Our Approach to Audio Training

With the launch of this website, will also come the official launch of our online audio training.  Part of the joy of having standardized equipment across all campuses, is the ability to train centrally.  Training centrally means that all volunteers can attend the training that is most convenient to them, while it is still applicable to them, at their campus.

At Mars Hill Church we believe there are three levels of training, foundational, functional, and artistic.  This website will provide for the foundational level of training.  Foundational training is what functional training and artistic training all build on.  In my time at Mars Hill Church the majority of the troubleshooting questions I get are due to a lack of, or forgetting, the foundations of audio.  This forgetting of the foundations is what has driven me to write this curriculum and implement it.  I have taught this material live in a classroom twice (about every 6 months), which works for those that can drive to me.  However for those that can’t drive to our central offices, and still want the training, we want to make this available online.

We generally only do functional training at the time campus and system install/launch.  At this time we train all existing campus volunteers, and the staff member responsible at the campus.  We then will focus our training efforts on making sure the staff member responsible has a functional knowledge to be able to operate, and continually train any new campus volunteers.  (After they have gone through the foundational training curriculum.)  On this website we will also be posting quick start guides and campus manuals which will also help serve as online training for functional training.  From there the Worship department takes over the audio training, for any artistic training that may be required at the campus level.

We want to help out as many people as possible in our training efforts.  Of the material here on this site, some of it is taylored to the systems at Mars Hill Church and our campuses, but a lot of the content applies to any sound system.  In the coming months we will be figuring out how to put the classroom teaching of this content online.  We are also planning on creating short videos focusing in on different equipment and systems.  Feel free to ask us for any specific training and will try to add it to our training pages.