I’m glad to see small church setups. Don’t get me wrong, love to see the very large expensive mega church setups, but this was helpful at least for me. Got some good ideas out of it for my small church.
I agree! With around 70% of US churches being under 100 members, we need more of this type of content. I love the huge tech tours and church front because of the way Jake & the team present the variety of church tech, aiming to inspire people like me to continually improve, think out of the box and equip our volunteer techs to push for non-distracting excellence!
This is great - really helpful. More small church content, please! It’s great seeing practical for those of us not in massive churches. Appreciate your work!
It’s funny. I’m a techno house producer and have been researching ways to jazz up my live setup. Never thought the church guys would give so much game. Always broken down for the layperson which helps even if you know things. Also everyone is so nice. Really appreciate it
I would love to see an estimate of what this setup costs to purchase new + the annual subscription costs. This would help new churches estimate what a system like this costs!
@@shul5684 Whoa! Don't scare people away. Board & Digital Snake 4000. Computer 800. Cameras 300. Stream Deck 200. Speakers 3000. TVs 800. Cables 300. Headphone Amps 500. IEM are actually cheap these days (don't overspend... Amazon has greeeeat ones for 30/ea)... so say 150 for them. ProPresenter (contrary to popular belief) can be purchased with a perpetual license for $400 for a single computer. It does not require a subscription (optional)... So I would say it is possible to do this for $10,000. I would say $5000 is a lot of extra to work into the budget of a small church (if they went off of the $15k number).
Love seeing these small church revamps. Small churches like mine have less volunteers which forces us to think outside the box and have more efficient and user friendly set ups. So I would love to see more and more small church setups like this! Very inspiring and insightful!
Very nice setup. I'll mention a few things/tips for you and viewers here: 1. Computer setup: lighted keyboard and trackball 2. Use long velcro strips to simplify XLR and 1/4" connections: drum machine, snake, mixer back 3. Talkback mic should have switch and a small stand. 4. dbx DriveRack w/ RTM to ring out room 5. 2nd private talkback system so leader can talk privately to sound engineer on headphones. 6. NO SUBWOOFER unless DONE RIGHT. I'm 90% sure the subwoofer is boomy and slow. Position it under a FOH speaker or don't use it at all. 90% of all subwoofer installs I've heard are BAD. Subwoofers tend to muddy up the mix if separated from the FOH speakers. 7. Brother-label every XLR, cable, etc. etc. 8. Everything in Gator cases or 5-gallon buckets w/ lids for storage/mobility. 9. I prefer unpowered speakers w/ Class AB amps. Replacing a defective amp on a powered speaker is a PITA. If a powered speaker goes bad, only the manufacturer can fix it and it may take months and will definitely cost hundreds of dollars. In contrast, a bad unpowered speaker or amp is easily replaced relatively cheaply.
I agree with some of the comments here. While I love the huge churches and all the tech, it's always awesome to see a more relatable/majority level setup. I'm currently renovating the AVL setup at my local church, I'd love to have JG come tour it once it's done as a "small church tech tour" I think he'd enjoy how we're using the space.
Agreed, but consider the technical ability of your volunteers. I'm in my current position because my church switched from an analog to digital mixer and nobody understood how to use the digital mixer.
Also church budget on small churches like this are tight. Most comes from the pastors family. So getting an analog mixer made the most since at that time and level of effort to train a volunteer is lower. Heck we had a church with 8-10 members. Our drums didn’t have any cymbal hardware. But we made it work for the year we attended there.
Great video :-) Very similar to what we are running at our church in Australia. Love to see more small church setups as I think it will resonate with a lot of your viewers. Keep up the great work Adam.
My church is an old one from the 1800s and uses old computer software. We have a small counter area for the tech equipment, made by our head tech guy. It has a computer and an area for a laptop, a sound control system similar to the one shown at 1:01 but bigger and more things to move. And there’s also a light switch area on the wall just above the top counter lip that goes around the outside, hiding the computer equipment with all the switches for all the lights in the worship area
Thanks for the video. . .your church setting information is so useful for us, i appreciate it.. Thank you We also use velcro to manage the cable on the floor...and it really works your church sound system is so advance, the mixer and all the electronics is so good... It is our dreams setting, and imo this setting is the dream of almost church in Indonesia i live in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, imo many of our churches has problem with room acoustics, the ceilings is to high, many of the churches have no proper sound absorsing system. . . But now in the era of information we can improve even though we do it little by little In my church we use behringer xair 12 for the acoustic drum & worship leader/preacher mics. The main mixer is yamaha mgp 16x. . . we also use xair 12 if we go outside service, such as: congregations thanksgiving memorial services(if one of congregation ask or has no budget or recources for it), funeral service, youth camp, or for christmas celebration etc
IMO this is still a lot of tech (cost) for such a small church. An A&H SQ? In ears? Digital stage box? Only one camera? A sub? etc. As a small church, this tech would be a dream. But it's not necessarily what you would NEED. This stuff is not the bottom line. I find with all these tech tours, a LOT of people get confused that the tech shown is base line what you need to "do church". Also, that drummer was pounding that electronic kit. An acoustic kit is absolutely do-able if the player plays for the space. Anyway, what would I know?
I been in churches with less than 20 members half the size of this room and we had acoustic drums but they knew to play for that room so it’s not too loud. We used quieter cymbals in room sizes like that.
For wired in ears i went for a Mackie 8ch rack mount head phone amp. Cost me about $250. Then used long headphone cables, some i made most i purchased. Keeps us away from non-standard or custom connectors and cables. Love the content.
Thank you for the information she will also help us with the Christian mission hope in Canada Quebec Merci pour les infos elle vas aussi nous aider à la mission chrétienne espérance au Canada Québec
more small church content please! We love seeing the big mega church tech, but it would be WAY more practical to most of our churches to see "normal" tech setups lol
Super helpful video! Starting our home church soon and I’m working on all our A/V setup. This helps me determine what equipment is necessary. Thanks! 😁
This really makes me sad and happy at the same time. Our church has 500+ members in a moderately wealthy demographic. Despite this, the church made the purchase of a SQ6 such a big deal. It really hurt to see that they don’t see the value of good equipment.
Nice church sounds system instrument… we started small church group nondenominational no longer bound by church leaders pastors’ rules system. We seen evidence of churches organisation under pastors leaders system no longer bound by biblical principles. In our group we just have one acoustic guitar that’s it.Every time we come together worshiping God the we feel the power of the presence of God moving during our worship. Because I know God is interested whose heart is pure from inside out.
Love the system but it looks like the main speakers are a little to high for the horns reaching the congregation sitting down. Just me. 90x60 degrees & 60 vertical. Otherwise very nice system.
Love it, so clean and simple. What are those Velcro cable covers for carpet floors? I would love to get some. Amazon has some cheap ones while BH has some really expensive ones. Anything wrong with the cheap ones?
I'm surprised those cables weren't run through the wall, exiting through a brushed grommet or a wall plate. That text is mighty small and not to AVIXA standards for the distance from the TVs to the back row. It's common for churches to want to throw up TVs but they can actually do harm to people's vision making the text too small.
Great video, specially assuming that most people watching this videos are from small churches trying to improve like myself. Wondering what is the best way to send video from back computer to front tv’s or projectors?
Thanks so much for this video, I am looking forward to upgrading the audio in our church. We have been having a little issue with our instrumentalists not being able to hear themselves while playing due to the sound regulation. I was wondering could you please explain how you have incorporated the Presonus HP2 into your audio set up. We are a smaller church so our Praise and worship(choir) wouldn’t need it at the moment, we’d only need two for our drummer and pianist at the moment. Thank you again🙏🏾
Hi thanks for the video and i have an doubt so can please explain it..... What Camera have you using for the live stream which softwares you are using and Cables.. with the details can you please explain it for me... In advance.. Thank you.❤
I hope I get an answer on this. This church seems small for the gear. How was the gear funded? If it was fully funded by the church, how was the fund generated?
What is your recommended way for sending video? You mention that wasn't the way to send video, it looks like they're using Ethernet to send the hdmi signal
Great work. I went on and bought presonus earmix 16M..it was said on the description box that it's compatible with presonus studio live and also with other AVB supporting networks. I plugged It Into allen and heath qu 32 and I was disappointed that I couldn't make it work..can you please advise me with your knowledge if this setup can really work? A. I missing something? I would really appreciate your feedback or anyone's feedback 🙏
I’m glad to see small church setups. Don’t get me wrong, love to see the very large expensive mega church setups, but this was helpful at least for me. Got some good ideas out of it for my small church.
X2 we are closer to this set up than bigger churches 😊
Agreed. No matter what size your church is, it's good to see both size setups because many times the answer is somewhere in the middle.
I agree! With around 70% of US churches being under 100 members, we need more of this type of content. I love the huge tech tours and church front because of the way Jake & the team present the variety of church tech, aiming to inspire people like me to continually improve, think out of the box and equip our volunteer techs to push for non-distracting excellence!
Same here , great ideas for my small church
@@johnheyer5424agreed
This is great - really helpful. More small church content, please! It’s great seeing practical for those of us not in massive churches. Appreciate your work!
It’s funny. I’m a techno house producer and have been researching ways to jazz up my live setup. Never thought the church guys would give so much game. Always broken down for the layperson which helps even if you know things. Also everyone is so nice. Really appreciate it
finally....FINALLY a setup that's ACTUALLY practical for churches in Hong Kong can make reference to
I would love to see an estimate of what this setup costs to purchase new + the annual subscription costs.
This would help new churches estimate what a system like this costs!
Looking at a Lil over 15 grand is my guess.
Including the cost of subscriptions such as propresenter
@@shul5684 Whoa! Don't scare people away. Board & Digital Snake 4000. Computer 800. Cameras 300. Stream Deck 200. Speakers 3000. TVs 800. Cables 300. Headphone Amps 500. IEM are actually cheap these days (don't overspend... Amazon has greeeeat ones for 30/ea)... so say 150 for them. ProPresenter (contrary to popular belief) can be purchased with a perpetual license for $400 for a single computer. It does not require a subscription (optional)... So I would say it is possible to do this for $10,000. I would say $5000 is a lot of extra to work into the budget of a small church (if they went off of the $15k number).
Definitely need more of these smaller setup videos. Good job!
For sure
Love seeing these small church revamps. Small churches like mine have less volunteers which forces us to think outside the box and have more efficient and user friendly set ups. So I would love to see more and more small church setups like this! Very inspiring and insightful!
Please pray for our chapel, which is 95% completed. Currently, we still lack funds to install equipment and furniture.
Very nice setup. I'll mention a few things/tips for you and viewers here:
1. Computer setup: lighted keyboard and trackball
2. Use long velcro strips to simplify XLR and 1/4" connections: drum machine, snake, mixer back
3. Talkback mic should have switch and a small stand.
4. dbx DriveRack w/ RTM to ring out room
5. 2nd private talkback system so leader can talk privately to sound engineer on headphones.
6. NO SUBWOOFER unless DONE RIGHT. I'm 90% sure the subwoofer is boomy and slow. Position it under a FOH speaker or don't use it at all. 90% of all subwoofer installs I've heard are BAD. Subwoofers tend to muddy up the mix if separated from the FOH speakers.
7. Brother-label every XLR, cable, etc. etc.
8. Everything in Gator cases or 5-gallon buckets w/ lids for storage/mobility.
9. I prefer unpowered speakers w/ Class AB amps. Replacing a defective amp on a powered speaker is a PITA. If a powered speaker goes bad, only the manufacturer can fix it and it may take months and will definitely cost hundreds of dollars. In contrast, a bad unpowered speaker or amp is easily replaced relatively cheaply.
I'd love to see more of these small church setups. I think we have WAY more small churches than we think. This was really helpful!
Thank you!!! Small church set ups is alot more relatable for some of us!!! Love it! Thanks Adam!
Thank you 'Churchfront' I have been inspired for the past years after watching your videos.
Blessings
I agree with some of the comments here. While I love the huge churches and all the tech, it's always awesome to see a more relatable/majority level setup. I'm currently renovating the AVL setup at my local church, I'd love to have JG come tour it once it's done as a "small church tech tour" I think he'd enjoy how we're using the space.
Love that digital mixer😊.
The leadership of our church bought an analog mixer even though we (the musicians) recommended a digital one.
Agreed, but consider the technical ability of your volunteers. I'm in my current position because my church switched from an analog to digital mixer and nobody understood how to use the digital mixer.
@@celilo I agree. Even with Yamaha MgP32x the volunteers still can't master all the available functions. Thank you for replying.
Also church budget on small churches like this are tight. Most comes from the pastors family. So getting an analog mixer made the most since at that time and level of effort to train a volunteer is lower. Heck we had a church with 8-10 members. Our drums didn’t have any cymbal hardware. But we made it work for the year we attended there.
Loooove the small church tech tour. I would absolutely love some more of these!
We need more small church tech transformation
Great video :-) Very similar to what we are running at our church in Australia. Love to see more small church setups as I think it will resonate with a lot of your viewers. Keep up the great work Adam.
do you have a link for velcro strips?
Great Job Adam. This is inspiring for aspiring churches who want to move forward in quality.
While it’s great to see large systems as well, this is much more relatable.
Absolutely great!!! I love the feeling of small church sound systems, like this one. Just so simple and clean. ❤
😂😂😂 Surely simple is a guitar, a couple of mics and singers, a mini mixer, a couple of powered speakers and a songbook?
This is how this channel started back in the day. Thanks!
More content for smaller churches please 🙏
My church is an old one from the 1800s and uses old computer software. We have a small counter area for the tech equipment, made by our head tech guy. It has a computer and an area for a laptop, a sound control system similar to the one shown at 1:01 but bigger and more things to move. And there’s also a light switch area on the wall just above the top counter lip that goes around the outside, hiding the computer equipment with all the switches for all the lights in the worship area
Love the small set ups.
Love this beautiful look , my church needs this in in our sanctuary as well
I'm gonna need a link to those velcro strips.
Thanks for the video. . .your church setting information is so useful for us, i appreciate it.. Thank you
We also use velcro to manage the cable on the floor...and it really works
your church sound system is so advance, the mixer and all the electronics is so good...
It is our dreams setting, and imo this setting is the dream of almost church in Indonesia
i live in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, imo many of our churches has problem with room acoustics, the ceilings is to high, many of the churches have no proper sound absorsing system. . .
But now in the era of information we can improve even though we do it little by little
In my church we use behringer xair 12 for the acoustic drum & worship leader/preacher mics.
The main mixer is yamaha mgp 16x. . .
we also use xair 12 if we go outside service, such as: congregations thanksgiving memorial services(if one of congregation ask or has no budget or recources for it), funeral service, youth camp, or for christmas celebration etc
Great job! Love the simple setup of this. Cable management is important!
Awesome setup, thanks for the video
Keep up the great work. This is very helpful to many many churches.
I think we all want to know what that velcro strip is!!!
The average church seats only 200 people. I would love to see more videos like this for the average or smaller church.
Can you link the Velcro strip
www.amazon.com/Cable-Protect-Protector-Management-10Length/dp/B0822DDMQY/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3TRO5XQMGW0V1&keywords=Velcro+Cable+ramps&qid=1692744155&sprefix=velcro+cable+ramps%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-5
IMO this is still a lot of tech (cost) for such a small church.
An A&H SQ? In ears? Digital stage box? Only one camera? A sub? etc.
As a small church, this tech would be a dream. But it's not necessarily what you would NEED. This stuff is not the bottom line.
I find with all these tech tours, a LOT of people get confused that the tech shown is base line what you need to "do church".
Also, that drummer was pounding that electronic kit. An acoustic kit is absolutely do-able if the player plays for the space.
Anyway, what would I know?
Yes, this seems like overkill for this size church.
I been in churches with less than 20 members half the size of this room and we had acoustic drums but they knew to play for that room so it’s not too loud. We used quieter cymbals in room sizes like that.
I need those velcro cable covers ASAP! What are they called so I can look them up?!?!?!!!!
For wired in ears i went for a Mackie 8ch rack mount head phone amp. Cost me about $250. Then used long headphone cables, some i made most i purchased. Keeps us away from non-standard or custom connectors and cables.
Love the content.
Oh you guys were close to me! Come to Baltimore!
I'm thinking the same thing!!!
This church was in Odenton, MD - Adam has helped a lot of churches in the Baltimore/Washington area!
small church setups like this is awesome!!! would love to see more things like this
I need the name of those velcro cable covers :)
Thank you for the information she will also help us with the Christian mission hope in Canada Quebec
Merci pour les infos elle vas aussi nous aider à la mission chrétienne espérance au Canada Québec
How is that cable covering velcro called and where can I find that?
more small church content please! We love seeing the big mega church tech, but it would be WAY more practical to most of our churches to see "normal" tech setups lol
Super helpful video! Starting our home church soon and I’m working on all our A/V setup. This helps me determine what equipment is necessary. Thanks! 😁
Everyone wants the Velcro strips please! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
More small church content please!!!
Love seeing the simpler (but still good and reliable) tech setups!
Bring on the small church content! Keep up the good work!
This really makes me sad and happy at the same time. Our church has 500+ members in a moderately wealthy demographic. Despite this, the church made the purchase of a SQ6 such a big deal. It really hurt to see that they don’t see the value of good equipment.
This is quite robust for a small church if you ask me.
Yeah totally. That’s what I was thinking. Could have kept it simpler by a factor of about a thousand!
You guys are awesome period!!!
Yes love this one.
Amazing set up
Nice church sounds system instrument…
we started small church group nondenominational no longer bound by church leaders pastors’ rules system. We seen evidence of churches organisation under pastors leaders system no longer bound by biblical principles. In our group we just have one acoustic guitar that’s it.Every time we come together worshiping God the we feel the power of the presence of God moving during our worship. Because I know God is interested whose heart is pure from inside out.
AWESOME VIDEO SO HELPFUL!! please we need that advice about how to better send the signal we are currently using the same usb Hub
Love the small church setup, would love to get some information on the church to see the live stream.
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Love the system but it looks like the main speakers are a little to high for the horns reaching the congregation sitting down. Just me. 90x60 degrees & 60 vertical. Otherwise very nice system.
Exelente. Aqui tambien es una iglesia pequeña y recien en construccion pero nos ingeniamos en usar la mejor tecnologia a la que podemos alcanzar.
GOOD WORK!
Cool setup ❤ too small and simple
We use a Mevo Start with a IPAD Rode Wireless Go Mic
great work!
Love it, so clean and simple. What are those Velcro cable covers for carpet floors? I would love to get some. Amazon has some cheap ones while BH has some really expensive ones. Anything wrong with the cheap ones?
Wanted to hear what it all sounded like
@churchfront you need ro start doing small church setup
When are you guys doing digital mixer tutorials?
Great video. By any chance can you guys share an estimated budget for this setup?
Hi Guys,
Very good job. Is it possible to have the reference of the velcro mentioned at 0:10 in the video ?
I'm surprised those cables weren't run through the wall, exiting through a brushed grommet or a wall plate. That text is mighty small and not to AVIXA standards for the distance from the TVs to the back row. It's common for churches to want to throw up TVs but they can actually do harm to people's vision making the text too small.
Ok that's good sir but were is the small mixer you removed
This is great! What do you use to label cables?
I just picked up a Brady M211 that I'm really excited about, but the Brady M210 is what I've been using for a while now
Great video, specially assuming that most people watching this videos are from small churches trying to improve like myself. Wondering what is the best way to send video from back computer to front tv’s or projectors?
Is the recommended video setup video up yet???
Thanks so much for this video, I am looking forward to upgrading the audio in our church. We have been having a little issue with our instrumentalists not being able to hear themselves while playing due to the sound regulation. I was wondering could you please explain how you have incorporated the Presonus HP2 into your audio set up. We are a smaller church so our Praise and worship(choir) wouldn’t need it at the moment, we’d only need two for our drummer and pianist at the moment. Thank you again🙏🏾
Good job, God bless your work🙏🏾 how much would this cost, just an estimation, thank you
so helpful ty!
Hi thanks for the video and i have an doubt so can please explain it.....
What Camera have you using for the live stream which softwares you are using and Cables.. with the details can you please explain it for me...
In advance..
Thank you.❤
Can you do or point to a way to record do a virtual soundcheck. We definitely have a small church set up
Seriously for that many chairs you would get more Holy Spirit playing acoustically
Amazing! What is the total price of that?
We are a small church in south Texas. Please I need you help 😊
Je vous félicite pour cette transformation. Je l'aime beaucoup. Mais comment vous contacter si l'on a besoin de vous en Côte d'Ivoire ?
Great project! How about the budget?
Great video! How do you do the two different ProPresenter visuals please?
Nice 👍
I hope I get an answer on this. This church seems small for the gear. How was the gear funded? If it was fully funded by the church, how was the fund generated?
What's the name of that velcro tape and where's the best place to purchase it? Thanks in advance.
Good video
How would you give a small sanctuary acoustic treatment?
whats the name of the velcro for cable on carpet? can you give the link? thanks!
very good
Why 2 capture cards instead of an Atem mini?
What is your recommended way for sending video? You mention that wasn't the way to send video, it looks like they're using Ethernet to send the hdmi signal
Hi, can you please where the velcro strip can be obtained?
Great work.
I went on and bought presonus earmix 16M..it was said on the description box that it's compatible with presonus studio live and also with other AVB supporting networks. I plugged It Into allen and heath qu 32 and I was disappointed that I couldn't make it work..can you please advise me with your knowledge if this setup can really work? A. I missing something? I would really appreciate your feedback or anyone's feedback 🙏
Just curious on how much all this cost???
How much for the setup!
Sorry, what brand/modem is the stage box used? Thanks
What kind of camera is that? And how do you keep it charged ? 😊