The Church Sound Podcast with Prentiss L. Thompson

Our guest Jon Taylor is Technical Sales Lead at Presonus. The CSP crew engage an a solution based discussion around Presonus products and how it applies to a church of any size and its growth. We discuss Live-streaming and manufacturer fulfillments in 2021 centered around the new world of Covid-19. 
So sit back grab a cup of joe and Listen, Laugh and Learn. 

Listen to the top 3 tips for Pastor from a audio engineer.  Sometimes leader and audio team are not on the same page. This can cause frustration and this could lead to larger issue. Take a listen and pass it on.  

This episode will cover the questions the church will have or should have for a audio engineer from the Praise and Worship singer, to the church musician and a Pastor when looking to hire a full engineer. take a ringside seat and Pastor Caleb interviews Prentiss L. Thompson as a perspective candidate. Listen, Laugh and Learn.   

What are the top three tip for a church musician?  Music is a essential part of 
a church, the songs bring people into the arms of God and the musician has a huge part in the connection. Listen, Laugh and Learn as Prentiss L. Thompson breaks down his top three tips.

Prentiss L. Thompson provides some insight from a engineers perspective. Listen to a few audio tips that could help all praise teams and singers.   

Training a usually last on the list at most churches, however it is very important.  The question is not why you need training it’s how to get training. Listen, Laugh and Learn as the CSP crew talk through a few solutions. 
The definition of ‘insanity’ is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 

Training options: 

-Purchase a course for the staff

-Hire an engineer - to mix and train 

-Collaborate with another church 
-Take an online course

- Attend a training conference

The top three tips a church engineer need to provide an awesome worship experience.  These are important tips and trainings for all audio staff engineers. The application of these tips can and will transform the sound of your church. 
1- Line Check

2- gain staging

3- EQ and compression 

Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning 

it is the process of defining, selecting, designing, collecting, analyzing. in other words:
Where is my church now  - Where is my church going - How do I get there
What should the church evaluate?

Worship  - Praise Team - Musicians - Audio Video Live Team - Equipment - Preaching / teaching - Security - Special events

Order of Service - Length of service  - The approach to giving

Prentiss L. Thompson explains third party digital snakes. These snakes can work with any console whether analog or digital. However they require two components, an input box and a output box. Listen and Learn.  

Frank Brown Jr. the lead engineer at Agape Family Worship Center he is considered your favorite engineer's, engineer.  From CNBC, W.N.E.T., MTV, VH1, ESPN, SCI-FI Network, Access Hollywood.  He started touring as an audio engineer for hip hop artist such as Zhiggie, Grand Puba, Onyx, SuperCat. After seeing his work, R&B artist such as Joe, 3LW, Imajin and Destiny’s Child hired Brown to work on their tours. 

From TV, to Touring to the church this a of man great knowledge as he breakdown the art of being a problem solver.