they actually do have a very stable driver infrastructure for this stuff, but when manufacturers call up or hire developers for their Windows drivers they always work around it, and make an absolute mess of things. 😂😂😂 Plus Windows is almost unusable for any long running production work, because it randomly goes off on its own unprompted to do stuff you never asked for.

Something like this. Demistify the knobs and faders ;) ru-vid.comsyEahfPYst0?si=BsdL7snUDz3anJNY

I'll take it into consideration, but polls I've posted about this and analytics show most of you dip out when I talk too much and would rather just hear. Now, making a video about EQ to explain everything, that I can absolutely do.

Totally! That’s why the text overlays are so nice in this format. Just one guy’s thoughts :) Love your content

Appreciate the feedback!

​@@chrishammillaudioI also would like to see the console's screen a bit more cos sometimes I can't see or understand what you're doing or showing when it's based on the screen.. 😅

You know what OS doesn’t need a “pro” version to do pro tasks? Macs. Windows home/pro is just one more hurdle a customer or in this case a volunteer needs to figure out. Most people just want something that can work as advertised. You shouldn’t need to be a computer whiz in order to set up a simple stream.

@@chrishammillaudio You are right, if I had a church that was starting from complete scratch and needed a computer to handle those tasks, I would absolutely recommend a Mac over anything else. My point really is just that Windows can work just fine, and in some very specific cases, could provide some advantages depending on what tasks that computer actually has to handle.

I will agree with that. It’s also considerably cheaper. Gaming wise, it’s no contest. Windows machines have their strengths.

@@chrishammillaudio Also, other things such as budget and flexibility from a hardware standpoint are important things to consider, too.

Of course! Not everyone is editing photo/video and doing audio work. If this were a business accounting channel I would probably never recommend Mac’s.

Possibly. I have used the x32 for 4 years consistently. Never once had an issue on Mac’s. Always Windows.

I’m willing to travel. Email me and we can talk.

Whatever works best for you. Mac isn’t for everyone.

Help me. Stand side by side with me to the Windows apologists 😂

@@chrishammillaudioI will take windows for everything but audio😂

@@chrishammillaudio Windows is one of those products that are better when pirated.

@@chrishammillaudio haha! i never had any issues with windows audio, but there's no gatekeeping to do. if one system plays up, out it goes. The audience doesnt care what laptop runs the show, it has to run, every time!

@@chrishammillaudioThe only reason you should choose Mac over PC or PC over Mac is because you are familiar with it and therefore more productive. Period. Someone who knows PC's back to front and inside out but has never touched a Mac is going to have a much better time with PC/Windows than a Mac. Same applies the other way around. I use both. Mac for small sessions in the studio, and a PC for large sessions with hundreds of tracks where I may be recording orchestras and choirs using more than 80 mics at a time. Macs just don't have the horsepower (yes, even with M3) to do any sort of meaningful processing in realtime on sessions of that scale. Also, you show me the price of a mac with at least 64 cores (128 threads), 16TB of SSD storage, and 128GB of RAM. Under $5K in PC land. At least $30K in Mac land, for half of it,.

Updating regularly is what caused the issues in the first place….

It’s uncanny the difference. Every time a band has computer issues when they come to the venue I work at - every single time - it’s a windows issue.

​@@chrishammillaudio Machines with a fresh windows install tend to work somewhat better, as soon as you add software like THX audio or whatever the laptop manufacturer is using to get their trash speakers sounding usable, mix in the drivers for the audio chip, for routing or other necessary features, with a sprinkle of windows updates (security or drivers) and you got what you dealt with here. I dealt with Razer's THX and whatever custom software Asus had with Realtek, both horrible, only fixed by a reformat and using drivers specifially for the chip, without manufacturers addons. And all of that was just for home use, i can't imagine having to deal with windows on a live set

I use both Mac and PC. I hate when Mac makes my equipment E-waste by disabling it with an update (firewire). Also internal audio routing in a Mac is a nightmare. I spent so much time and money on implementing AVB to learn that I can't properly route it once it is in the Mac. But that's all just what I get for not having money for industry standard things.

I used a 2011 MacBook Pro for nearly 10 years. Never once had an audio routing or hardware issue. Never formatted. Never had to fresh install Mac OS. It was bliss. I sold it for a Razer gaming laptop and within 3 months I went right back to Macs with my current 2021 M1 Max MBP. My 2011 MBP loaded DAWs and loaded the OS faster. Never going back to Windows.

FireWire is ancient. Macs force connection changes on you and that’s my only gripe. Once you adapt it works flawlessly.

There will be peace when windows audio driver issues are resolved and are as consistently reliable as Mac’s 😉

​@@chrishammillaudio you tell him ✍️

Appreciate the super thanks.

When the OS reads the board, and you route the board the same exact way you route it for the Mac, and the ATEM switcher reads the signal while the computer doesn’t read the signal from TWO routing options…. How is the concept of Windows was a buggy mess and I had to do a fuck load of maintenance this difficult to understand?

@@chrishammillaudio sounds like your client and you are just not very computer literate, which is okay but not windows fault and your speech was just misleading in my opinion

@@chrishammillaudio The simple fact that you call it a "buggy mess" and your rant in the video suggest quite clearly that you dont understand how drivers work particularly well. Get good, dont blame the system. You can prefer Macs all day long and thats fine, but dont bash an operating system because you fail to understand what is required for it to function properly.

​@@d4nr055 Windows is a buggy mess for this kind of thing though. I wouldn't want to use a windows computer for live sound without disabling automatic updates completely (which will probably require editing the registry). Then it would still have to be updated periodically because it needs to be connected to the internet. Every driver will need to be checked manually every update. Microsoft like to reenable automatic updates sometimes so that needs to be checked every update. All the unnecessary software needs to be uninstalled, and Microsoft likes to install unnecessarily software in updates. None of that sounds like fun to me. I'd much rather use a mac (or linux despite less software availablity) and bypass all the problems Microsoft creates with their product.

Worked on windows for 8 years. Ran into these issues constantly.

windows being unable to render audio accurately is 100% a windows issue, not user error.

@@humanwaveform I never had any problems... so im still saying user error.

Just because YOU haven't had problems doesn't mean it's a user error. There are literal forums on pro audio sites where people endlessly complain about Windows drivers issues not working with their gear, or a security update borderline bricks their machine. Glenn Fricker was a die hard PC/Reaper dude for years before he finally admitted Windows was not stable and switched to Mac. You literally see me take the aux cable from the board out of the computer, not reading the audio, inserting it into the ATEM switcher, that reads it. You see clips of the board running audio, but OBS not reading it, despite the board being set up exactly as how I route it on my streams at every show. Sure, it's "user error" though 🙃

@@chrishammillaudio no. Simple apple argument is: "I never had any problems like this, therefore it's a user error". It doesn't matter. I'm glad I got you as "excited" as I was, when I spoke about my problems I had with Apple products and why I switched.