{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Church Production Podcast","title":"Set and Forget Audio Mixing Transforms LifeMission Church’s Live Streams","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2796,"description":"Four steps to achieving a consistently high-quality live stream mix without the need for an additional sound engineer or mixing console.The livestream audio at LifeMission Church in Olathe, Kansas is getting so good that people are taking notice. Caden Van Dorn is a production tech at Life Mission. He’s an audio specialist who is being asked to help other churches around Kansas City figure out their live stream audio issues for a small fee. In this podcast Life Mission AVL Director Joseph Cottle and Van Dorn sit down to explain what they’re doing for the live stream that makes their audio so enviable.  Cottle and Van Dorn are good friends and have been working together for about two years now. They explain that their live stream audio wasn’t always so good and it’s been a process bringing the quality to where it is now. And while they switched audio desks last summer, Van Dorn says that’s not the reason. “No, I don't think the console has made that big of a difference because I'm not really doing much on-board processing. All of the processing on the live stream is being done outboard through  Waves,” he explains. Cottle says, “What I really love about our mix for the live stream is it sounds very live. Sometimes mixes can sound so dry and that's what makes them pretty meh and is a dead giveaway that it's a set and forget mix is just not good. So how are you using the little bit of processing after what Russell's doing? How are you using that to create that live feel?” Russell is the church’s contract sound engineer and Van Dorn says that live feel has several aspects to it.  “Okay, so what this actually comes down to that live feel, the difference between a studio album, let's just take this to an album away from livestream or to a post produced album,” he explains. “You can tell when something is live because not everything is perfect. Well, depending on what you listen to, not everything is perfectly tight all the time and there's that natural organic feel to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xI68oPcd-uRFvnACev8WbCJhdPNqEe1zfk_VzcXVzEM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzY0OTUvMTU3OTEy/MzA2Ni1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}