My name is Chris. I am an audio engineer and photographer based out of New Jersey. My primary audio work is in live sound at a local music venue as well as home studio recordings.
The content you will see on this channel is mostly audio related, but I will sometimes show other aspects of my life.
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OMG! They need some help bro!!!!
Yes, that’s why I was there.
The floor tom on that kit actually sounded good to begin with, and the rack toms weren't nearly as bad as I expected. I've heard FAR worse. I'm glad you set them straight with the drum mics, though...an SM57 placed below the snare trying to catch kick and snare is never gonna sound full, and they didn't know how underutilized their mic kit was given that they left the Beta 52 in the case.
My church needs some work on the sound system like this bad
Hero...love your effort Man. God bless
As someone whos worked on analogue, digital, and hybrid systems I understand the advantage of each. I just wanted to ask quickly if youve ever heard of a mixer with a fully analogue signal path but digitally controlled automation? I feel like that would be the ideal system right?
Analogs point is to not have digital automation. I use a Tascam model 24 to record. Nice warm analog sounding pres with full digital conversion.
I liked the story of professional services while peaking on master. Lmao
The finished mix is peaking between -18 and -12. What are you talking about?
@@chrishammillaudio12:20
Notice how I’m doing something else far more important, like making sure their computer is working right? Can’t troubleshoot a computer and monitor a mix at the same time. The master isn’t going to the house. There’s a separate stereo bus that’s going to the house, which I showed setting up and sending signal to it, and that bus is not peaking. Again, the FINISHED mix is at the end of the video, peaking at -18 to -12. There’s going to be times where signals get hotter than they need to be when I start tweaking shit. You literally have 20 more minutes of video to see the mix get dialed in.
14:56 needs to be a commercial for Apple lol That man obliterated windows 😂😂😂
What headphones are those?
EX29 plus.
Come to Washington state
I’d love to.
All those bands loading in and loading out putting in all that effort only to play in front of a few people, ya really gotta love it... \m/
It’s for the love of the craft.
Who's ideas was it to play the mix ? Oh my I can't watch this. Listening to it gave me headache
Then don’t watch. Bye.
@chrishammillaudio I'm not youtube stupid algorithm recommended
Cool. Thanks for the comment and engagement allowing this to be promoted more via the algorithm. 👍
When I was doing sound contracting, I used to tell the church leaders. "The primary purpose of your sanctuary is to communicate the word of God. Pew cushions are nice and so are the pretty stained glass windows and the organ. But IN HERE, the most important communication is from the ministers mouth to the ears of the congregation. Your sound system is in between those two things.If your sound system distorts, you are literally DISTORTING THE WORD OF GOD! That usually closed the sale! I didn't tell them that I am an atheist! They didn't have a need to know that. But it kept me in a good living for 24 years! I guess God provides, one way or another?
I hate these POV vids, they'd be super interesting but it makes me sick watching them for more than 2 minutes :(
Okay.
Hi, i want you for Hicksville church
Email me.
@@chrishammillaudio where what's ur email
This is cool, glad I came across this channel
that was fucking awesome!!! you sure lived and breathed that bitch for a long time though!! probably a week?
Took a couple weeks to go from beginning to end.
I think God should have you by His side for Judgement Day 😂😂
very excited to see the finished product!!!! ONWARD to the next video!!
22:42 "What is reverb?" I died.
The problem is after getting things perfect there is a whole week between services for someone to go in and screw it up while you are not there.
Yes, that’s why I saved my settings on both the board and a flash drive.
Fascinating, high-stakes work! Also, I think there's more soul in the singing there than I've heard in many years, good on ya!
you're quite literally doing god's work out there man lol keep up the good work
as a worship bassist, thank you for telling him to cut that reverb off.
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13:29 what is that bass thats playing in the background?
A bass guitar
@@chrishammillaudio i know its a bass gutair but whos playing it? it it something from next door?
@@MaragiMusic The Bass player.
ok i see, thank you for replying
A good set list and stage rider is so helpful, even the names of the musicians to call them by name during soundcheck!
Nice video. Thanks for showing this. Raises questions so far ;-) I’m mixing metal and Rockbands like this shown in a local club with about same size. My challenge is always the harsh cymbals. As we should keep it maximum loud by about 95dba by law, the cymbals often kills the sound… how loud was that show? Did you have a measuring? How about a video killing the harsh cymbals? Did you had an overhead? I saw you had mikes on toms, about 5-6 channels for the drum set?
I have overheads hanging from the ceiling but I use those only for my stream. Can’t really do much for cymbals unless you have a drum shield or one of those chambers, but most touring bands kits are as big as the riser and wouldn’t fit if I had one of those chambers. I don’t really measure the show but I’ll check the DB level on my watch.
Does every church own the same mixer??
No
this feels like a kitchen nightmares episode lol
i hate windows so damn much couldn't pay me to go back
Team new edge V6. Really nice ride.
Sold this. Now I’m team S197 3V
@@chrishammillaudio those are fire. Especially the 2007 shelby gt
What headphones do you use? You mentioned passive noise canceling. I run a small console for our church, and my biggest challenge is mixing the stream while in the sanctuary. Our sanctuary is small enough that acoustic guitar and piano can often hold their own without reinforcement. So I struggle with "am I hearing the mix or the raw sound".
Direct Sound EX29
@@chrishammillaudio Thanks! (I just figured it out - switch to 4K and zoom in at 8:49 🙂)
ain't no way manz said “This delay is so long, it took Jesus less time to rise from the dead” 😂😂 I'm shleep
I'm still learning a lot. We have Yamaha TF3 board. I'm mainly a bass player, and doing multiple things. We have pro presenter. I've been using my amp.. it's a hartke lh500. Been using monitor, not in ear yet. My di will send dry mix to the board. Getting started on live streaming
So you're making content about zeroing the desk and starting over? TLDW
*you’re
this channel is sick, thanks for such detailed content
he has a HEart
Awesome man! This is really great, you're a master at this. We're going to be playing live soon, hopefully our sound is good. Any tips? Especially for someone like the vocalist who is a quieter singer in terms of the style
Listen to the sound guy, show up on time, don’t rehearse on stage and don’t turn up/down your amps after the sound guy checks your levels
@@chrishammillaudio Cheers Chris, thanks a lot for your input!
I'm the audio engineer at a larger church, and I switch FOH with my oldest son so I can be on stage sometimes. I've considered keeping a mic in the booth, but I can't hear the house well when I'm singing. Your work is good and quick. Great job! You go into a church not knowing how the system is set up and you have to learn the system before you can dial it in. So we were streaming before Covid, but it wasn't paid much attention to. When it hit, the traffic on our stream increased dramatically and attention was paid to the quality. Whoever had set ours up before I took over had placed hard compression as a limiter for the final mix signal and it sounded terrible. It's the kind of thing for example where when the vocalists sing the drums decrease in the mix because the compressor pushed them down. We had a second console handling the stream, which was also going to a local radio station. I took the compressor off of the output and dialed in the compression for each channel. Then I taught the stream mix techs how to keep an eye on the send level. It makes a world of difference.
Imagine a dude with an x32 demanding to be taken seriously.
Says the guy with no content and a cringe tagline like “suicide is the correct choice”. 😂 Pathetic worm.
ho ho ho ho I guess you're gonna be moving to Linux, azamat user I've been getting fed up with Apple. The latest thing is whenever you plug-in something you have to approve it I haven't updated yet, I am not looking forward to it. I'm seeing this on other people systems. We're going through a bit of a messy time with operating systems being to in the way or to dumb user conscious.
Not moving from OSX anytime possibly ever.
The drummer is in a plexiglass prison?! If you don't want to hear the drums' actual sound, why bother? I've never seen weirder music than what non-denominational churches do.
You hear the actual drum sound, from the mics picking up their sound. What would be actually weird is if we do nothing to help separate instrument bleed. If these “plexiglass prisons” are good enough for national touring acts, they’re good enough for a church. Stop being over dramatic.
My dream to become a FOH engineer. One day i will be one❤❤
Watching from the UK. What an amazing bloke Quincey is. Sound, video, streaming, singing all at the same time. Wow!! His face when he heard the mix which probably sounded the way he had always hoped it would was great. Do you ever add in a little of the congregation audio into the mix. We have found that this really helps with people at home feeling part of the service rather feeling like they are watching a performance.
The at would require a room mic. They don’t have one.
@@chrishammillaudio Yes. I understand that you can only use the kit that is available at the time. BTW. Saw another of your videos where you were finding drum mics and coming up with a solution to the stream audio using a focusrite scarlet they had hidden away. Great problem solving on the fly.
Such a cool job and series! I've never done any mixing, but its satisfying to see how you turn it around. Thanks for showing us what you do!
In my experience, Windows absolutely caused problems for me, no matter the hardware. It was always a frustration doing hardware configuration on Windows. Mac systems are more expensive, but everything works out of the box.
Exactly my point.
I know a quick fix mute both of my uncles singing 😂
😂
so the delay is on her vocals full time and your just boosting her level to showcase the moment... 20:24
That’s correct.
Chris, you can make anyone or anything sound good!!! now that I have advanced my home mixer into the Digital era it's really cool to learn stuff from you!! *** I want to record my TD20 / 50X drums and play around w/ that CQ-18T A&H (New toy)