ProSoundWeb: Thanks to the recent industry “pivot” towards livestreaming, I’ve seen a lot of forum posts, received a lot of phone calls, and talked to a lot of colleagues – mostly in house of worship audio – about how to achieve a successful livestream mix from front of house. Most of them boil down to three main issues, discussed here with my suggested approach for addressing each.
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This article popping up on my feed is very timely because a few nights ago we were troubleshooting the livestream for Greek Sing. For me, mixing livestream is hard when you’re also trying to mix house because levels coming into the board are different than how they sound in-person because of the difference in how actors project and other factors. Working on this event has reminded me of the first time that I worked on livestream audio. I was using the same console for FOH and livestream mix, and just sent everything from the console into the livestream system. That did not work. The actors who were quieter in-person had their headset levels pushed really high, so they sounded crazy hot in the livestream mix. The EQ roughly held, but I quickly learned that the gain and levels were entirely different. The moral of the story is, it might make your life easier to run separate consoles.
As I have continued to take more classes in audio and sound design, I have learned a lot more about frequency response and how different equipment will help your performance in a space or in different situations. I hadn’t thought about how the destination of an audio bus will change how it sounds solely based on the output device. This is super important for live entertainment as being able to send feeds not only to the main delivery system but also to backstage, front of house, stage managers, etc. is just as necessary as the audience audio. The second issue tackled in the article talks about gain staging and noticing when the speakers are handling signals better than another location. What I have take away from this article and the troubleshooting it talks about is that the equipment specs and response are just as important for the mix as the content being delivered.
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