This wiki is for Makati Gospel Church's [MGC] Global Worship Service's [GWS] Tech Team.

To serve the church by providing excellent audio, visual, and lighting support, ensuring the Gospel is clearly seen and heard.

Core Values for team culture:

• Excellence, Not Perfection: The goal is to do the best with the resources available, minimizing technical distractions so the congregation can focus on the service.
• Servant Leadership: Technology is a tool for ministry, not a stage for performance. The team operates behind the scenes to elevate the overall worship experience.
• Continuous Equipping: A commitment to training and mentoring volunteers, ensuring they feel confident, supported, and spiritually fed, rather than just being used for tasks.
• Adaptability: The readiness to troubleshoot calmly under pressure and pivot when live services don't go exactly as planned.

The Allen & Heath SQ5 is a Digital Audio Mixing Console that allows you to plug in multiple audio sources - like microphones and instruments - adjust their individual volume and tone, and blending them together into an audio output such as speakers.

In the Top Panel, marked as (1) are the

• Touch Screen
• Screen Select Keys
• Screen Encoder

View processing and access the routing and setup menus using keys below. Touch to select a parameter and use the rotary to adjust values.

The SQ-Editor is a free Windows and Mac application that allows you to manage, configure, and mix your Allen & Heath SQ console both offline (for pre-show preparation) and online (as a hardwired “second screen” at FOH) over a TCP/IP network.

The SQ MixPad is a remote control mobile app for Allen & Heath SQ series digital mixers that allows engineers to adjust the FOH mix or monitor levels from an iPad or Android device normally over a WiFi network.

Here are some basic but key Audio Terms to help get started.

• Front of House (FOH) Originating from theater tradition, where FOH refers to “In Front of the Stage” or where the audience (the “house”) resides
• Back of House (BOH) In theater BOH refers to the stage, the back stage, and other technical support areas.

Below are the recommended minimum check list:

Important: Loud Speakers should be turned on last to avoid the loud damaging sudden power thud.

When turning On the entire Sound System:

1. If the breaker is turned off, ask to have it turned on by the school General Services [GS]
2. Check that the Speaker Power Sequencer is Off
3. Check that the Delay Speaker Amplifier is Off
4. Turn on the Mixer and WiFi Power switch
5. Turn on the Mixer pressing the Power Button in the Rear Panel (26)
6. Login to the Mixer
   • If you do not have access check with the Tech Head
   • Optionally login to your SQ MixPad
7. Select and Enable the Startup Muted Scene
   • Press the Screen Select Key: Scenes / Select the Startup Muted Scenes / Press the Go button

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The Power Off Sequence should leave the Mixer in the Shutdown Scene. All the Input channels and the DCA's are muted and the faders are turned all the way down. This serves as a redundant mute.

The Startup Muted Scene will bring Vocal and Instrument faders up to Unity 0db and serve as a constant starting point before every event.

Never assume, always check. Avoid the pain.

One by one, confirm that Inputs and Outputs are wired correctly and working.

1. Check the Speakers
   1. Play music
   2. Check Delay Speakers, move Matrix 1 fader as needed
   3. Check FOH Speakers
   4. Check Sub Woofers
   5. Stop music
2. Check the Inputs
   1. Check the vocal mics and instruments one by one making sure that correct mic is in the correct input channel. ie. The “Blue Mic” is in input channel 1

Gain is not volume

Setting the gain correctly is the single most important step in live sound and recording because it dictates the overall health and quality of your audio signal from start to finish.

Gain controls the strength of the raw audio signal coming into the mixer. Properly gained audio is loud, full and clear. If the signal is too weak, not only is the volume too soft, but more static noise or hiss will be heard. If the signal is too strong, the circuitry can not handle the signal and the sound waves are chopped causing a hard crackling distorted sound known as clipping.

Adjust the GAIN level signal so that the (10) Main Meter just starts to hit yellow.

• The Screen Select Key: Processing should be selected
• Select the input channel
• Turn the Preamp / Gain (4) knob

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If an Input Channel's configuration needs to be reset:

• The Screen Select Key: Processing should be selected
• Select the appropriate Input Channel
• Press the Library button (17)
• Under Input Channel, Select User
• Choose between:
  • 0 Vox Wired
  • 0 Vox Wireless

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Important: Loud Speakers should be turned off first to avoid the loud damaging sudden power thud.

When turning Off the entire Sound System, reverse the Power On Sequence:

1. Turn Off the Delay Amplifier
2. Turn Off the Speaker Power Sequencer
3. Shutdown the Mixer
   • Press the Screen Select Key: Processor until the Shutdown option appears.
   • Press Shutdown on the touch screen
4. Turn Off the Mixer and WiFi Power Switches
5. Inform the school's General Services [GS] so they can turn off the circuit breakers

1. On the Screen Select Key: select “IO Patch”
2. On the Left Side: Select Inputs
3. Click Library
4. Select “2026 USB” and recall
5. On the Screen Select Key: select “Utility”
6. Select SQ Drive
7. Select Multi Track
8. Select a recording and play

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RTA - Real Time Analyser

Listen with your ears and not your eyes.

Cut vs Boast

Library for praise team and speakers

Organized by how often they are used.

Prefix 0 is reserved for the Praise Team as they since most Sundays

Prefix x is reserved for Pastors and Speakers

Prefix 5 is reserved for Emcees

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A DI box ensures your instruments sound clean and professional by converting their noisy, unbalanced signals into balanced, interference-free signals that can travel long distances to the FOH mixer without losing quality.

An unbalanced signal is an audio transmission that uses only two conductors—a signal wire and a ground wire—making it highly susceptible to picking up hum and electromagnetic interference over cable lengths longer than 15–20 feet. ie.: Guitar PL Instrument cables, 3.5mm stereo cables.

A balanced signal uses three conductors—two carrying identical but inverted copies of the audio and one for ground—to automatically cancel out noise and interference picked up along the cable run.

[Roland JDI]

An IEM (In-Ear Monitor) is a professional-grade earphone used by musicians and vocalists to hear a personalized, clear mix of the band directly in their ears while blocking out loud stage volume and ambient noise.

Using IEMs drastically reduces stage volume and “noise bleed” into the congregation's area, allowing the FOH volunteer to create a much cleaner and more pleasant mix for the audience.

[Behringer P1]

it has a power plug :) no need batteries. built like a tank.

[KZ IEM]

great budget high value earphones

• Use “Loud Speakers” when referring to audio output speakers to avoid confusion with people who speak such as the pastor.