Looks like a well balanced approach to what tech a normal sized church needs, not desires. Love the fact that the system has been assembled with the prime intention of being operated by people who just need to press the appropiate button when the time arises. No need with this system to spend hours programming Ableton for tracks and lighting etc. The worship band just get up there and play with what they have. GREAT
I am impressed by their emphasis on simplicity and quality. They're not afraid to spend some serious dime where it counts, but they win in the end since they're not having to continually upgrade or fix things.
If you ever get a chance to come to the uk, you will see how almost all churches have a single camera and a couple mics, if you can, come to Cambridge, there are some really ancient buildings there. St Catharine’S college Cambridge is the chapel where I run the tech for special services. I think it would be an eye opener into church of england and more general Anglicanism. OLEM is the Catholic Church that serves most of Cambridge which has some slightly more advanced tech. At certain times in the year, Kings college chapel has some incredible tech. P.S. we have an organ, a like almost all churches in the uk.
Electrostatic discharge?! It’s so good to have some sort of idea what causes this issue! We have a campus that runs into the same issue with HDMI over Ethernet and I was so dumbfounded how it could be caused by people sitting and standing. The cables are run in the ceiling about 15 ft away from people but a group of 4 teenagers could stand up and down to make the screen blink. So weird
I have a friend that runs sound in another church and they had a similar problem. They switched from cat 5 to cat 6 cables and it seems to have cured the problem.
Awesome tour! I also run tech and lead worship at a liturgical church and it is really good to see how other churches similar to mine implement sound and media into worship services. keep it up.
Thanks for sharing this! I feel like it's rare to see the tech solutions of small to medium-sized churches, where simplicity and functionality are the focus. This is one of the first videos about church tech that I watched and thought, "okay, we could do that at our church". Most church tech seems really out of reach, financially. I also really appreciate their focus on volunteers and trying to reduce the barrier of entry for people who want to serve in production.
Overall, I really love this Tech Tour series! Thanks Jake! A magazine I used to subscribe to used to only present large, very expensive church installs. Seeing as how most churches are less than 200 members, this is a great presentation of what that size of church uses and the costs associated with it. Thanks again!
Thanks so much for this. Spot on about the transitions between sung and spoken word - for us these transitions (all those mutings and un-mutings!) are where so many of the sound issues crop up on Sunday mornings. (We're in a evangelical Church of England church; there has been a church on the site for at least 700 years; the earliest "church tech" we know of in our case was a barrel organ that they were using by 1803 - long since replaced!)
Hi Jeff - Only certain configurations of Shure’s top-of-the-line Axient systems can change frequencies of both the transmitter and the receiver "on the fly” - Not the Shure ULXD.
Loving the content, such a good Plattform to learn and be inspired by how to use tech and methods to enable worship and Tech Teams! Keep it up and be blessed! 🙌🏻
Great Channel & Great Series. I actively look forward to this series. Next time you're in NC would love to give a tech tour of our church. We are a small 160- 200 people Sunday Morning church in the foothills of the mountains that has decided to be intentional about our worship set up. I just installed a new Allen & Heath SQ5, ab168 expander, Dante card, and full Shure in-ear monitor system. Over the next 5 month's (or when God provides) we plan to trade the electric drums for an acoustic kit, and install actual stage lighting (and remove the old outdoor style spotlights currently in use). This past Sunday was the 1st use of the new SQ5 and wow, that thing is amazing!. Love the channel, keep it up!
Great to see all of the thought put into everything. The only thing I would strongly disagree with would be the use of Optoma X600 projectors. Our church uses the same projectors. And while they are advertised as 6000 lumens, they are only 1 chip DLP so when displaying anything with color on the projector, it is only displaying around 1,100 lumens
This is an amazing video. Thank you for breaking down all of the different equipment and how they all fit together. I play music with a church and this really gives us wonderful ideas for us. Thank you for putting all of this together!!!
Really enjoying these worship tech tours! My husband & I are joining a church revitalization team, and these videos have been so helpful and thought provoking! Hoping to be able to use some of these ideas moving forward in our new church.
I like that streamer deck integration, I wonder what else it can control to simplify workflow for your A/V team? Great setup, it gets my thinking gears turning!
Liturgy is beautiful, if you know how to live it ... anyway it is very good idea to implement the technologies based on it, I think it can be an even greater experience! good video! God Bless you all. Saludos de Cuba
Respectfully, i think they are mistaken about the frequency diversity and on-the-fly channel switching of the ULXD gear. In the video, Jeff said “If there is a problem with the frequency, they can switch the unit and the pack, at the same time, on the fly, to a different frequency.” I don’t believe that the Shure ULXD series supports this functionality. On-the-fly frequency hopping of a single transmitter and receiver pair is a feature of the Shure Axient ADX series gear, which is much more expensive. The closest thing that the ULXD gear can do is “Bodypack frequency diversity” where you have two body packs on a single person, one on freq A, and the other on freq B. On the other end you have two receivers, one tuned to freq A and the other on freq B. The two receivers can work together to monitor the two separate signals, and route the best one to a single audio output. You kinda-sorta have the functionality that was described in the video, but it requires two transmitters and two receivers for each audio source.
Do keep that center linearray speaker when switching to stereo. When my church switched to linearray stereo, the center disappered, and the spread is not funny. A 90 feet wide drumkit sounds ridiculous...! Our stage is wider than yours, but still consider keeping a summed mono speaker for better vocals, especially speakers/presenters/prachers. God bless.
Regarding the Churchfront narrator's statement that Shure ULXD is “pretty much” the top of the line: No! ULXD is not “pretty much” Shure’s top of the line. Axient Digital is Shure’s top of the line, and when fully-configured, can cost around $20,000 for 4 wireless microphones.
I know this is late, but what an awkward statement to make. "Pretty much" aka not 100%, and yet you say that isn't even that even though there's only a single product line above it.
Hey brother, any chance you could make a video on tv screens vs projectors? Pros and cons... I’m helping a church in Argentina update their technology and get more use of out it. And I need help on a few things... I haven’t seen much info out there on this subject. I’m sure there’s probably a rule of thumb to consider screen size according to the room, but I can’t find anything that goes straight to the point. Thanks for all your doing! It’s a huge blessing! Specially when other countries aren’t into technology much and one is trying to help them out.
Thanks for this tech tour!! Great video although, I’d love to know a little more about their lighting rig. What dimmer packs? What converter are they using to go from DMX to Ethernet? Is it on the churches wifi or on a separate LAN?
Are there any other smaller churches you have looked at that do Live Streaming and Service at the same time? Please let me know, would love to know. Great Video!
Hi Jake, thanks for the video man. I have two questions about the way they do power management, is it ok to have the x32 with the power switch always on and have an external switch controlling the power and is it possible to power on/off the Furman sequencer from an remote control? Thanks
Dacast for $250 /yr ? hmm that's cheap.. but I bet it has limited storage and bandwidth... how's that working for them? I've known Dacast for a long time.. it's like a prepaid service... or what I call pay as you go thing.. Could you explain a little bit further or ask them more in details about it Jake?.. Cause the best solution I have in mind right now and the best value I can recommend for churches looking into livestreaming is the Livestream/Vimeo Premium. It's $75 a month but you get a lot... no calculation of concurrent views, how many attendees, how long will you stream, things like that etc. The livestream/Vimeo Premium has unlimited Bandwidth, free stock footage (tons of footage) before they gave unlimited storage as well, but now I think it is up to 7 TB?.. don't quote me on that. =) So just wondering what's their take on DaCast.
I am guessing that its working for them because of the limited number of people watching the services. Like they said in the video they don't promote the livestreams and they didn't mention anything about streaming to facebook. My assumption is that they are saving a few hundred bucks a year by using Dacast, rather than paying for features and benefits they don't really need?
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Nope... he lost me when he says he peaks at 70% of what he's capable of behind the kit. Ever since we fully enclosed our drums, my playing is better, our FOH mix is better, and I can eb and flow, play harder when it needs it, and not once EVER worry about being too loud so its a huge weight lifted. To each his own though... really dig their setup.
Yeah it definitely takes much more effort for the team to dial back so hats off to them and their vision/leadership. My approach was similar to what yours sounds like. Make the drum shield as minimally visual but let the drummers be unrestricted. It works great for our team too.
@@msy003 Im with you. Our cage is 100% enclosed and I have ZERO issues with that. I looks slick, and because of our stage layout it actually works well. Im still close to the rest of the band. And bleed to the audience is minimal.
