Audio Training
We are currently in the process of reworking Mars Hill Church’s audio training. Please keep an eye on this page for new sections as they become live and ready. The old content, titled “Audio Slaves: Mixing for the Crucifixion,” is still posted online for the current time being here. As we build the new training information, if you have any information you would like to see here, please contact us.
The Production Technology (ProTech) Department has worked with both worship pastors and production managers at various campus to establish a training method which will work for the majority of campuses. The training is broken down into a number of different levels, or tiers. The thought being similar to building a house. If you just build the walls and not use a foundation, the walls will eventually fail, causing the roof to come tumbling down. The audio training has been broken out into the following levels:
- Audio 100 level – the foundations of audio: everything from the Physics of audio and terminology to gain structure
- Audio 200 level – the sound technician: Who is the the person mixing? What is expected of them? How do they get to worship?
- Audio 300 level – the equipment: What equipment is the Sound Technician using? How does it operate?
- Audio 400 level – mixing: How to use the equipment is various situations
- Audio 500 level – mentoring: At the campus grooming of the Sound Technician. This includes refinement of the person’s mix.
ProTech will be the primary provider of training for the 100, 200, and 300 levels, primarily through this website. The campuses and worship departments will be the primary provider of the 400 and 500 level training where it gets into the artistic side of how the mix is put together. This break down was determined based on the campuses having a better understanding of their own bands and the sound the bands are trying to create, and ProTech having a good understanding of the equipment and fundamentals of the systems. ProTech will continue to be involved in the 400 and 500 level training but in a secondary role.
ProTech has a 24 channel hard disk recorder, with a couple of bands prerecorded on it, which can be used by the campuses when they desire to do mix training. The final tier is done at the campus level – mentor training. This training is done by the audio lead at the campus, or other qualified person, and teaches the specifics of the campus sound system(s).
Here is the fundamental training content:
Audio 100 – Foundations
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Audio 201 – The Sound Tech
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Audio 301 – Equipment
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Audio 401 – Mixing
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Audio 401 – Mixing
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Here are the syllabuses from each training tier: