Church Production LIVE! at 12Stone
TRIBE: Tech Team Summit and Regional Showcase Event at Atlanta's 12Stone Church are designed to help churches learn how to establish a reliable, long-term technical infrastructure and develop healthy, well-resourced production teams.
For the safety of everyone involved this event has been rescheduled for September 25-26, 2017 due to Hurricane Irma.
Church Production LIVE! at 12Stone Church is two events in one: a Regional Showcase Event focusing on 12Stone Church and TRIBE: Tech Team Summit. The two conferences will be collocated and one registration will include access to all sessions.
During the Showcase sessions, attendees will learn how 12Stone Church is reaching greater Atlanta with its eight campuses and will gain first-hand insight into how the church’s staffing strategy and technical infrastructure are efficiently and effectively supporting its growth. As an example, learn how 12Stone manages worship services at eight campuses with just eight technical staff members. The event will be held at 12Stone's newest campus in Snellville, Ga.
TRIBE: Tech Team Development Summit sessions will focus on helping churches maximize the health and success of their on-staff and volunteer production teams with peer-driven presentations from veteran production team leaders, networking opportunities and plenty of Q&A.
The event is sponsored by Digico, Meyer Sound, Arri and Sennheiser.
An Evening with DiGiCo!
Monday, September 25th 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM - included with your registration
Bring your headphones and join us as we dive into advanced mixing techniques in this hands-on mixing workshop led by Ryan Shelton, Digico, Dustin Whitt, 12Stone Church and Brian Poole, Elevation Church. Get answers to your toughest questions and grab the controls of some of the most powerful and popular consoles for church production.
Includes:
- Panel discussion of mixing techniques with Dustin Whitt, 12Stone Church, Atlanta, Ga, Brian Poole, Elevation Church, Charlotte, NC and Ryan Shelton, Digico
- Demonstrations of vocal processing, dynamic EQ’s, compression for drums and bass, and more
- Hands-on mixing time with Digico SD9 and SD12 consoles with virtual sound checks
One-on-one Q&A and instruction with panelists and other church sound engineers
Schedule - Tuesday, September 26th
8:00 AM On-site registration and badge pickup (light refreshments served)
9:00 AM General Session: Vision vs. Execution: 12Stone's Production Strategy Revealed
10:15 AM Virtual Soundcheck
10:45 AM General Session: Next Steps in Production Team Development
11:45 AM Lunch & Learn: Choosing a Mixing Console Platform (lunch provided)
1:15 PM Breakout Sessions
- Lessons in Audio: Selecting the Right Console and Loudspeaker System
- Solutions for Better IMAG and Mulitsite Video
- Embracing Change
- Set-ups for Success
2:30 PM Breakout Sessions
- Choosing the Right Digital Audio Network
- Intro to Sound System Design
- Rethinking Your Position
- Church Production and Ministry
- Style Guides
3:45 PM Breakout Sessions
- Consistency Across Loudspeaker Designs for Multisite Venues
- Wireless System in High Density Environments
- Worry Less, Worship More
- Beyond Basic Training
- Taking Your Organization to the Next Level
5:00 PM Wrap up - Door Prizes
General Sessions
Vision vs Execution: 12Stone’s Production Strategy Revealed
Consistent technical excellence is a goal for any church. Creating a strategy to make things easier for volunteers is vital. Learn how 12Stone church standardized its technical infrastructure and created a training, communications and management plan designed for maximum effectiveness and minimum stress for its production team members. Includes a “virtual sound check” demonstration of the production capabilities at the church’s Snellville, Ga., location. Presented by Dustin Whitt, 12Stone Church.
Next Steps in Production Team Development
12Stone’s production team development strategy is working, but it’s certainly not the only successful approach. Join this group of veteran church production tribe members for a rousing panel discussion, including audience Q&A, on production teams strategies for technical excellence, intentional ministry and healthy relationships. Panelists include Justin Firesheets of Church of the Highlands, Birmingham, Ala., Brian Poole from Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC and Dustin Whitt of 12Stone Church.
Lunch and Learn
Choosing a Mixing Console Platform
The choice of mixing console can have ramifications far beyond sound quality and ease-of-use. Learn how to select a mixing console based upon a careful assessment of your church’s entire audio network, including its current and future needs. Presented by Ryan Shelton, DiGiCo.
Regional Showcase Breakout Sessions
Lessons in Audio: Selecting the Right Console and Loudspeaker Design
How and why using the same digital mixing platform and loudspeakers across all your venues and campuses can help you quickly learn, train, grow and adapt. Presented by Ryan Shelton, DiGiCo, Chris Moore, Daniel Rivera, Meyer Sound.
Solutions for Better IMAG and Multisite Video
Lighting for video is a distinct discipline with elements that may not be obvious to theatrical or concert lighting designers. Join Randy Read from Arri for a comprehensive session on how to achieve better looking video for IMAG, filmmaking or content distribution to video venues. Presented by TBD.
Intro to Sound System Design
The primary goal of sound system design is to evenly distribute sound to the listening audience at the appropriate volumes. However, it can quickly become overwhelming implementing the tools available to effectively achieve that goal. This presentation will lead participants through an overview of common loudspeaker types and how they are implemented in different sound system design applications. This presentation will also provide an overview of low frequency array types. Presented by Chris Moore, Meyer Sound.
Consistency Across Loudspeaker Designs for Multisite Venues
One of the challenges of multi-site churches can be creating consistency across multiple campuses. By standardizing equipment, you can create systems and workflows that help foster volunteer team growth and ensure high production standards. Presented by Chris Moore, and Daniel Rivera, Meyer Sound.
Using Wireless Systems in High-Density Environments
The expectations for wireless microphones and personal monitoring systems have never been higher. And their operating environment, especially in cities and other high-density situations, has never been more cluttered. Join us for a session on frequency coordination and wireless system design. Presented by TBD.
Choosing the Right Digital Audio Network
Discover the ins and outs of Dante, MADI, Optocore, Waves Soundgrid and AVB digital audio networks for church audio systems. Learn how choosing the right network can help future-proof your church sound system, improve compatibility with existing gear and avoid unnecessary cost, downtime and headaches. Presented by Ryan Shelton, DiGiCo.
TRIBE: Tech Team Summit Breakout Sessions
Church Production and Ministry
You were likely hired for your technical or creative skills, now you find yourself in a position of discipling and pastoring. Join this peer-led discussion and learn how to turn your tech department into a media ministry. Presented by TBD
Embracing Change
Debunking negative ideas about change; seeing change as a natural progression to something better. Presented by Justin Firesheets, Church of the Highlands.
Worry Less, Worship More
Learn how improving your team structure can free volunteers to do their best; putting the experts where they are needed. Presented by Dustin Whitt, 12Stone Church.
Rethinking Your Position
Why ‘what got you where you are’ won’t always ‘get you where you want to go’; how sometimes God works in spite of us; learning that no system is sacred. Presented by Justin Firesheets, Church of the Highlands.
Taking Your Organization to the Next Level
How to assess the good (and bad) about your organization; ways to improve organization to help production quality, team culture and ministry effectiveness. Presented by TBD
Set-Ups for Success
How do you know you’re choosing the right gear for the right reasons? Do you know what drives your gear purchasing decisions for your church? Learn how to choose equipment that will help create consistency and support your church’s vision. Presented by Chris Baker, 12Stone Church.
Style Guides
Production experiences deliver a brand. But how do you find your church’s creative identity? How do you balance an individual's artistic expression and create consistency for the church attendee? Presented by Brian Hernandez, 12Stone Church.
Beyond Basic Training
We all know that technical training is necessary, but how can we take things beyond the basics and help volunteers understand what they are doing and why they are doing it? Learn how to take training beyond the technical realm, developing leaders and empowering volunteers. Presented by Mark Smith, 12Stone Church.
Presenters
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Chris Baker, Audio Director - 12Stone Church
Chris Baker is audio director for 12Stone Church. He trains and coaches all of the audio engineers at 12Stone.
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Justin Firesheets, Production Director - Church of the Highlands
Justin has served as production director at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Ala., one of the largest churches in the United States, since February 2009. Before that, he spent six years working in the sports broadcasting industry. Justin is responsible for the management of production systems, volunteer teams, and equipment at the church’s 16 campuses. He is passionate about teaching leadership development, systems management and topics of personal growth to those in the church technology world. He lives in Birmingham with his wife and two children.
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Brian Hernandez, Production Designer - 12Stone Church
Brian Hernandez is the production designer for 12Stone Church. He leads the team that creates the production experience for the church’s weekend services.
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Chris Moore, System Design Engineer - Meyer Sound
Chris is a System Design Engineer and Consultant working extensively in pro audio and live production applications. He holds multiple degrees and industry certifications in sound engineering, audio-visual design, programming, and installation. As a System Design Engineer with Meyer Sound Labs, Chris has designed systems for shows and venues around the world, including spectacle shows, cruise ships, stadiums, arenas, houses of worship and world tours.
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Brian Poole, Director of Live Production Technologies - Elevation Church
Brian Poole is director of live production technologies at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. Each of Elevation’s 16 locations, as well as other external events, operates with audio, video and lighting systems that Poole designed. On the weekends, he’ll be found at the front-of house mixing audio at Elevation’s main campus.
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Daniel Rivera, Sales Specialist - Meyer Sound
Daniel is Global Sales Specialist of the House Worship Market at Meyer Sound in Berkeley, Calif. He works with Meyer Sound on house of worship projects for all denominations and venue sizes. Before Meyer Sound, Daniel served for 10 years as the Production/Technical Director at Oasis Church in Hollywood, Calif. Daniel and his family currently attend Hillsong Church Los Angeles where he serves on the audio team.
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Ryan Shelton, Sales and Support - DiGiCo
Having served and worked with churches as a volunteer (BPC = Before Planning Center), with a design build integrator, as a manufacturer’s representative, and as Digico’s U.S. Training Instructor, Ryan possesses decades of practical, hands-on experience on how to best equip, train, and grow a team of staff and volunteers.
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Mark Smith, Regional Production Director - 12Stone Church
Mark Smith is a regional production director for 12Stone Church. His responsibilities include supporting three campus production teams and making sure everyone is properly supported, equipped and cared for.
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Dustin Whitt, Production Director - 12Stone Church
Dustin Whitt is the Multi-Campus Production Director at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Ga., where he leads a team that serves the church’s eight campuses. Dustin and his wife, Esther, have two boys, Anderson and Grason, and a daughter, Charleston. They love spending time on the lake and riding 4 wheelers and dirt bikes in their spare time.
Tuesday Schedule
8:00 Registration, Badge Pick-up, and Refreshments
9:00 General Session: Vision vs Execution: 12Stone’s Production Strategy Revealed
10:15 Virtual Sound Check
10:45 General Session: Next Steps in Production Team Development
11:45 Lunch and Learn: Choosing a Mixing Console Platform
1:15 Breakout Sessions
2:15 Breakout Sessions
3:15 Breakout Sessions
5:00 Wrap Up and Door Prizes
Registration (lunch provided)
Early Bird Rate: $69 ends 8/31
Advanced Purchase: $89 ends 9/22
Late Advanced/On-Site: $99
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