Faith Mission Sound

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The streaming setup info is at /project140/streaming/.

Cheat-sheet for setting up sound at the Faith Mission

Aim to get there at 8:45am (keyholder gets there at 8:40am).

Focus on getting the gear you need out of the trailer

  1. The trailer has sound, projection and music stuff on the left, and C4K/Creche stuff on the right.
  2. Focus on getting the sound gear out; or more specifically ignore all the C4K stuff.
  3. Specifically hunt for the radio receivers. 
  4. Also hunt for a second pair of hands who knows at least something about AV gear who can help you get to the critical point of the band being able to rehearse

Focus on enabling the musicians to get started:

  1. Power on radio receivers and ensure batteries are inserted and charging.
    1. Use any old power socket. You'll move it later.
  2. Place 2 trestle tables at the back wall for the screens to sit on.
    1. Do this early as you can then put stuff under without having to double handle things.
    2. Lay out the clear boxes against the back wall, short end-against the wall.
    3. Watch out for red-herring boxes, e.g. there's 2 guitar pedal boxes you not need and the Cajon (drum box)
  3. Plug two 4 gang power strips into the wall sockets at the back left of the stage.
  4. Find the SD16 stage box. Place it near the back of the stage on the left, near the step.
  5. Feed the SD16 a power cable.
  6. Connect at most 4 P16-Ms into any Ultranet port on the SD16 (musicians can do this). P16-Ms receive power over ethernet.
    1. If you need more than 4 P16-Ms, you'll need to connect the P16-D into any Ultranet port on the SD16 stage box, and connect the remainder into the P16-D
    2. If you try to daisy chain them, they won't daisy chain the power, so you'll need to power them separately.
  7. Set a table out for the sound desk. It sits just in front of the storage door about 7 rows back
  8. Set out the sound desk
  9. Feed the sound desk a power cable from the magic crate (which the projectionist has hopefully found by now) and power it on
  10. Put the PC snake into the desk:
    1. Output 1+2 to feed a mix to the PC
    2. Input 1+2 for audio from the PC
    3. Ethernet into the Remote port
  11. Load the default scene which should have reasonable starting gains for the channels
  12. Connect your phone to the X32 WiFi (Password Carrubbers@FM - or possibly carrubbers@FM). You'll have no internet, but should be able to control the desk using the app
  13. Plug the end of digital snake cable on the drum into the X32 sound desk in AES A port.
  14. Unwind the cable drum back towards the stage
  15. Connect the short Ethercon cable from the drum to the AES A port on the SD16

If all equipment connected so far is now powered on, the musicians can start their setup. Wire up the instruments. Once they can hear themselves, progress to the speakers.

  1. Place the sub to the left of the stage
  2. Add a power extension cable to next to the sub
  3. Feed the sub a power cable
  4. Connect the subwoofer to the SD16 using 2 x XLR cables
    1. sub channel 1 input to SD16 Output 7, and
    2. sub channel 2 input to SD16 Output 8
  5. Place the two speakers on stands in line with the sub, just to the extremes of the screens. 
    1. Screens go as central as possible so speakers aren't pushed too far to the edges (trip hazard).
    2. But try to protect sight-lines to the screens from those sitting at the walls.
  6. Connect the combined power and XLR cables to both speakers.
  7. Raise speakers on the stands up to the red tape
  8. Run thick combined power and XLR cables back to the sub connect:
    1. Left speaker to sub channel 1 output, and
    2. Right speaker to sub channel 2 output (the sub takes care of the crossovers)
    3. Set the gain on both speakers to about "11 o'clock"
  9. Move the radio receivers to the front left of the stage.
  10. Connect radio receivers to SD16 inputs 13-16 using short XLR cables which are cable tied together
  11. Put batteries into both hand helds and one tie clip
    1. Radio 1 on stand for podium
    2. Raido 2 on platform in front of radio rack for children's talk/interviews.
  12. Put an SE300 on a tall stand next to the sound desk.
    1. Point it 45 degrees to the ceiling (too sensitive to point at congregation)
    2. Wire it into channel 1 it arrives in chanel 17.

Hints:

  • Be extra careful with our kit while out the building. I’d suggest always putting the hand held radio mics on a stand, so they don’t end up on the floor.