Take Church Sound Volunteers from Amateur to Pro - James Attaway at Churchfront Live 

How to Lead Your Church Sound Team 0:00 Intro 1:00 Professionalism is Teamwork 2:31 Goal: engaging worship without distractions 3:54 Myth #1 Professionalism is all business 4:50 Myth #2 Professionalism is performance based 5:36 Myth #3 Professionalism depends on your equipment 6:38 -TECH SKILLS- 7:16 Operating Professionally with a Streamlined Setup 9:13 Operating Professionally with a Troubleshoot Plan 9:54 Operating Professionally within system limits 11:01 Operating Professionally with tech tools/equipment 11:44 Slow growth = intentional habits 12:50 -LEADERSHIP- 15:39 Common Language: defining the “feel-factor” of worship environment (lighting, sound, visuals) 17:05 Wisdom in Priorities: When your team knows what to do they will be less stressed when something goes wrong. 19:00 Clear expectations: Transitions, levels, lights, timing, tone, etc. 23:43 Clear Metrics: How do we measure success (Offensive Linemen) 25:10 Story of unclear metrics: assumptions about feelings don’t serve you well 28:47 -INTERPERSONAL SKILLS- 29:19 Teachable: Always learning, Seeking feedback, Active listening, separating identity from your role 32:35 The tech volunteer is a creative technical artist. Grow their artistry. 33:27 Choose your attitude. When things blow up keep a level head; your team is watching. 34:18 Deal with Conflict: Resolve. Don’t ignore. Deescalate when emotions rile up. Attack the problem not the person. 36:49 TAKE ACTION 44:14 How do we put this into practice?

The first problem is allowing people with no experience on the console. You wouldn't put someone that can't play music on the drums or someone that can't sing to lead worship but for some reason churches do not think the same when it comes to audio. You have to have the ear it is not all just learning the technical aspect of running the gear.

Love this guy. Commenting for the algorithm.

Wow. This is a Master Class in leadership and team building--no matter what line of work you happen to be in.

Good to have James Attaway on churchfront

This is an amazing presentation and thanks so much for providing it here for those of us who have not been fortunate enough to attend in person. As a tech leader in a small anabaptist country church it is hard to impress the idea the conflict can happen in a professional way. People feel that any criticism is personal so they refuse to either voice an issue or do it as a round about thing. "Anger buried is buried alive" really hits home.

This is the best church production video I’ve ever seen.

The more professional you get in production the more jokes get thrown around.😂

This is Incredibly usefull. Thank you so much!! God bless you!!

Thank you for this. So much wisdom.

I really enjoyed this. Great initiative. Appreciate. I'm from a church in Jamaica, its a one man team presently. These lessons will be so relevant when the team expands.

Fantastic content. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing all this insight and wisdom. I am blessed to volunteer at a Church were the Leadership sets clear expectations and the "Why" is known to everyone. We have a extremely high number of volunteers vs staff in our Worship Arts community. Thank you James and Churchfront for bringing these valuable concepts to your channel. Many viewers will benefit from this presentation. "Creative Technical Artists", I'm using that one!!

"It's all about the Bass!" He's an excellent teacher and explainer on his RU-vid channel

🔥🔥🔥. Love it

Love james!!

I needed to hear this from THIS perspective

Thank you!

This is a great lecture for live sound music mixing.

James is the best

Excellent

Hi James.. 😄👍🏻

Man that graphic was pretty novice lol. I love this, great video. A lot of great information.

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!

I get the bit about "it's too loud", as whether it's the worship team or someone in the audience, I've ran into things where I'm left asking myself, "but what's too loud?"

Do you have anyone to setup the live streaming in our church in NY

Almost every facility has a church therefore both big tunes

Thank you so much for the wonderful material, I'm wondering if it would be OK to translate/overlay this material/video to russian and post it tagging the original video. I'm not sure who exactly to contact for this

Our church has came such a long way in our tech and media. I would love to use ableton live as a daw, and send that mix from ableton to my live stream. So I can use live vocal tuning and things like that. But I don’t know how to start. I can get a feed from my SQ6 to ableton… but how do I work with the latency ect. And how do I get that sound to my livestream!?

I have a question. My church has a problem where the volume of the stream isn't high enough but when we increase it starts clipping. Could it be because of our obs audio setup or it is because of our focusrite Scarlett 2i2? And thats another question i have. We have a digital mixer so is there even any purpose to have an audio interface alongside like a scarlett 2i2?

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RIght at the start.. the answer is right there, but is being ignored so much... having the tech IS one of the distractions !! Without the spirit of God and people WANTING Jesus themselves... there is no true worship. Forget professionalism.. The best worship and i mean by that.. .having God present.... ive experienced has been without tech completely... THere is so much good stuff in this post, but there has to be a balance, or what we do in church can easily become an idol. Ive just started doing the tech in my church.. and as much as id like expertise, others dont have that vision. Im well early and setup .. i even do the chairs and a whole host of other things... but those in the worship team just care about if they can be heard or not, and the pastor tells me if its too loud or not. They dont care about the tech side, they dont have no desire to have chorus or reverb on their voice, or creating a mood... and I agree to that point because that is flesh..its sensuality... and thats the issue. Too much about sound on sunday is about creating mood... its nothing to do with everyone doing all they can to press into Jesus no matter what they are doing so he is gloried and we encounter him in a real way. I understand you dont want feedback, and you dont want things breaking... but at the end of the day.. God looks at the heart... we do our best with what we have.... serving and being all about perfection on a sunday can easily become a real problem.

If you want your volunteers to become pro, pay them.

Very dishonest they wanted my credit card information. THIS IS NOT FREE THIS IS DISHONEST

Good to have James Attaway on churchfront