Transforming a Worship Mix from Good to GREAT feat. James Attaway

Hi how can I keep the volume at 80-88 db? How to limit the volume? Thanks

Great video!

What would be a good way to take a home recording and make it sound like a live worship sound, as if it's coming from a PA and some kind of realistic, natural, large room sound without sounding like standard reverb?

That Ray Romano and Harry Kane bit got me 😂

Woww amazing lesson. Im from indonesia so excited to watching you both. I took a lot your tricks. Thank you so much, God bless you all 🙏

Absolutely loved this. Thanks gentlemen.

Before and after

Listening and doing some work, when the second guy started talking at first thought was Barack Obama

Close to useless without examples

Yes, Harry Kane, that's it! Been thinking about who he reminds me of. It's Harry Kane

How can my church hire you to come fix our sound

I love James’ advice on EQ “Cut narrow, boost wide”.

Excellent video but the body language from the dude on the right is just terrible. James is giving him great information and he looks like he’s dying to get home for lunch.

I love all the tricks or tips, I will put them in our church asap.!.!.! I will follow you James too. Thxs for your time.

Holy crap I looked up Harry Kane and Jake looks just like him 🤣 that’s awesome lol

Amazing guys. Thanks for the tips. There is no stopping on learning. No matter how much or less there is always things

Talk about it...You resemble Harry Kane...wow

Thanks for this guys. I agree the external feedback is very important. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for sharing. Appreciate that.

Def Ray!!!!!

Ngl, I question the eqs of the lav mics they use. James mic I was hearing an upper mid frequency that was kind of distracting to me. Sometimes the mixes and eqing sounds great but sometimes they don't. I guess I am just really critical lol

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This is an awful video. Basically no audio examples and they ones that are there are useless.

sir make video of analog sound.

The Harry Ross show

Thank you guys! This was insightful. Keep up the good work!

This was so special to watch. Thank you to you both and may God continue to inspire you more.

Only just saw James stuff yesterday...reaaaallly good stuff James.

Once again reminding us in essence to use ears :-) AND get singers to have great technique (like Eivor...let the musician respect mic tech as part of their instrument and become responsible)...this is so important ;-) Having the mixer manage dynamics is not ideal; this is the craft of the band. Getting the singers to respect by not whispering during sound check is important although some do without realising but others with intent...get what I mean...the responsibility needs to be in growing in professional attitude and actions despite most being volunteers.

Just some points; the HP is DEFINITELY better applied less aggressively with an LF down for the actual prox but HP is really just about RT60 low end bleed mic bleed issues as far as I have found in live music

We do need to take in account context...if you have a minimal band setup, a 24db shave of the bottoms of a bass/baritone male will destroy it (lower fundamentals start at 80hz).

For really moving forward in various situations we need use great reference tracks and play them in the venue...eg for difficult male vox as just described I use Jack Johnson "Sleeping through the static"...this is one one of the best ways to become confident in choices and top end works like this are super solid in getting amazing live mixes; no bottom end HP hacks and it sounds amazing and full

Would be great to tut/highlight using sidechain for compression for context...this is the REAL game changer for sub/bass and voice, acoustic guitar and also takes complete care of solo space
A good thing to use is a note/freq/time reference sheet eg 20ms attack (depending on model constants/release etc) is pretty much G1. This is from a spreadsheet I use where you can see, the 20ms is a whole period of approx 50hz, as it descends lower it will progressively reduce the openness of the notes below it, so the sub will allow 1 full 'pump'/period of the bass and the kick is similar but this is why sidechaining is the next step in getting a punchy and uncluttered foundation

Note/Oct Note Num Freq Frequency ms
G1 31 49 48.999 20.41


Measuring the nodes in the room will let you know what you are really trying to control in the lows so tightening may be directed more towards eg 40hz etc

What this tells us also, is that in the low end eg 200 - 400 slices removed for the keys is really going to create bumps and is where broad cut is actual more important because you are moving the whole range of left hand playing mud basically over 1 octave where its more like 2 for most keys players...single frequencies might just create more issues and on top of this, compromises have to be made based on key and actual instrument resonance as James was mentioning.

BTW if you are still getting plosives on a live mic...its time to change to something that is properly engineered in regards to pop protection.

Great presentation!!! Really good

I'm totally guilty of starting to fuss when James was high passing through 150 hz, but he's making an intelligent decision and his reasoning makes sense. Every room is going to sound different which, ultimately, dictates how we make our mix decisions. Thanks for the food for thought!

Hello from Singapore. Both of you are legends! Thank you for your content. It has improved my church sound by lots!

omg when you said Harry Kane I can't unsee it!

What electric drum module are you guys using?

James is a cool guy!!!

shout out to pedals the musical :-D

12 or 24 db at 250 Hz makes the male vocal sound very thin! I would go for a better vocal performance with a better microphone. RE 20 or SM 7 would my go too for reducing proxmity effect. 40 years for broadcast voice work is my background for great sounding voice.

Would this work with non-worship stuff?

So many little changes... but none of it is relevant at all without being able to HEAR the difference those changes make... as you make them. It's going to be completely different for every source/band out there. I think that if you do this again, it would be much more useful to run some recorded rehearsal or something through the system so the changes have context! ...IMHO of course ;)

Harry Kane 💀😂

I love how Jake sees the sound ministry as a thing for the Church of God and not his alone. I have seen him team up with other guys and it's a good thing. I personally like James and his videos. Am glad to see you two together. I sent James an email some time. Still waiting for his reply.

Just for yalls future videos with all respect Can yall please play a before and after sample of every instrument. Too much talking and not enough playing with samples sounds etc.
We are in 2021 not in 2010 anymore.

I love the fact that he’s wearing a “Pedals: The Musical” t shirt! 😁

This is a superb video. Wish I could give it a double or triple like.

Lol i see it now. harry kane 😂 great video

This was a true Masterclass.

Hey Jake, great videos. The light in the background what light is that?