How Sermons are Mixed at Elevation Church
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2018
- In this comprehensive tutorial, I will walk you through my complete sermon mixing process, sharing my approach and thought process behind every step taken when I mix sermons for Elevation Church, to be used on podcasts, RUclips, and TV.
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To see my all new and completely reimagined workflow and process, and also for an even more in-depth look at my sermon or live-even post production mixing process, I have a full blown online course you can take here! classes.productiononline.com/p/post-production-mixing
Do.you have classes for.video production like editing,mixing, equipments, etc. Thank you. This is awesome and thank you
Still in 2021, this whole masterclass is a very good primer on where to start with a punchy broadcast mix. I still refer to this video, time and again since first watching this in 2019. REMEMBER folks, mixing is not SCIENCE, it's an ART. so take Ryan's recipe and make your own lip-smacking cakes! 🙏🏻
Thank you so much Sam! I appreciate you and your words so much!
Thank you, you’re the only channel that does a deep dive into this kind of mixing. Truly appreciate your time. Looking forward to future content!
You are so welcome! I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed it and got a lot out of my long-winded elaborations. More will eventually come! I appreciate your kind words and time!
Hey Ryan thank you so much for uploading this content. It really helps in knowing how to do a better job with our church broadcast and raise the quality. And also knowing what are the things we lack of. Thanks again. Looking forward to more content from your channel. Have a great day ahead!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm so happy that the information was helpful for you!
RUclips finally recommended me a useful video. Thanks man. Great work also, love the audio.
That both made me laugh and put a smile on my face. Thank you for the encouragement. I'm so glad this was helpful for you!
Bro this is EXCELLENT!!.. Y'al don't know how much your broadcast mix influenced me in improving ours! Thank you for sharing this.. I've applied a lot of what you've shown here there past 2 years now and it's all been because of your mixes! Well done!
Wow! Thank you so much for that amazing feedback! I'm so happy this was helpful!
God bless you for this knowledge, sir. You are a blessing to the kingdom
It's an honor! So happy and blessed I'm able to help how I can!
Just had a flooded baptism! Whoooah! great tut Ryan
Thank you!
Thank you so much, I've been looking for something like this for a while now!
Thank you Daniel! So glad we were able to connect and that this was helpful for you!
Thank you so much for this !!!
I just became the broadcast engineer at my church and editing the message in post has always intimidated me. (I’ve even tried my best to recreate a sound similar to Elevation)
Thanks for explaining your reasoning behind your decisions! That’s the part that’s really helpful!
Than YOU so much for your kind words! I'm so glad you found this video helpful! If you ever need any more help or have any questions, feel free to reach out! You can contact me via my website mentioned in the video description.
Thank you for creating this video bro! This really helped/ blessed me!!!!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad to hear that it helped you! Thank you for your kind words!
wow !! Saludos desde Lima - Perú.
Bro, do you know how helpful this is right now? Lol. Thanks so much for this video! May God bless you 100 fold
So happy to be of help!!
Very generous of you, thanks!
It's my pleasure! So happy to help!
This is awesome man. Thanks for taking the time to make this vid. I know from experience how time consuming it can be. I live in Charlotte so we should totally connect sometime!
So glad you enjoy it! If you're every at Elevation, come say hi!
So much great info! Subscribed. Looking forward to more content.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I definitely want to keep providing more helpful content!
You've been a big blessing my friend. Thanks for sharing your experience and your way of doing things. Made me feel honored to watch a bit of the process behind the how Elevation Church makes me feel there even when I am hundred of miles away. I've been watching this video for the couple past weeks and I feel motivated to start in this new world of mixing. (Our church is small but we just started recording from the bottom with all this quarantine stuff. I'm going to get there or somewhat close to what you've achieved.) I'm impressed and proud of your work. Thanks for blessing me through this video. God bless you and keep using you for His glory. Big hugs from the Dominican Republic.
Wow, thank you so much for your kind words. You have blessed me and your encouragement truly means a lot. If you have any more questions on your journey, feel free to contact me via my website www.RyanMonette.com
Also, if you want to go into further detail about my newly updated sermon/live event mixing process, check out my course on Production Online...
classes.productiononline.com/p/post-production-mixing
Noted! I definitely will! Big hugs!
Wow you know I just wanted to take a sneak peek at it because I gotta go to my studio, now I'm already 12 min in 😄 great content I gotta watch it full later this evening!
Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you are finding it helpful! If afterwards you still want more up-to-date and a more in-depth look on my process, check out classes.productiononline.com/p/post-production-mixing
@@RyanMonette awesome I will do that!
This is soooo good! Thank you!!
Thank YOU! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for a look into your process and your why! I'd dig an audio podcast if you did one - you have a great energy in your teaching! It'd also be sweet if you did a video on Elevation's broadcast audio for a weekend, if you're involved in that!
Hi Andy! Thank you so much for the kind words and great feedback! I appreciate your encouragement! A video on our broadcast audio is a great idea and one I've recently been thinking about. Maybe one day!
Amazing, thanks for the info!
I'm happy to help! Thank you for watching!
This sounds amazing Ryan! I've been trying to get my audio for our church live stream mix to the same quality in this video.
Glad you enjoyed this! Hopefully it's been helpful in your endeavors. I'm hoping the best for you and your live stream. Let me know if you have any questions or need any help!
@@RyanMonette How do you make sure your video and audio are synced after Protools mix?
@@robertbecton7025 It's case by case. If I'm exporting and delivering to the video team, they sync it up in Premiere, which can either be done easily by eye or using the sync feature within Premiere. When they export the video file they mute all other tracks and solo the track with my mix.
Amazing ❤️ 🙌🏾
So happy to hear you enjoyed this!
I've always noticed that the audio for Ps Furtick's sermons is incredible. Finally seeing how it's done. Amazing work. Question: does someone do a similar job live for the room mix?
I'm glad you enjoyed this. Thank you for the kind words. So currently what's "live" is actually pre-recorded in the week and both the worship and sermon are mixed in post. But when church is normal and actually live, there is an audio control room in which everything is mixed dedicated for live broadcast using a Digico (Sd9 I believe) and utilizing Waves SuperRack.
@@RyanMonette Awesome & thanks for your reply. As I said, amazing work!
@@jbambrick1 Happy tp help!
Lol the Female Dialogue preset on Pastor's C6, solid job dude!
Haha, thanks! Gotta start somewhere, right?! The female preset has good settings to handle sibilance, I used it as a starting board and tweaked from there :)
love this.
So glad you enjoy it!
I sure did pause and read your worded intro!
Thank you so much for this video! I’m a little late to the party on finding this video after months and months of trying to emulate the sermon audio of Elevation Church. This video is very informative and helpful for the eager sound techs out there like me.
Quick question sir.. what wireless microphone does Elevation Church use that allows Pastor Steven to have his microphone so far away from his mouth, yet captures his voice so clear?
I'm so glad you found this video helpful! If you're interested in an even more in-depth look at my updated process, check out my course on productiononline.com We use sennheiser wireless with a special DPA capsule made just for Pastor Steven.
Sick man!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you!!!
You're very welcome! Thank you for watching!
Awesome
Thank you for watching!
I still go back and check this out haha
So glad it's helpful for you!
Very cool, and well done video! Love the Darth Fader. Not sure if I missed it, but how fast is this turnaround? When is the audio and/or video released?
Thank you very much! I start mixing early afternoon Sunday and finish mixing usually in under 5 hours. Then I send to our video team for exporting, which takes a bit. We have a team that proof watches Sunday night to make sure there are no mistakes. Podcast and Video goes live Monday by noon.
Do you have classes for the.video.production like editing, mixing, what gear , etc. This is awesome and thank you very much. !!
Yes! You can check out my online course at classes.productiononline.com/p/post-production-mixing
Hello Ryan, Thank you for this resource. It has helped me a lot during this season of transition for most churches. Is there any way I could gain access to this template? I have access to pro tools and a waves server to help with many of the effects and plugins. Thanks for what you do!
Hi Troy, thank you for the kind words. I'm very glad to hear that this has been helpful for you in this season. If you are interested in digging deeper into my sermon mixing process, I've recently updated my workflow, and have gone into much further detail on the process with my course found on Production Online. You can find that here...
classes.productiononline.com/p/post-production-mixing
Now to answer your question about offering templates. I have two solutions for you...
1) The greatest way you can grow/learn is by re-creating. I encourage you to apply what you've learned either from this video or my course on Production Online, and re-create something specific for your needs. This in the long run will help you fully understand the "why" behind the signal flow and process, which only empowers and enables you more.
2) I do actually plan on making templates available to purchase and download on my website in the near future. Once that happens, I'll make a video and post it here to share them and walk through them.
Someone said Darth Fader is in this film. Confirmed!
:)
GENIUS!!!!!!
Thank you!!
What kind of reverb do you use?
I use Logic Pro for my church’s Facebook Livestream, but, I can’t seem to find a good reverb for my pastor.
ChromaVerb is the one I’m using, but, I’m having trouble giving him that Steven Furtick effect.
Keep watching and I'll talk about it! (around the 32 min mark)
My brother Ryan, blessing to you. ---Does Pastor Steve use DPA Microphones and if he does which one? Head set! Thank you so much. May the Lord continue to bless your ministry.
He does indeed have both a DPA capsule for his handheld and a DPA headset. As to the specific models, for his handheld capsule, I believe it's actually custom and not a mass produced model. For the headset, I unfortunately do not know which model it is. If you reach out to DPA, they might actually know.
@@RyanMonette Thank you my Ryan. Blessings
@@santaoscar Most welcome!
amazing brother ....wow ,,,,,,,Please make a video on how to mix live music like Luke Hendrickson ,,,,his mix template is a bit on the expensive side for me .
SO glad you enjoyed this and found it helpful. I hope to make more videos in the future!
How can I just get the audio from the soundboard or the speakers? I just need the audio feed for video editing.
That's a question that is unique to every church. The answer varies depending on how your church is specifically designed with that. There's no one specific answer. So the best solution is to connect with whomever is over your tech department and/or your main FOH engineer, if you have one.
Thanks a lot! What interfece are you using. And what interfaces would you recommend for 8-12 inputs max? Just for a small church.
ruclips.net/video/2x96TQUn8OI/видео.html
Honestly, like I mentioned the video, any gear/interface will work. PreSonus has great thunderbolt interfaces for an affordable price point.
Thanks for this. Please can we get a walk through of how the drums are mixed?
I personally do not mix the drums or worship for Elevation/Elevation Worship. But I'll recommend it to the crew!
@@RyanMonette thank you!!!
@@theaudioschool You're welcome!
Can you do that on any of you guys live services
I would love to however I personally do not live in Charlotte, NC anymore where the live broadcast happens. There might be something in the works in the future from the other guys still holding down the fort, but the ball is in their court on that one.
I might have missed it, but when did you clean the band? loving the video btw
When I mix the sermon, I am essentially using stems of the band from out live weekend broadcast mix. It'sa mix of just the band with no vocals. In my session I only slightly EQ and multiband compress the band stem. So glad you enjoyed this!
Great overview! Is true-peak something that comes into play for your broadcast/tv mix?
Thank you! It does indeed! When I mix for TV I have a separate session/template. When I mix for TV, I'm using the bounced stereo mix of a sermon, and my whole session adheres to the TV loudness standards (average -24 LKFS) and limited at -10 dBFS.
Whats your workflow for the TV mix? I'm assuming its just a mastering of your bounced mix in terms of compression and limiting. What plugins do you use in that process? I'm a total izotope snob and love working with Ozone and Insight.
I have a separate template. My workflow involves leveling the mixed sermon for TV standards, but also mixing a "coming up" section, a commercial (that I have mixed in a prior session before it is in my TV mix session), and a talking head moment with Pastor after the sermon. I still use all the same plugins I mentioned in this video.
How do you broadcast? Do you use a software o hardware encoder? I really appreciate your work!
I don't personally do any broadcasting, but Elevation does use hardware encoders.
are u making youre own livestream or just recording then posting on youre site?
The process explained in this video is post production. Taking the recorded multitracks and mixing it after the event. We do also have a live online broadcast (livestream) mix that is happening as well. Both happen individually. The live broadcast mix is not used for post production content.
Great Job bro. What type of Monitors you have?
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it! Focal Solo6 Be
What are you running for crowd mics?
On the front of the stage, we have a pair of Sennheiser 8060’s along with some AKG 414’s. On the sides of the stage we have a pair of Sennheiser 8070’s aimed towards the side incline seating area. We have another pair of Sennheiser shotguns at FOH, and we also now have some choir type mics hanging from the ceiling around the edges of the incline seating.
Hey brother, nice work!! What mics do you use for the audience?
Sennheiser MKH 8060, 8070, AKG 214
Ryan Monette thanks man, also what plug in bundle do you recommend getting for both live post mix as well as studio recordings.? Or is it better to get individual plugins?
@@playbackgame9596 Honestly, whatever works best for your workflow. As long as you have the basics (EQ, compression, reverbs, etc.) you should be fine. You might want to start looking at something like the Waves Gold bundle and the Izotope RX standard bundle to get you started.
Question. How much compression do you put on the pastors mic?
Start listening at 24:45 and I talk about it :)
I’m using Final Cut Pro want some compressor starting point there. Is there a pro 3s plug-in for FCP?
@@mhpreach With any plugin you should be able to use them within video editors as well, such as FCP, Premiere, etc. They just load as VST's. So you can use all these Waves plugs, Fab-Filter, etc.
Why Wouldn't vocal rider work to automate the volume?
I use vocal rider a lot. Pretty much on every VO or talking head I mix. I've tried it with sermons, but I found that when mixing someone as dynamic as this, no matter how I tweak the settings, it just sounds funky and not natural. I still want to preserve some dynamic relationships. So at the end of the day, if it does or doesn't SOUND right, then that's what matters most.
In regards to this, I do however have a new and faster process for leveling which I talk about in my updated course for Production Online, which you can watch here:
classes.productiononline.com/p/post-production-mixing
Ryan Monette Oh okay sick..Thanks!
@@ivorymars3845 Most welcome!
Hi. What framerate you guys shoot at?
During the sermon, 29.97p
@@RyanMonette thank you.
@@exclusivelynyc You're welcome!
I was shocked when I first learned that people were using canned applause for worship services. I believe it was a Bethel video that I first noticed it on. There was footage of a Bill Johnson speaking and you could also see people in the room. The people I saw in the room looked pretty bored, but the audio indicated otherwise. I figured that was something that people wouldn't admit to doing. I think I'm even more shocked to see a video where someone actually talks about doing it.
Pretty sure when I talked about it I went into detail about how the samples are only used to supplement what is already there due to lowering the volume of the audience microphones, and never placing applause where there isn’t already applause. I can't speak for Bethel's process, but for me and my approach doing this over the past 12+ years for Elevation, these moments are NEVER fabricated. Only helping support what already is there, matching the same level of energy/intensity and never more so. You can watch any Elevation sermon and you will never hear anything you do not see with the appropriate relationship. That I can promise.
I welcome further conversation if you wish to have so. My email is in the bio if you want to reach out directly. I'm happy to help.
What mics do you guys use for AR?
We experiment on occasion, but we primarily use Sennheiser MKH 8060's and 8070's
The pastor's mic needs a popper blocker in it.
What does AR mean?
Audience Response. So those are all the mics scattered throughout the auditorium that help capture the sound of the audience (claps, laughs, responses, etc.).
Ryan Monette ah perfect. Couldn’t think for what it standee for 😂
@@finnrowden3341 😉
Ryan Monette how long do you keep the massive full length recordings for?
@@finnrowden3341 I keep a copy of all the tracks used with the session forever. When we record, once we fill up a drive, we archive it and get a new drive.
Darth Fader
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