What VOLUME Should My Live Stream Be? - Make My Live Stream Sound Better - Part 6

[@Antsanc82]

Thank you so much for this extremely thorough explanation. This was very helpful to me and cleared up a few things that were still unclear to me. I appreciate the knowledge and concise explanation.

[@DoroxLP]

Thank you for your High Qualitiy Lessons about Live Streming Soundmixing. I really appreciate your work! ❤

[@Hope4UGlobal]

Excellent as always!

[@richardselvaggi3251]

Gotta say- your videos are awesome! Well done! …And thank you!

[@paulstubbs7678]

In my church we have only one mixer doing both, (and a smaller sub desk for bands to 'do their thing') with quite a bit of compression on the lectern and the priests lapels, as they love to be really dynamic with their delivery. (done by our main Yamaha desk) Bands are a pain, they want to be loud. most of them don't know about/want foldback, and just keep bumping their levels to they 'sound good', either I give them lots of speaker (and less stream feed) or they'll just keep something into clipping. My only means of measuring the feed is the level meter provided by OBS, which also provides a limiter to keep us off 0dB. That bit about LUFS is interesting, I just Googled it and apparently it will work with OBS. Hopefully it'll fit on the already congested streaming PC's monitor.

[@АлександрАртамонов-ф7ц]

Thanks for amazing videos

[@Lightparadise]

Hi. I watch on all your videos and I learned much good things about streaming videos. Thank you .

[@emmanueloladipo4802]

thanks for the vid and every other one in the series ...

[@EqDior]

Awesome Vid. just for those that want to know. an attenuation at around but no higher than 3 is normally not a bad area. if there is anything thats constantly hitting it by itself then there is a possibility that it is to loud in the mix to begin with.

[@brybigdog]

Thanks, helpful series. A possible bonus video idea: a shortened version explaining this to a pastor to help convince him to spend the money on a new computer, software, ect.

[@BallastMedia]

That was kind of my goal for the first video in the series, make the case for why you need an isolated mix. Send that link to them.

[@brybigdog]

Yeah saw the playlist. We are just starting to plan for next year's budget and it's on my radar for sure.

[@AdilTwahir]

Hello Steven! Thanks for your videos which have been really helpful for me. I have a question that you might be able to help with. Imagine I want to livestream on KZbin 24/7, but I want the process to be automated. I plan to schedule all the content in advance, and I'm looking for a solution-like software or a gadget-that can manage the streaming according to the schedule. This is similar to how TV stations have scheduled content that plays overnight without needing constant human intervention. Is there a tool that can assist me in achieving this automated streaming setup?

[@BallastMedia]

You need a video playback server. Take a look at casparCG. There are also many paid programs out there that will do scheduling and playout of video.

[@chriswhealy4170]

Although you mentioned that YT has standardised on -14 LUFS (dBFS), you didn't mention directly that this is a measure of *average* loudness; instead, you used the term "perceived loudness". Strictly speaking, perceived loudness has a specific meaning that is related to what you're talking about, but is not really the focus here (see the Wikipedia entry for the loudness unit "Phon" and Equal Loudness Contours such as Fletcher-Munson) The great advantage of monitoring average loudness is that it allows for your program to have a wider dynamic range. Its OK for your music to go from quiet (below -14dBFS) to loud (above -14dBFS) and back again, because over time, the average remains the same. When our church first started live streaming, I had to learn a whole new way of monitoring loudness. For years, my loudness "truth" was displayed on an ex-BBC PPM meter; but since this only shows instantaneous loudness, it ceased to be useful for live streaming, so after trying some plugins like the WLM Meter you showed, I switched to using an external hardware unit, the TC Electronic Clarity M Loudness Meter (www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176274424790). The radar display now makes loudness monitoring super easy. As long as it's within your budget, I would highly recommend doing your loudness monitoring on an external unit for sevreal reasons. 1) The hardware unit is not in your signal path, it is tee-ed off the signal chain, so latency is not an issue 2) Unless you have a super-wide monitor, screen real estate is at a premium and plugin windows can quickly become a pain when they start to overlap or get closed accidentally. 3) A physical hardware unit sitting to the side of your monitor is always on and always in the same place

[@joslee]

🤔 Hi Steven, after i watching all the series for making the livestreaming sound better, I am wondering is there any simplify setup to achieve the similar quality for my livestreaming in my church? My church does not use DAW system just like you~~ Thanks ya

[@BallastMedia]

The question comes down to, "What is your threshold for considering something a quality mix?" What I mean by that is, yes, for sure there are probably ways you can improve your current live stream mix and make it sound better than it currently may be by using an Aux or Matrix mix and adding some crowd mics to the Matrix, mixing your house with busses and adding compression to your house mix. Adding reverb in your house mix, etc. Those are ways to improve things, but I still think you'll only reach the maximum potential for your sound/mix/quality by having an isolated mix. I do have a video about creating an AUX mix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXPTqWaZd9Noi5I

[@cb5110]

If you use an analog mixer it very difficult. Reasons, it does not have gates, and dynamics or FX you can control. Although some analog mixer carry compressors, and FX, they are fix. You cannot move them to where you want them. If you already have a digital mixer, all these digital mixer model should work (Behringer x32, Behringer wing , Yamaha TF series , or Allen and heath SQ, digico, SSL), Presonus are a bit more difficult, not because it not good, but because it has less FX compare to these units. However the digital mixer may not sound as good though, because it does not have the flexibility as the daw and will depend on your church acoustic. To make you stream loud you do not need a daw, a part from waves plugins, VST 2 will work in OBS, however waves VST3 and other VST 3 will work in Vmix. Wirecast is a bit more tedious.

[@joslee]

@@cb5110 hi my church just upgraded its analog mixer to digital mixer (behringer x32) but the sound from the every sunday livestreaming service does not sound as good as what Steven show in his video… i am looking how to improve my church sound quality~~

[@cb5110]

@@joslee Ok, but your sound will never sound like it because you are not in the same space. However you can set up your mixer to sound good, but it will all depends on you level how fast you can learn or experience and your acoustic space. It not easy as just getup and setting up your mixer, It take experience and knowing the mixer, and it limitation, then planning. The world greatest engineers always plan, prepare and most have a templates. Sometimes it take someone from outside, who does this work well to actual come and setup the mixer. Beyond that, you have to be sure you are competent enough to do this, because you definitely need to know what you are doing, and if you want a pre stereo aux mix or post stereo aux mix. When you make that decision, you would need to be sure you are good at mixing, else get someone who know what they are doing. There are two ways to do a setup, you record the service play back and mix it or you have to get the band to come and play live. The mixer can do some stuff like the plugins in the DAW, like gating/expansion, compressing, the EQ are parametric, buss compression, buss EQing and FX like, de-essing, reverb, delay etc. However the x32 have some limitations. If I remember clearly the x32 has 8 FX, but 4 channel and 4 buss FX. That why I mention you have to plan what you want and know the mixer, if you want to use busses, DCA and matrix, and how you going to use them. Make sure what you listen is a direct source output, meaning no church speakers, get a power box and place it right beside you on aux/main or get good headphones to mix. The reason I am telling you this is you are going to end up EQing your sound base on your old eq setting for your bass bin and FR speakers in a reverb church was done to make it sound good in church, which is not correct, because your input was not change. In other words input equal output. Before you start record any sound, most import your instrument like drums has to be tuned. Else no matter what you do with mixer, the drumkit will never sound good. You will have to decide what you like from the bass, guitar, if you like straight from the DI or from the amps. Drums is the hardest to mix because of the mic bleeds, that why you have to set the gate accurately, compress, Eq and pan (you may pan snare , toms a bit to create space). The rule is never to pan bass guitar, however I have seen it done, Eqing and placement of instruments is up to you. The main singer is always centre but you can pan the background ones. As I mention before is what sound good and works, in your setup. when you done this make sure you save the scene and stick all boxes. So on Sundays if any body did anything, you can recall your template. However I must mention, all depend on your acoustic in your church, if you use monitors for your musician things can get loud and cause problems like reflection hitting your singers mic, that will cause things to sound echoed. That why I would recommend in the future if you do not have it know to invest in-ear monitor for musicians. After you done this you re EQ the church base on what sound good in the church.

[@cb5110]

@@joslee One thing I forget to address, is the misconception that if it work in his church, it should sound the same as mine, no it will not, Example Steven church maybe using Ludwig drumkit, and you have Mapex, the drums are not going to sound the same, same with keyboard, bass, guitar etc, even if you have the similar instrument it still will not sound the same because the room sound will determine the quality been capture. Furthermore some large and mid size churches you hear does not stream live, they are recorded, edit in a DAW and then stream, you can do that as well.

[@keithbusby1572]

Will these plugins work in studio one or can you recommend one for studio one

[@BallastMedia]

Yes, all these plugins will work in studio one.

[@keithbusby1572]

Thanks. I’ve watched all the videos and appreciate all the help. Do you have a diagram of your paths inside reaper. Like from input to master out. The videos help but typically in a hurry on Sunday mornings so I can’t watch and do but if I had a diagram I could follow that would be nice

[@andreylozovyy9123]

HI Steven, how do you mix multiple open mics with Reaper with out muting it?.. Do you use snapshots with SWS extension if you have lots of open mics to manage - or you just use your faders with possible PSE, gates, etc? I have about 5-8, sometimes even 11 open mics at any time that being used to sing or speaking. It is kind of hard to manage those. Any suggestions?

[@BallastMedia]

Have you watched my previous video in this series about routing? Using buses helps a lot because you can mute just one channel and that mutes a whole group of channels. Also, having hardware faders helps as you can use multiple fingers when needing to mute multiple buses. But yes, I have setup the SWS extension to create snapshots and that can be effective as well - you could use something like companion and a stream deck to fire those snapshots.

[@andreylozovyy9123]

That makes sense. Buses is the way to go. Thank you for your videos. It is awesome as always.@@BallastMedia

[@CardsHQCabanas]

Do you do consultations?

[@BallastMedia]

Yes! I offer a few options for consulting, I'd be happy to just do a phone call and talk through questions, or I can also do an evaluation of your live stream audio, all the way through creating a custom template in Reaper for your band. www.ballastmedia.com/consulting

[@hamidkarimioffical]

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