Chris: *focusing on the mixer* The Children running around: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Bad cable management only triggers me when it's worse than mine lol. I try to keep our stages clean, but it's an uphill fight that often ends in me hanging my head in shame.
Lol relatable. Same it only bugs me if it's visible or careless. If it's a big cord spaghetti because that's the only place where it makes sense to be like that, (like behind the wall near the drumkit in this situation since it's totally hidden) doesn't bug me at all.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 it bothers me from a logistical perspective. Cable spaghetti adds just a little extra frustration to teardown later, and I wish I had more willpower when setting up to deal with it properly. Doesn't bother me during a show though.
Kudos to you, brother! You handled the cable situation pretty well. I've been doing sound engineering for about two years now, and when I see this kind of cable management, I just unplug everything and start from scratch. I've been learning a lot from you, brother. Thank you for the video.
I hate when other people are playing during a soundcheck. Like come on wait your turn and be respectful to your time. I understand you are getting just levels but man it bugs me lol great stuff man. I will keep watching every video you put out. Love the content bro🤘🏻
I think they were just jamming out too much and lost in the music they were playing. When the whole band was sound checking it took chris like 5 times to get them to stop they were having so much fun playing lol.:P
Absolutely love this series, for someone who isn’t an audio engineer/ official sound guy it’s definitely helping me out a lot with learning my way with getting a good mix behind the board, having good cable management & having a good sound for a service
I literally learned how to run sound from this series. I’m a lighting designer, but wanted to get into sound. I ran my first sound show a few months ago.
"Just be kind and good things will happen." I'm not religious either, but that sounds like words to live by that everyone can agree with, believer or not!
As soon as you switched to the headphone/board/stream audio ... I was like yep, 100% they need a couple of room mics! That room does SO much extra for the sound, it's really a great sounding room!
I like doing these jobs. I have one coming up Thursday. Don't know what I'm walking in to but that's the fun part. Getting them all set to go is satisfying.
Cable management is extremely important. I have several different standard lengths of XLR cables and only use the length I need so I don't have a ton of cables being knotted all over the stage. I have each XLR labeled with colored labels on each end, color coded for length, and serialized so I can match one end to another without having to trace the whole cable. I also have a list at the snakes/wall plates/preamps/etc. with a preamp scheme. I have a small orchestra and large choir with front singers on Sunday the potential to mic up a full orchestra. I need to be able to lay out and take up mics and cables quickly.
I've really been loving this series of videos! Great work! I've learned some things. I'm a drummer and sound engineer/DJ and one piece of advice I give about drums is that you can literally make any drum kit sound decent with the right tuning and muffling. Even a cheap low-end beginner kit...but cymbals, no. I always suggest going hard and spending money on good quality cymbals over a higher end kit. If you only have the money to spend on one of those I suggest getting better cymbals. Makes a HUGE difference. Anyway, I hope you continue to make these videos!
I love the "Super Size Me" vibe you have going now Also love how (super relatable as a church musician with a bad sound man) the guitarist knows whats up. Dude prolly gets told he is the problem a majority of the time and just doesn't want to feel paranoid
Hello Chris. Thank you for your video. I have been having a hard time video a hard drive that can plug and record directly from the x32. Could you please recommend the one that you are using to plug and record the Mx from the usb output
It can be a pet peeve when it comes to cable management. It happens a lot in some venues. But I feel like this is amazing to watch! Sound mixing in general is something I would love to do! Right now I'm a singer and a DJ but I do want to run sound too one day!
I'm loving this series. It was recommended by RUclips. I know nothing about sound engineering apart from the very basic I learned when messing around in FL Studio years ago but this is fascinating.
Excellent work. Great patience. You are right a room mic would be nice for live stream. I been doing house of worship audio for over 40 years and can appreciate how tough it is to get a good mix with thrown together gear and less than professional musicians. Well done sir!
God is going to bless you ever so abundantly for the work you do my friend. Thank you for your awesome video. And all the knowledge you give us through them.
A better management should make everyone's life easier. When I do setups like this, usually, a distro with multi core cable(containing 12 XLR cables in a thick cable)is used. Plugs that connect distro to stage box(a midas DL251) have marked numbers, corresponding to distro's port 1 to 12. So just have routing and clock set, remembering something such as 1 to 12 input on DL251(or other stage box) corresponds to input 1 to 12 on sound desk, 13 to some value corresponds to another distro's corresponding ports.
These videos just confirm that better audio equates to better ministry. It’s not everything, obviously. But if you can’t hear the sermon because there are ringing microphone issues, or the worship mix is muffled or excessively overdriven or sounds underwater on the live mix, people are not going to worship to their best possible ability, on the stage and in the congregation.
At my school we have a group of students, including me, doing sound and light for some small events there. All of our stuff is mobile, so you do not want to see that cable management
Ahhhh did you fix the Cablemanagement before you left them? Mad respect dude for fixing the Sound without fixing the Cables and Patching first.... and while those kids are running around screaming haha very focused and professional!
Thanks for the superfast response...hey do you have a link for the livestream episode you mixed??? I didn't see it on RUclips. Great job by the way...I'm learning streaming from you...I need some more hardware but this helps me understand the process. Johnny
Heck yeah! These videos never disappoint. I gotta ask though, was it uncomfortable using the console at that position? I also love the addition of the GoPro filming the screen of the console. (Just could be tilted a little bit so it's a little easier to read)
The video quality on this one is insane! Is that the DJI Osmo pocket? Amazing. Nice work as always. You do what they need to improve their sound a lot in less than one day and you don't judge their system at all bc you know how hard it for them to do it without the audio knowledge . Keep pushing dude!
And so are you telling me sir. You went to straighten the folks out. Without an introduction? Without a Production Meeting, first? And now you're going to try to make sense of someone else's, wacky tacky wiring scheme? And you are contracted to do what? Do they have a certain, conceptual understanding of audio? And why you might do for them the, things, you do? But if you don't have a production meeting beforehand. And there is no introduction. And you just go in and change things. That's called sabotage. That, sabotages them. And robs them of the understanding they need from you. They are guiding you with Jesus. You are guiding their Jesus with audio. To the great beyond. Out in the heavens. Once it makes it on the radio. It shoots out, into the cosmos at the speed of light in the dark. On its way. Out to eternity and their Jesus. Voilà! I practice in, Eternal Life, Recordings and Broadcasts, Streams and Pods. Please go, pea, first. Not in or on the Pod. Thank U. And so these recordings and broadcasts I make. Will go on to eternity. So I remain agnostic. Until somebody else phones home. Our lines are open. We are waiting to be called. Waiting. RemyRAD
Yep. I actually show up door-to-door with churches and I just find my way to their audio system randomly and make content. I always find responding to emails and coordinating dates for me to show up to be super lame. It’s always better when I show up unannounced with camera gear, and I just sabotage their audio system.
What VW do you have that's got a stick shift? THAT's AWESOME! oh SQUIRREL lol and yeah as always my OCD is more than tingling I think it fell off! LOL Great video as always! oh and man. ONE F($#$(#$ING CABLE TO KILL ALL THAT SPAGHETTI! sorry.. Capps, but yeah. one digital box, and one CAT6e Heavy shielded, and bam... no more mess.(plus MUCH shorter XLRs from the box obviously holy cow) can you imagine? Get those offering plates a shakin'! 😂
Very nice series. It would be interesting to try and fix church mixes in which they do not use Behringer x32, it will be very informative, for me at least, to see how you can mix on old analog mixers, or on different digital mixers from Soundcraft, Allen & Heath, Presonus, and the list goes on, if they reach out to you with this kind of tech. God bless you!
For volunteers I think the bus routing is too many extra steps. As long as they got someone that knows what they’re doing or can follow this video they should be good.
You don’t cover a speaker with a blanket, but what it does is help absorb sound and isolate the kick drum further from the rest of the kit. It also helps reduce bleed from the kick into the other microphones.
I don't know about the best Philly cheesesteak, but I have the most interesting location for a Philly Cheesesteak. I was in Saudi Arabia last year during their Founder's Day celebration and happened to be in Riyadh on the night of the big celebration. I went to Boulevard City in Riyadh and had supper in the food court. There were an unbelievable amount of establishments selling food, and I opted for a Philly Cheesesteak. The irony wasn't lost on me.
Hey, love your videos. Do you do this as a ministry? Its on my heart to do this for churches here in New Zealand but not sure where to start. I own a commercialAV company here in NZ and God has given me a gift and i feel it would be a sin if i didnt help the kingdom of God with my giftings.
#1: In this type of installation I would have put in a couple of smaller multis, 8+2 by the drums, 8+2 by the choir etc to be able to remove the cable salad, maybe even make XLR cables with the right lenghts instead of a lot of cable on the floor. #2: I HATE when artists let their kids roam free, running and yelling while i'll try to run cable or soundcheck....
i wish someone could just put me in a room full of drum mics and cables that are all miss arranged and let me re do it. its SOO therapeutic. Edit: The Reading Terminal Market has some of the best cheesesteaks you can find. All of the vendors are pretty good.
Seeing those spaghetti cables all tangled up is like seeing gordon ramsay finding 2 years expired food in the fridge.🤣 Kudos to you.🙌 Love your videos man, keep it up. From New Zealand
Thanks for showing. Beside this worse cable management the background noise of all the people would drive me crazy. You want to listen to something and from every edge someone is making noise. The guitarist while you are setting up the drums, the keyboard while making question about the microphones . This kids and the people talking the whole time.. no discripline. So the cable management seams no wonder.
I fought our system for about 20 hours redoing cable management. Then I proceeded to rearrange the routing from snake to board so it looks nice but is entirely unusable if someone wants to change anything (I'll fix it when I have time lol)
from what I see, I can tell that you like what you do and you do it with love, personally I am confused with how much knowledge you have about these digital mixers in all your videos I felt your calmness and professionalism, I think you given something special to help those in need. I want as many videos as possible from you with what you do, maybe I can learn something from the crumbs that fall from your table. You make my day more beautiful by watching the way you explain. Thank you
Not worse than under my desk lol. I tried several times to keep it neat. I always get longer cables instead of short. Problem is i have lots of PC cables and tons of exteranal instrument racks...and the area is so small to keep sliding my desk out.. first to go around the monitors first and not trip over a wire.
i hate it so much, that i love it. I am taking my first plane ride to philly soon and every tells me angelos?.."i woulda been like...nevermind just plug in ur crap an leave me alone"
I’ve become a fan of this channel my friend. This band has some “What a mighty God we serveeeeeee!” Vibes 😂😂😂 cheers my man. I hope I can sleep after seeing that cable management👋🏼
Great job man! I wish I had that kind of confidence to go and dig through other people's setups. I know my church's rig and my home rig 😂. Day and night🌙 .
Yo Chris , really appreciate your vids. I need some advice , I do sound for this church in my area but they cant afford a Digital Mixer at the moment. The current mixer they are using is a Analague Behringer Eurodesk mixer that sounds terrible. What wouold you suggest I do cause they audio that goes into OBS sounds bad but the audio on FOH sound decent compared to the FOH. Greetings from South Africa.
This is awesome! We did two X32 producer boards (wish we did the standard X32), one dedicated for our stream and this setup with the bus for mains is a great idea! Wonder if we should of done so rather than 2 X32s as we run low on human resources at our church, me being the drummer and other guy that knows sound being the bass.
That mix turned out really well! Have you considered adding reverb to this mixes? They sound pretty dry, I know you know that some effect would really elevate it
So the one result of this series is that I might get a X32. Why you may ask? Not for church or anything sensible but rather livestreaming myself at home. Well I would love a smaller version but the one thing I learned is that this one can do I/O in a much better way than any other device I was able to find so far... I was already half way just building my own PCB to solve that :| but looking at the price its probably cheaper to go with this thing. Even though I only have 1 or 2 analog inputs used and no analog outs it still would allow me to do EQ and bus stuff from my pc audio for different things which just dont (yet) work fully on my PC :D (And faders for stuff are just very plesant)
There are so many options for smaller mixers, why do you feel like your options are 1) oversized, out-of-date console or 2) DIY hell? Have you looked at any of the options?
@@chrishammillaudio I'm not here to hate on it -- it clearly serves a great role in the churches that I see you working in, and in other small venues I can see its benefit (I have personal ethical problems with Behringer that will keep me from buying their gear, but that's beside my point in this comment). I'm just responding specifically to the person who is talking about buying an X32 for just a handful of inputs. It feels a bit like overkill and not quite the right console for the job (though admittedly the job is pretty vague, just "live streaming") and I know that sometimes I watch a few RUclips videos and think I need X tool to solve a problem because that's what I see people using for bigger similar problems but it turns out that if I did a bit more research into the options I could get away with a smaller, more problem-appropriate tool.
For just a small amount of inputs you don’t need a full size console. That being said there is an X32 compact. I would rather get an SQ5 or the equivalent Presonus if it were my money.
I love how these are recorded and edited like its a reality tv show.
Chris: *focusing on the mixer*
The Children running around: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
So true.
Bad cable management only triggers me when it's worse than mine lol. I try to keep our stages clean, but it's an uphill fight that often ends in me hanging my head in shame.
Lol relatable. Same it only bugs me if it's visible or careless. If it's a big cord spaghetti because that's the only place where it makes sense to be like that, (like behind the wall near the drumkit in this situation since it's totally hidden) doesn't bug me at all.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 it bothers me from a logistical perspective. Cable spaghetti adds just a little extra frustration to teardown later, and I wish I had more willpower when setting up to deal with it properly. Doesn't bother me during a show though.
Sometimes I think my school has really bad audio setup. But watching you always helps debugging some issues :)
Thanks I think lol
I want to get into this field so bad. I am on my way slowly though. Thank you for these they are very helpful and inspiring to keep pursuing my path
Kudos to you, brother! You handled the cable situation pretty well. I've been doing sound engineering for about two years now, and when I see this kind of cable management, I just unplug everything and start from scratch. I've been learning a lot from you, brother. Thank you for the video.
Yup. Let me back in tomorrow morning right after services are over. I'll pull out every wire, roll it neatly, and start from scratch.
I hate when other people are playing during a soundcheck. Like come on wait your turn and be respectful to your time. I understand you are getting just levels but man it bugs me lol great stuff man. I will keep watching every video you put out. Love the content bro🤘🏻
I think they were just jamming out too much and lost in the music they were playing. When the whole band was sound checking it took chris like 5 times to get them to stop they were having so much fun playing lol.:P
I think a lot of church bands don’t really know how to sound check. We get comfy with the same set up week after week so we don’t go thru the process.
@@c.s.5177 I play at a church every Sunday. People just need taught us all. No hate here just bugs me lol 😊
@@therideofalifetime I’ve been working on my little group
Absolutely love this series, for someone who isn’t an audio engineer/ official sound guy it’s definitely helping me out a lot with learning my way with getting a good mix behind the board, having good cable management & having a good sound for a service
I literally learned how to run sound from this series. I’m a lighting designer, but wanted to get into sound. I ran my first sound show a few months ago.
"Just be kind and good things will happen." I'm not religious either, but that sounds like words to live by that everyone can agree with, believer or not!
As soon as you switched to the headphone/board/stream audio ... I was like yep, 100% they need a couple of room mics! That room does SO much extra for the sound, it's really a great sounding room!
Exactly!
Could you not just put a reverb on the main fader to approximate the room for the stream, in the meantime?
Its kinda funny that Room mics and bad PA can make you Sound much better hehe
the thing i love about this is that they probaly brought the longest cables they could find thinking no one will take offense to this.
Nice job...!!
(27:31 Chris Hammill Rap 😅)
I tried an x32 producer for my band, it's a big change, we had an analogue
That drummer knew exactly what he was doing. :P
@@voca-chan7953 🎛️💯
I like doing these jobs. I have one coming up Thursday. Don't know what I'm walking in to but that's the fun part. Getting them all set to go is satisfying.
Cable management is extremely important. I have several different standard lengths of XLR cables and only use the length I need so I don't have a ton of cables being knotted all over the stage. I have each XLR labeled with colored labels on each end, color coded for length, and serialized so I can match one end to another without having to trace the whole cable. I also have a list at the snakes/wall plates/preamps/etc. with a preamp scheme. I have a small orchestra and large choir with front singers on Sunday the potential to mic up a full orchestra. I need to be able to lay out and take up mics and cables quickly.
North Kensington Avenue is where most of the Rocky's were filmed including the first one. His first apartment, the pet store & Mickey's gym.
Google must've recommended this because I'm Haitian myself, and y'all were working with a Haitian church. LOL
Mr. we also need your help for our church...
Love the videos! Low key these remind me of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares haha
Thats the inspiration for the series.
I've really been loving this series of videos! Great work! I've learned some things. I'm a drummer and sound engineer/DJ and one piece of advice I give about drums is that you can literally make any drum kit sound decent with the right tuning and muffling. Even a cheap low-end beginner kit...but cymbals, no. I always suggest going hard and spending money on good quality cymbals over a higher end kit. If you only have the money to spend on one of those I suggest getting better cymbals. Makes a HUGE difference. Anyway, I hope you continue to make these videos!
And we're back!!!!! Great video my man!
I would have disconnected everything, and reconnected, arranging the wiring jejeje, It's a real mess, very good job.
Same. Unplug all the outs. Trace them home and replug. Then start working on the ins.
I love the "Super Size Me" vibe you have going now
Also love how (super relatable as a church musician with a bad sound man) the guitarist knows whats up. Dude prolly gets told he is the problem a majority of the time and just doesn't want to feel paranoid
Hello Chris. Thank you for your video. I have been having a hard time video a hard drive that can plug and record directly from the x32. Could you please recommend the one that you are using to plug and record the Mx from the usb output
Any usb flash drive formatted to fat 32 up to 64GB will work.
It can be a pet peeve when it comes to cable management. It happens a lot in some venues. But I feel like this is amazing to watch! Sound mixing in general is something I would love to do! Right now I'm a singer and a DJ but I do want to run sound too one day!
I'm loving this series. It was recommended by RUclips. I know nothing about sound engineering apart from the very basic I learned when messing around in FL Studio years ago but this is fascinating.
Excellent work. Great patience. You are right a room mic would be nice for live stream.
I been doing house of worship audio for over 40 years and can appreciate how tough it is to get a good mix with thrown together gear and less than professional musicians. Well done sir!
Light Blue Gatorade Zero, goated drink for sound/music guys 😂😂
The drink of champions
Great mixing brother. Greetings from Malaysia. 👏👏
God is going to bless you ever so abundantly for the work you do my friend. Thank you for your awesome video. And all the knowledge you give us through them.
The video is impressive, but to tell the truth, the children screaming all the time have made my hair stand on end, I couldn't work like that
A better management should make everyone's life easier. When I do setups like this, usually, a distro with multi core cable(containing 12 XLR cables in a thick cable)is used. Plugs that connect distro to stage box(a midas DL251) have marked numbers, corresponding to distro's port 1 to 12. So just have routing and clock set, remembering something such as 1 to 12 input on DL251(or other stage box) corresponds to input 1 to 12 on sound desk, 13 to some value corresponds to another distro's corresponding ports.
"It's been raining all week"
Me: "What do you mean? It's always sunny in Philadelphia..."
Your patience is key. Very positive attitude and kindness goes far in this work.
Cable management is the very confusion one buy I love it
Doing for God's kingdom ❤❤
These videos just confirm that better audio equates to better ministry. It’s not everything, obviously. But if you can’t hear the sermon because there are ringing microphone issues, or the worship mix is muffled or excessively overdriven or sounds underwater on the live mix, people are not going to worship to their best possible ability, on the stage and in the congregation.
What a great job you are doing in the houses of God. That mix sounds great in my cheap 10 dollar earphones from Walmart 🙏🏾
That cable box is the epitome of anxiety for audio technicians.
At my school we have a group of students, including me, doing sound and light for some small events there. All of our stuff is mobile, so you do not want to see that cable management
nth annoys me than trying to fix the audio and musicians wont stop playing like bruh practice at home ..
Ahhhh did you fix the Cablemanagement before you left them? Mad respect dude for fixing the Sound without fixing the Cables and Patching first.... and while those kids are running around screaming haha very focused and professional!
We sorted cables after the fact. Kids screaming is a hassle but got there in the end.
Thanks for the superfast response...hey do you have a link for the livestream episode you mixed??? I didn't see it on RUclips. Great job by the way...I'm learning streaming from you...I need some more hardware but this helps me understand the process. Johnny
This episode was filmed sometime in April so it might be available on the church's RUclips page.
i'm not religious but if people wanna sing then people gonna sing
Heck yeah! These videos never disappoint. I gotta ask though, was it uncomfortable using the console at that position? I also love the addition of the GoPro filming the screen of the console. (Just could be tilted a little bit so it's a little easier to read)
The board can was on a tripod. Nothing I can do about the angle.
Not awkward spot at all. All I did is rotate my head to the left.
The video quality on this one is insane! Is that the DJI Osmo pocket? Amazing. Nice work as always. You do what they need to improve their sound a lot in less than one day and you don't judge their system at all bc you know how hard it for them to do it without the audio knowledge . Keep pushing dude!
Just an iPhone and my Osmo Action 4 with some patience in the edit.
Wait how do you turn off the channel in config? I have time channels blacked out but I still see signals coming in.
so glad i subscribed a while ago. great content
And so are you telling me sir. You went to straighten the folks out. Without an introduction? Without a Production Meeting, first? And now you're going to try to make sense of someone else's, wacky tacky wiring scheme? And you are contracted to do what?
Do they have a certain, conceptual understanding of audio? And why you might do for them the, things, you do?
But if you don't have a production meeting beforehand. And there is no introduction. And you just go in and change things. That's called sabotage. That, sabotages them. And robs them of the understanding they need from you. They are guiding you with Jesus. You are guiding their Jesus with audio. To the great beyond. Out in the heavens. Once it makes it on the radio. It shoots out, into the cosmos at the speed of light in the dark. On its way. Out to eternity and their Jesus. Voilà!
I practice in, Eternal Life, Recordings and Broadcasts, Streams and Pods. Please go, pea, first. Not in or on the Pod. Thank U.
And so these recordings and broadcasts I make. Will go on to eternity. So I remain agnostic.
Until somebody else phones home. Our lines are open. We are waiting to be called. Waiting.
RemyRAD
Yep. I actually show up door-to-door with churches and I just find my way to their audio system randomly and make content. I always find responding to emails and coordinating dates for me to show up to be super lame. It’s always better when I show up unannounced with camera gear, and I just sabotage their audio system.
What VW do you have that's got a stick shift? THAT's AWESOME! oh SQUIRREL lol and yeah as always my OCD is more than tingling I think it fell off! LOL Great video as always! oh and man. ONE F($#$(#$ING CABLE TO KILL ALL THAT SPAGHETTI! sorry.. Capps, but yeah. one digital box, and one CAT6e Heavy shielded, and bam... no more mess.(plus MUCH shorter XLRs from the box obviously holy cow) can you imagine? Get those offering plates a shakin'! 😂
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@@chrishammillaudio Yeah I just figured that out I guess I could have just done some research. lol looks like a very nice ride. Cheers!
This fascinating to watch.. Great Talent
amazing video!
bro you are so underrated
Very nice series.
It would be interesting to try and fix church mixes in which they do not use Behringer x32, it will be very informative, for me at least, to see how you can mix on old analog mixers, or on different digital mixers from Soundcraft, Allen & Heath, Presonus, and the list goes on, if they reach out to you with this kind of tech. God bless you!
I work with whatever mixer they have.
For volunteers I think the bus routing is too many extra steps. As long as they got someone that knows what they’re doing or can follow this video they should be good.
Hence why I showed them and they filmed it.
@@chrishammillaudio hopefully that gets shared among everyone. Good video as always! Love the series.
What song were they jamming with at 32:00? I especially like the sound of the arrangement
No clue.
Question: what does using a blanket to cover the kick mic and the speaker necessarily do. Clearly new to sound 😀
You don’t cover a speaker with a blanket, but what it does is help absorb sound and isolate the kick drum further from the rest of the kit. It also helps reduce bleed from the kick into the other microphones.
hot take... Does anyone ever use the USELESS phone cradle on the X32? lol
😂
I always think they are for your BlackBerry 😂
GREAT JOB!!! can you do this with a xr18??
I can do this with any console.
I don't know about the best Philly cheesesteak, but I have the most interesting location for a Philly Cheesesteak. I was in Saudi Arabia last year during their Founder's Day celebration and happened to be in Riyadh on the night of the big celebration. I went to Boulevard City in Riyadh and had supper in the food court. There were an unbelievable amount of establishments selling food, and I opted for a Philly Cheesesteak. The irony wasn't lost on me.
The acoustics of that venue seem great!
They were.
Hey, love your videos. Do you do this as a ministry? Its on my heart to do this for churches here in New Zealand but not sure where to start. I own a commercialAV company here in NZ and God has given me a gift and i feel it would be a sin if i didnt help the kingdom of God with my giftings.
I am not in ministry, nor am I part of any organized religion.
@@chrishammillaudio well your work is appreciated my man. Appreciate your response
howcome these churches have better mixing desks than most studio's!!!
Because most “studios” are not real studios. If an X32 is “fancier” than a studio desk, that studio is not a studio lol
@@chrishammillaudio Nah im joking ofc but love what you have done!
I love these episodes! So grateful for a new Church audio mixdown episode! 😊
I was planning a day to watch this! Hurraa, now i'm finally able to watch it!!
#1: In this type of installation I would have put in a couple of smaller multis, 8+2 by the drums, 8+2 by the choir etc to be able to remove the cable salad, maybe even make XLR cables with the right lenghts instead of a lot of cable on the floor.
#2: I HATE when artists let their kids roam free, running and yelling while i'll try to run cable or soundcheck....
I have no budget to buy gear. I go into these blind and work with what I got.
@@chrishammillaudio I'm not blaming you, you do what you can with what they got (Y)
i wish someone could just put me in a room full of drum mics and cables that are all miss arranged and let me re do it. its SOO therapeutic.
Edit: The Reading Terminal Market has some of the best cheesesteaks you can find. All of the vendors are pretty good.
Honorary mention has to be made for the iconic Philadelphia International Record Label! 🎶🎶
The Wawa bags are iconic now in Phillly...I must have at least 10 between car/truck/home and work. Great job!
Seeing those spaghetti cables all tangled up is like seeing gordon ramsay finding 2 years expired food in the fridge.🤣 Kudos to you.🙌 Love your videos man, keep it up. From New Zealand
Thanks for showing. Beside this worse cable management the background noise of all the people would drive me crazy. You want to listen to something and from every edge someone is making noise. The guitarist while you are setting up the drums, the keyboard while making question about the microphones . This kids and the people talking the whole time..
no discripline. So the cable management seams no wonder.
3:13 Yeah... I've been doing sound for 32 years and can't stand a mess like that. But it's like a collision on the highway: You can't help but look 😊
these videos are amazing
Nice Mixing
I fought our system for about 20 hours redoing cable management. Then I proceeded to rearrange the routing from snake to board so it looks nice but is entirely unusable if someone wants to change anything (I'll fix it when I have time lol)
We need help in Chattanooga TN 😭 to connect our mixer
Send me an email!
As a Haitian, I’m surprised but happy from this video!
How do you not have a notepad...I can't remember that without drawing a plot map.
I use my phone.
@@chrishammillaudio Would've connected a router and went down with an iPad. 😛
@@TinoSchulz1990 yeah Chris is great using the knobs and actual mixer...that is my weakness...I have been using Mixing Station and an iPad...
from what I see, I can tell that you like what you do and you do it with love, personally I am confused with how much knowledge you have about these digital mixers in all your videos I felt your calmness and professionalism, I think you given something special to help those in need. I want as many videos as possible from you with what you do, maybe I can learn something from the crumbs that fall from your table. You make my day more beautiful by watching the way you explain. Thank you
Another great episode, Chris! Great work (and I see you took a trip to Wawa; when in Rome, right?!?!!) Thanks for sharing!
I thought the church I work at had bad cable management 😆
God I love the X32 though
Not worse than under my desk lol. I tried several times to keep it neat. I always get longer cables instead of short. Problem is i have lots of PC cables and tons of exteranal instrument racks...and the area is so small to keep sliding my desk out.. first to go around the monitors first and not trip over a wire.
thanks for the new vids one of the best
i hate it so much, that i love it. I am taking my first plane ride to philly soon and every tells me angelos?.."i woulda been like...nevermind just plug in ur crap an leave me alone"
I’ve become a fan of this channel my friend.
This band has some “What a mighty God we serveeeeeee!” Vibes 😂😂😂 cheers my man. I hope I can sleep after seeing that cable management👋🏼
I know what this feels like.
I’ve done the same for a couple of school auditoriums.
Love trying to do a sound check with little ones running around screaming. 😂
All I do is record and mix vocals and beats in a daw. Still i love to watch these. MOOORE
These Videos make my Day! Thanks! I was inclined to start over with the cable management. Wonderful things happening all around!
Great job man! I wish I had that kind of confidence to go and dig through other people's setups. I know my church's rig and my home rig 😂. Day and night🌙 .
Yo Chris , really appreciate your vids. I need some advice , I do sound for this church in my area but they cant afford a Digital Mixer at the moment. The current mixer they are using is a Analague Behringer Eurodesk mixer that sounds terrible. What wouold you suggest I do cause they audio that goes into OBS sounds bad but the audio on FOH sound decent compared to the FOH. Greetings from South Africa.
I personally use a Tascam model 24. If you can’t afford a digital console get one of those. Warm pres and it’s very easy to use.
would you recommend sound engineering? thinking of switching (i'm currently studying chemistry but i hate it)
If you wish to work hard for little money, sound is the right job for you!
This video auto played while I’m meticulously wiring up a rack. Makes me feel a little better about my work!
That video it's a great north.
Thanks for sharing us your audio knowledge.
holy fk lmao had to look away for a moment there lmao
Yeah. It was bad
I love this series dude!!!! Also Angelos gets my vote for the best cheesesteak in Philly. Long wait times but well worth it
Thanks for watching! Never been to Angelo’s but next time I’m in the area I’ll check it out.
Idk how you dealt with how the drummer was “sound checking” 🫣
This is awesome! We did two X32 producer boards (wish we did the standard X32), one dedicated for our stream and this setup with the bus for mains is a great idea! Wonder if we should of done so rather than 2 X32s as we run low on human resources at our church, me being the drummer and other guy that knows sound being the bass.
It’s always good to have a separate stream and FOH console.
That mix turned out really well! Have you considered adding reverb to this mixes? They sound pretty dry, I know you know that some effect would really elevate it
There’s a tiny bit but if they have room mics they will have all the reverb they’ll need.
amazing edit! thank you chris! love your job! great before and after! 180 degree
So the one result of this series is that I might get a X32. Why you may ask? Not for church or anything sensible but rather livestreaming myself at home. Well I would love a smaller version but the one thing I learned is that this one can do I/O in a much better way than any other device I was able to find so far... I was already half way just building my own PCB to solve that :| but looking at the price its probably cheaper to go with this thing. Even though I only have 1 or 2 analog inputs used and no analog outs it still would allow me to do EQ and bus stuff from my pc audio for different things which just dont (yet) work fully on my PC :D (And faders for stuff are just very plesant)
It's a very reliable console.
There are so many options for smaller mixers, why do you feel like your options are 1) oversized, out-of-date console or 2) DIY hell? Have you looked at any of the options?
@@kevinmccoy781 The X32 is far from out of date and is affordable. I don't get the hate for this thing.
@@chrishammillaudio I'm not here to hate on it -- it clearly serves a great role in the churches that I see you working in, and in other small venues I can see its benefit (I have personal ethical problems with Behringer that will keep me from buying their gear, but that's beside my point in this comment). I'm just responding specifically to the person who is talking about buying an X32 for just a handful of inputs. It feels a bit like overkill and not quite the right console for the job (though admittedly the job is pretty vague, just "live streaming") and I know that sometimes I watch a few RUclips videos and think I need X tool to solve a problem because that's what I see people using for bigger similar problems but it turns out that if I did a bit more research into the options I could get away with a smaller, more problem-appropriate tool.
For just a small amount of inputs you don’t need a full size console. That being said there is an X32 compact. I would rather get an SQ5 or the equivalent Presonus if it were my money.
dude has obviously never been to louisiana.
or RIOT blockchain mining.
Went to New Orleans last year.
I'm going to have nightmares of cable management after this video!
Also do you low cut or eq the monitors???
Only if needed but usually high pass up to 100-120