Lesson Description
The Praise Band scene on your TouchMix
8m 18s
The Praise Band scene is a great place to begin when setting up your mixer for your church service.
Video Transcript
The Praise Band scene on your TouchMix
8m 18s
00:15
The TouchMix comes with several factory installed scenes.
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These are are very helpful, as you can load a selection of common presets for a base band to get your mix set up even faster.
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One of the default factory scenes is the “Praise Band” scene.
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If you just pulled your TouchMix out of the box for the very first time, then pulling up this scene is an excellent place to start.
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To access this scene, press “Menu” and then select “Scenes”.
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Or, from the Home screen, you can press this square here that says, “Scene.”
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Now on the Scenes page, under the factory choices, choose “Praise Band.” Then press the “recall” button.
01:03
The praise band default scene was especially created for a standard House of Worship scenario
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which can then be tailored by the user to accommodate their church’s and praise band’s specific requirements.
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Let’s start by looking at our 4 banks of input channels across the top.
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Our first band Inputs 1-8, include our drum inputs.
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Our second bank, 9-16, include and input for percussion,
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bass, 2 stereo keyboards and 2 electric guitars.
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Our third bank inputs, 17-24,
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include 2 acoustic guitar inputs, 2 male voices, 2 female vocal with a handheld mic and headset mic for spoken word.
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The fourth bank includes stereo inputs which are set up for a computer,
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a click and background music.
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The record fader is set at unity ready to record your service.
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The input channels in the praise band scene have already been preloaded with QSC’s world class instruments presets,
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including EQ, dynamics and FX.
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So, without changing any channel parameters,
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your praise band and spoken word will sound great right out of the box.
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This bank here titled “FX masters” is already pre-loaded with the FX.
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The master faders are already set to nominal levels
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and the individual instrument channels are also set at nominal levels and sending signal to these FX buses.
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Over here on the far right are DCA faders
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where multiple channels have been grouped into 1 fader.
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So if I wanted to turn up, let’s say, all of the backing vocals,
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I could just use this “backing vocals” DCA fader.
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If I wanted to turn down all of the drums, I would use this “drums” DCA fader to turn all of the drum channels down at once.
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Now let’s look at our output channels on the left of the screen.
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Your main mix outputs will always be shown at the top left corner.
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The first 6 Auxes are set up for floor wedges for your band.
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Aux 7 and 8 is a stereo broadcast mix that you can send to your livestream.
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Aux 9 is a mix that can be sent to the cry room.
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Aux 10 is a fill loudspeaker that might be used in the entrance or perhaps an outside seating area.
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Aux 11, 12, 13, 14 have been set up for stereo in-ear mixes for your drummer and bass player.
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Now, most churches will not follow this template exactly
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so, let’s make some changes to our default praise band template and customize it for our church.
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Let’s look at inputs 1-8 which is our drum inputs.
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Our church drum kit doesn’t have rack toms.
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We’ve decided to clear these channels and leave them available for other instruments in the future.
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Touch the title of Tom Rack 1.
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In the overview tab, touch reset.
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All the parameters have been set back to 0.
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I’ll use this next arrow here to scroll over to the next channel, Tom Rack 2, and then touch reset.
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Now press the home button to return to the main mix window and press inputs 9-16.
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Instead of a percussion mic here, our church would like to change that to a djembe preset.
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So I will touch the title, then choose presets,
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choose the percussion category, then touch djembe, then press recall.
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When I return to the mix window, we see that channel 9 is now a djembe preset channel.
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Channel 16 is a 2nd electric guitar but our church doesn’t have a 2nd electric guitar player.
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Instead they have a violin player so we will enter in a preset for a violin.
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Touch the title. Touch Presets, Then touch strings, then fiddle,
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And since our violin player is using a pick-up we will choose the preset “fiddle bridge pickup.” Then touch recall.
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When we return to our main mix window we see that channel 16 is now a fiddle channel.
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But we would like to change the name to violin. Press the title, Press set up, and then type violin.
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You will want to update your DCA groups if you loaded new instrument presets.
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When you load a new instrument preset that channel will automatically be unassigned from any DCA that it was previously assigned to.
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But in this particular scene, we will want to add these channels back to the DCA marked BAND which includes ALL of the instruments.
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Press DCA groups. Press band and then select the 4 instrument channels that you loaded presets for to be included in the band DCA.
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Now let’s change some of the names of our Aux mixes.
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There are a few ways to do this. Make sure the “main mix” square is highlighted blue
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then touch Aux Out 1-8.
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Touch the title of the 1st aux titles left front monitor. Then touch set up.
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We will rename that “keyboard monitor".
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Now let’s say we wanted to rename the second aux, worship leader.
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Touch the next arrow here and then change that title to “worship leader”.
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Now let’s change aux 10 which is titled fill to a new title.
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On the left of your screen touch Fill, aux 10. Then go over to the title above the master fader and select it.
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Make sure set up is selected and then retitle that “courtyard.”
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Once you’ve made changes to the factory praise band scene,
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you’ll want to be sure to save it as a new name so you’ll be ready to go, the next time you need this scene.
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Touch this box here that says "Scene". Touch “save as.” I’ll title this scene “our church”,
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but feel free to name your scene whatever makes sense and is appropriate for you. Then touch save.
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Alright, Our church’s scene is customized and ready to go.
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Thank you for watching and I will see you on the next video.
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The Praise Band scene on your TouchMix
8m 18s