Hey, it's Dave Dolphin at practicalworshipblog.com,
sharing ideas, tips and
practical advice for the everyday
worship leader. Today I want to talk
about our broadcast mix, the audio mix
that we used as a part of our livestream
when we broadcast live our services on
the internet either for people
to watch that morning while it's going on
live or later on in the week.
And specifically how you can make your
broadcast audio have life and presence
and not be flat and dry and bland and
things like that. So our broadcast mix is
actually a board mix from our front of house.
We don't have a separate desk in a
separate room or anything like that. Here
at front of house we actually also
create our broadcast mix but, there's
some things that we do to it that give
it life and presence and not be bland
and dry.
I'm going to give you a taste of what our
broadcast mix sounds like. I've got some
multi-tracks over here from a previous
Sunday and the exact mix that we used for
this song on this Sunday, and so it
sounds a little bit like this...
All right. So I'm going to make some
changes. I'm going to turn some things
off and do a couple things that I'll explain
what I'm doing here in a second, but I
want you to compare what you just listened to
to this...
Could you hear how dry and flat that
second version is compared to the first
version? It has no space. It doesn't
live in a 3D space, and if there's a
common mistake that I here on livestreams
that churches do is that they use some
kind of a board mix that
doesn't live in any kind of space. When
you are in the room, the auditorium (the
room or whatever) has a natural feeling or
presence to it, a reverb. When you have
a dry mix all of that is gone, so you
have to add that back in, take your music
and put it back into kind of a 3D space.
Now the first thing that we do is we
utilize panning and we use stereo. We use
that to our advantage. Now the PA in this
room is actually mono, so anything that
we do in stereo in the room has no
benefit. But for our broadcast mix it does
help. So for example, right here is the
the panning knob, and you can kind of see how as
I go through the different channels we
are utilizing the stereo field. So some
things are left and some things are
right. Things like this... right here is our
live keys and that is in stereo and our
Ableton tracks right here we run
those in stereo as well. Again, taking
advantage of the stereo field to begin
the process of at least putting it in a
two-dimensional space and having a sense
of a left and a right. Now the second
thing that we do is that we actually mix
with a lot of effects, with reverb and
delay, and that's part of our sound. We
take a page from Andrew Stone's book
at Church on the Move in that we like to use
a lot of effects and reverbs and delays
and things like that, primarily for the
sound in the house but the broadcast mix
definitely benefits from that. So let's
just talk about the drums for just a
second here.
I'll turn it off...
All right, so let's talk about what's going on.
We have a dedicated reverb just for our
drums. We have a lot of snare drum and a
little bit of the toms as well.
This song he's actually got some cymbals
in there as well. Normally that's down
like that. Adding just some reverb mainly
to the snare and a little bit to the
toms can really put the entire drum kit
into a three-dimensional space. So the
next thing that we do a lot of effects
on is going to be the vocals. Our
strategy is that we actually have two
verbs, one that's super long and another
one that is a lot shorter. The main vocal
gets the long and the rest of the
background vocals get the short. So here
is the lead vocal through that reverb.
What's going on there
is lots of that goes to my lead vocal
right here and then the rest of the
singers get this shorter verb. Now in
order to make all the singers kind of
sound like one, notice that I'm getting a
little bit in the short verb and
everyone else is getting a little bit in
the long verb, but that way the long
verb is just for the lead and it
doesn't muddy up the mix with all these
reverb trails of all these people
singing. It gives the effect of the space
but not muddying up the mix.
Here's what the background vocals sound like.
So that puts it in
some kind of a 3D space, but it's not too
much. Just enough to kind of put it
together. And then the final thing we do
add is we add delay as well, so all the
vocals together with the delay, the
reverb, everything sounds like this.
Now the last thing that we do is we
actually bring back in some of the
natural reverb of the room with room
mics. We've got a pair of room mics, one
on each of our camera platforms in the
back of the room, and they are just
giving you a little bit more of a
sense of being in the room. They're
picking up the volume off of the stage,
they're picking up reactions from people
singing and clapping and things like
that and just adding a little bit of the
energy of the room back into the mix.
If I mute everything but I turn those on,
I should get just the room mics.
So that's what those sound like. Let's turn
this off. I'm going to keep all the reverbs
and delays off. We'll go back to our dry mix
with our room mics off.
It's real subtle but that combined with
everything else really adds to a mix, a
broadcast mix, that feels like you're in
the room instead of just this dry, flat
non-dimensional mix. So that's kind of
a look into our broadcast mix and how we
add a little bit of life and presence
into it and for those that are watching
at home making them feel, have a sense
that there in the room with us during
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