Immersive Mixing, Brownouts, & Blackouts [Community Bible Church's Eric Allen]

About this episode

The episode discusses the value of immersive audio for churches and managing production in a growing multi-site congregation with insights from Eric Allen of Community Bible Church.

Is the hype around immersive audio actually worth the massive investment for your church? And how do you keep your production and worship teams united when your church is experiencing explosive, multi-site growth? In this episode, we are joined by Eric Allen, Audio Engineer at Community Bible Church (CBC) in San Antonio. We start by unpacking what it takes to manage production across a rapidly growing, multi-site congregation, including exactly how CBC bridges the gap between the worship ...

People in this episode

Host: Toby Walters

Guest: Eric Allen

Topics covered

• immersive audio
• church production
• multi-site growth
• worship teams
• audio engineering

Keywords

• immersive audio
• church production
• worship teams
• multi-site
• audio engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Community Bible Church

Places: San Antonio

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