- So I have an idea.
It's kind of my most ambitious idea
that I've ever had and I'm relatively ambitious guy
but I've already been kind of working on it
if you're on the email list, you already know
about this idea and that is, I want to create.
Wait a sec, I don't have time to drink my coffee at home.
Mm, that's more like it.
Alexa, goodbye.
(upbeat music)
And we're off to my office first,
I'm gonna do a couple things there,
pick up some gear for church this morning
and then Spencer and Lyndsay, my friends,
Spencer who runs sound, Lyndsay his wife
is another worship leader, they're gonna meet me there
so we can carpool to church together
because it's like 20, 25 minute ride
and we live pretty close to each other.
Despite often being tired and exhausted,
Sunday mornings, early Sunday mornings is
one of my favorite times a week
because when everybody else is sleeping,
I'm just off and at it at the grind
like many of you guys are, getting ready,
getting your churches ready for worship,
just a good feeling about that.
Usually my routine when I get here in the morning
is to look over the set list one more time,
maybe practice a song that's a bit newer,
we're introducing a song Grateful this week
by Elevation Worship, really excited about it,
it's a great song.
I feel like it's hard to find non-cheesy,
upbeat songs and this song happens
to make the exception, it just works.
♪ This is the day ♪
I'm excited to use this this Sunday.
What is it you ask?
Well, let's open it up.
It is the nanoKontrol2, so this is for our keyboardist,
it's a cool little midi controller,
we have a keyboard that doesn't have all the fancy knobs
and controls on it, it's a simple M audio one
but my friend David at Sunday Keys sent this over to me,
it's the nanoKontrol2 with the Sunday Keys skin
on top of it, here's the controller,
here's the USB cable that it came with.
So I plug one end to the nanoKontrol2,
plug the other end into my laptop.
Actually, faults alarm on the skin part,
this package just had the nanoKontroler itself
but it's cool, because watch.
When I adjust these knobs here,
look how it adjust the template in Sunday Keys.
See that one on the left?
And then I can move over, I can adjust the faders,
so I'm still gonna use it because even without the skin
it's a really handy template.
The other cool thing I'm trying to set up this morning
is our new livestream system, just testing it out,
just testing out the recording functionality of this.
So I've got one laptop here, I'll be installing Ecamm Live
on to it, I've talked about that at a previous video.
Got the PTZ Optics camera for capturing video,
got a USB cable, that should be all I need
for this camera set up, camera itself, the USB cable,
I've got an audio interface to capture audio
from our board and then we have a tripod,
we're gonna put the camera on the back of the room.
There's Spencer, waiting for another Sunday morning?
- It's a beautiful day.
- Some sound engineering gains going bro.
Oh, there's Lyndsay too.
How's it going Lyndsay? (laughs)
(upbeat music)
We-re gonna stop, get some coffee and food for these two,
I've already had my breakfast, like a responsible adult.
How's McDonald's gonna be for your fitness goals?
I don't want to hang your sound guy.
Thank you.
$11?
$11.70 for your breakfast.
- [Lyndsay] McDonald's is getting boujee.
- Yeah, boujee.
So I have an idea.
I want to create an online worship leader school.
You know, the more that Churchfront grows
and the more I get to know you guys,
you know, whether it's in the comments sections
or in emails that I get from you,
I just want to create something
that's kind of your one-stop-shop to teach you everything
about worship leading as far as,
when I say everything about worship leading,
at first, it's gonna start off with,
there's kind of like hitting some of the main core pillars,
the essentials I would call it
and cover like the five areas of worship ministry
that I think there are.
So like, first there's the pastoral side of worship ministry
then there's the administrative
kind of organizational part of it,
then there's the musicianship part of it,
there's the leadership part of it
and then there's the text side of it.
So I think there's five areas really
that make a well-rounded worship leader
and these are things that I've been learning about
for the past, over 10 years now leading worship
and I want to compile that all into one website.
So it's gonna be a website where you can log in,
access all these different courses
on all these different topics and then what's gonna happen
is each month we'll be coming out with new courses
and or workshops, I still don't really have all the details
together, what exactly that will look like
but it's basically gonna be a monthly membership site
where you pay a really affordable budget friendly membership
to be a part of this site and not only will you have access
to the content but you also going to just have access
to a community 'cause I want to dedicate it forum
for the worship leaders who are students
in worship leader school, so that's what's called
worship leader school, you can actually go to
worshipleaderschool.com
and join the wait list for it so you know
the latest news about it, you'll actually probably receive
some emails from me, 'cause I want your guys' help
as I build out this school, as I create
the different courses, I don't wanna just go by
what I think is a good idea.
I wanna make sure that this is on online school
for worship leaders made by worship leaders.
That's my idea.
- Wow. - Wow.
- You're recording that, right?
(upbeat music)
- This is Jeremy, he is our children's pastor
here at Mission Hills, he's a great guy.
But we have to bring our gear
out of these classrooms, so we have a storage room
but it's like behind like five science rooms
so it's a little bit difficult sometimes to pull
out all of the big cases and lug them out here.
Gotta do what you gotta do.
- Also follow Ashton Turner @ashbash5150.
- All right, so we got our screens up, trusses up,
guys have got sound gear in the back of the room,
sound booth and stuff like that,
now it's time mainly to, obviously you get the finishing
touches on the lighting system
as well as get all the band gear set up on stage
with all our, with sound reinforcement.
A lot of you have asked me, how do you guys control
the house lights in the space that you meet at.
Great question.
So, our lighting computer is back here
with the sound board, so it goes into the DMX splitter
and then from the DMX splitter we have one feed
that's gonna go to the stage and control our LED lights
as well as our spotlights that we use for front lighting
that's all our own lighting system.
And then the other DMX line goes to the sound booth
that's built into the school back here
so that's what this cable is right here.
It runs all the way back to the school sound booth
and then once it gets into the sound booth
we unplug their DMX cable from the back of their light board
and then we plug our DMX cable into their DMX cable
which then goes to the house lights,
so that's how we control the school's house lights
with our lighting computer.
So obviously, you can only have this set up
when the house lights are controlled
by an existing DMX system, if these house lights
were only controlled by a light switch on the wall,
that would not work.
Another question I get is, how do you route your monitor
single from your snake, or your sound console
to the headphone amp that we're using here.
I've another video about what I think is the most affordable
easiest way to do in ear monitoring for worship bands.
A lot of people are really confused by going
from the digital snake to the headphone amp.
So it's simple, from the digital snake,
we have these XLR outputs, these are signals coming
from our sound board to the stage,
because we have a digital board,
we have the, Mitus M32 Behringer system here.
We're able to send up to 16 unique mixes to our stage.
This is very important for the set up to work.
So we send those mixes up here
and then I just have this eight channel snake
that goes from female XLR on the front of the digital snake
as you see right here and then it's only a couple
of feet long, it goes through the back of the rack
that I have up here on stage and then the quarter inch
inputs go into the individual channels
on the headphone amplifier that we have.
So that's how we get those individual mixes
to the headphone amp and then from there
we just put our headphone extension cables
into the front of the headphone amplifier
and then we send those to our musicians.
They each have unique mixes so remember,
key to this system working is that you already have
a digital ecosystem in place with the digital snake
that's able to get all those individuals mixes to the stage.
(upbeat electronic music)
This is kind of story of my life.
I have my PTZ Optics camera right here
and the computer to record video and we could stream it
from here but like I've said, this week's a test
and it's a test because I get everything here,
it took two seconds to set up but I forgot the power adapter
in my office back at home.
So, it's a life of a church plan, you forget something,
you just can't do it, I couldn't find you know,
another power connector that had,
or power adaptor that had the right voltage
and would fit in it, so, next week I'll set up this camera.
So we got the nanoKontrol2 on this keyboard,
works wonderfully for Ashton,
our worship leader keyboardist here.
- Ha, it's pretty dope.
- [Jake] Got our Ableton set here.
Mister Ash has set it up today.
Hey, is this gonna be a perfectly assembled Ableton set?
- I can't make any promises.
- You gotta start somewhere.
Ashton has begun programming all of our Ableton sets
with the click and tracks and pro presenter
and lighting automation and you know,
it's kind of normal though to troubleshoot stuff
because we're setting it up, you know
at our office and then we come here,
it's a different space but usually works pretty well.
Thanks Ashton.
- [Ashton] When am I gonna get paid?
- Paid?
Your treasures are in heaven Ashton,
that's how internships work.
Another thing that we've been doing lately,
is using the Focusrite Scarlett 6I6 interface
to send four audio outputs from Ableton.
So our number one is our clicking guide,
number two is our backing tracks
or most of our backing tracks,
number three is all our bass backing tracks,
so bass guitar, synth bass, anything
that's really bass heavy, and then number four is pads.
So we found that by separating it out
instead of just using two channels
it really helps to get a cleaner, better mix.
(singing a church hymn)
(upbeat electronic music)
Well, rehearsal's over, how did it go Spencer?
- We're okay. - How does it sound?
- You know what, we had some trouble but that's church.
- We have, there's trouble every week,
always troubleshooting stuff, so.
I'm excited, we got two minutes left.
First set went pretty well.
Ashton had some issues with his keys.
Ashton, what happened?
- Um, well, I was playing Reckless Love,
a great song, by the way you should check out Jake's blog
on that, on his website.
My patch decided to stop working
so I was only getting like two out of my five midi cues
for my keyboard so it sounded really funny
and I was trying to be like, the overlaying pad
when we where praying and it was just kind of
like a single note at a time, it was awful.
- Probably my fault, I kind of, we kind of sprung a new set
up on him this morning and then we got to figure out
a better arrangement with how we run main stage
'cause I think that MacBook Air is not really cutting it.
Maybe, I think it will help Ashton
if we get audio interface.
I think that would help reduce
some of the sound processing issues that we have,
so maybe that's the trick, get a $30 interface.
- [Ashton] Maybe I'll just get better at piano too.
- Yeah.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Ha, it's pretty dope.
- That's a wrap, stage cleared.
Friends tired and exhausted.
Pastor even more exhausted.
(upbeat electronic music)