Built by a sound guy, for the people running sound on Sunday.

Who I am

I'm Matt. I have been mixing live sound for 25 plus years. Restaurants, theaters, corporate gigs, big rooms, small rooms. But the rooms I care about most are the ones I have spent most of my career in: churches. Sanctuaries with a console in the back, a couple of stage monitors, a worship leader who knows the songs by heart, and a volunteer at front of house doing their best every single Sunday.

Why churches

Church sound is hard in a specific way that nobody outside of it really understands. The room is usually wrong. The budget is usually tight. The band is usually different week to week. The volunteer running the board usually wants to do well but has never sat next to someone who could actually show them how. The Sunday service is also not a show. It is a service. The job of audio is not to impress, it is to get out of the way so the room can do what it came to do. I have spent a lot of years learning what that means.

Why remote

The math on a full time church audio engineer does not work for most congregations. The hourly rate for an in person engineer to come tune your room and coach your volunteer once a week is way out of reach for almost every small to mid sized church. So volunteers do their best, and only get to practice on Sunday morning when the whole congregation is watching. Remote coaching changes that. We can show up on a Wednesday night, work the board with your volunteer, save a scene, and disappear by 9pm. No travel, no hotel, no contractor on call.

Why this is not consulting

One time consultants leave you a PDF with EQ curves and a vendor pitch and then disappear. The PDF gets buried in a Dropbox folder. The next time a new volunteer steps in, none of that knowledge is there. This service is ongoing. Weekly or biweekly. Hands on the console. The knowledge stays in the room because it is built into your volunteer, your scenes, and your workflow.

What you can expect from working together

Plain language. I will not talk down to your volunteer, and I will not blow smoke at your pastor. If something is not going to help, I will tell you. If your problem is a stage that is too small for the band, I will tell you that too, even if it means we should not work together. Most of the time though, the problems are fixable with patience, a little structure, and someone in the volunteer's ear who has done this before.

If your volunteers would benefit from a Saturday of focused training, we also offer The Foundations Workshop on site at your church.

If any of this sounds like the kind of help you have been looking for, let's talk.