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Church live streaming audio setup: from the mixing desk to members' phones

Answer · Updated

Take a feed from your desk's aux or record output into a USB audio interface, plug that into a laptop, and choose the interface as your broadcast's sound source. Turn off speech clean-up (the desk already does it), set levels so the meter peaks below the red, and test before the service.

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What you need

  • A spare output on the desk: an aux send, a record out or a matrix out. A dedicated mix is best, because the room mix is usually too quiet on vocals.
  • A USB audio interface (any two-input model works) and a cable from the desk to it.
  • A laptop with a charger, and the studio open in a browser or AltarPage Studio.

Settings that matter

  1. Under Sound settings → Sound from, choose your interface.
  2. Untick Clean up speech: noise suppression fights music and the desk's own processing.
  3. Choose Worship music quality if you stream the choir; Speech is fine for preaching.
  4. Tap Test sound with headphones, and watch the meter: loud parts should stay out of the red. AltarPage's limiter catches the occasional shout.

On the day

Plug the laptop in, keep it awake (AltarPage Studio does this for you), and go live a few minutes early with music so people can join. If the network drops, the audio waits on the laptop and goes out when it's back.