I case you are interested in checking out our stream, we are on YouTube (among other platforms) at:
https://www.youtube.com/@st.nicholas9163/streams.
Nice! You're coming along pretty well too.
We shift our space around based on the church season and the number of people we are trying to fit into the space. Therefore, the location of the sound booth (and the altar and musicians) moves around, and I don't want to have to reroute SDI or HDMI cables every time we adjust the layout of the worship space.
What *is* your space? When you finally get to the wide shot (good storytelling, by the way: close shots for a while to keep me guessing, then reveal later), I see corrugated siding, two roll-up garage doors with the projector in between, and what look like a permanent-mounted projector and camera together.
For a while, we had a different church meet in our building on Sunday afternoons, that grew up meeting in a school. They had all their own gear, and loaded in and out every Sunday. That included a quite capable A/V rig! The school decided to repaint as the Covid lockdowns were easing up, and kept them out for that.
They never used all of their stuff while they were with us - they used most of ours and added some of theirs to it - but I did see that their "custom closets on wheels" had several large reels of Cat-5 and coax, with RJ-45, Ethercon (RJ-45 inside an XLR-size shield), and BNC. X32 on a cart, and S16 in the portable rack that they put on stage. They also had a formalized and trained setup and teardown team.
Don't know if that would fit your mold or not, but based on what I saw from them, if you're running cords anyway, you might as well run the good stuff.
By the way, I am impressed with your stream. I like how you move around from camera to camera to keep the live feed interesting. I will probably try that as well.
My major technique is to minimize camera movements while live. *Sometimes* I'll break that rule, like to follow someone or to make minor framing tweaks, or on a rare occasion, gently pull or push, but that's about it. I especially don't like zipping to a new center while the zoom isn't anywhere near caught up yet. I have before, manually set the zoom and then hit the preset while the zoom is still running, just to give it a head start. That looks a *little* bit better to me, but still not great.
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I'd enjoy continuing to share ideas with you.
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Our audio is compressed hard! In several stages. Then brought up to full-scale as the USB line input sees it. You might make a valid argument for killing the "live" feel, but that's the broadcast standard that viewers expect. Here's the scene file that gets pushed into our X32 when it appears on the network. (after a 2-hour timeout of being off, so a brief power hiccup doesn't wreck it!) And one of the Sunday morning scenes that builds heavily on it.
You might notice that the final output level is about -12dBFS peak, according to the settings, and that's because our line input uses the consumer standard whereas the X32 uses the pro standard line level. About 11dB difference between those. So it *is* actually full-scale coming into OBS...or -1dBFS, which is pretty close.
Matrix 1-2 are our Broadcast Master.
Matrix 3 is our Lobby and Hearing Assistance. (broadcast minus room mics)
Matrix 4 is our PA Center. The 60Hz highpass is for woofer protection without subs. Set by ear with pink noise, right on the edge of making an audible difference.
Matrix 5-6 are reserved for a possible PA Left-Right that we don't have yet.
Matrix 5 is temporarily a stage fill that is normally kept off/muted.
FX 4 is an approximation to this trick to try and avoid feedback on a speaking mic:
ESP Project Pages - Frequency shifter for acoustic feedback reduction
sound-au.com
About 17 cents seems to be about right for our specific room; your room might need something slightly different. DO NOT USE IT FOR SINGING!!! ;-)
It's really for special events run by people who have no idea how to handle a mic, and they're not going to learn now. It allows an extra 5dB or so before feedback, in exchange for a slightly odd sound if you pay attention, but still easily intelligible. We don't use it for Sunday service at all.
It's only an approximation because the pitch shifter that the X32 actually has, is a multiplier, while the linked analog project is an adder like it really should be.
FX 1,2,3,5,6 are available for general use
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Thank you for all you do for Harvest Ridge and this OBS community as well.
Jeremy
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