Certification path · 2–3 hrs practical
Capstone & Final Exam
Put it all together: full service readiness checklist, final exam, and a personal operating manual you can hand to any teammate.
Learning objectives
- Complete an end-to-end preflight for a live service
- Pass the final exam at 80%+
- Publish your one-page runbook and input list
- Identify your next 30 days of deliberate practice
Service preflight (print this)
- Wing online; AES50 link/clock solid
- X32 GOLD scene loaded; USB backup present
- Wing↔X32 input list matches stage
- Line check complete on both desks
- Wing gains set at performance level; X32 meters healthy
- FOH (Wing) monitors/room stable
- X32 stream mix balanced for online
- Stream bus limited; iD14 clean
- Vimeo/encoder input confirmed
- Phone viewer assigned
- Spare vocal mic/cable ready
- Hearing protection available at FOH
- Transitions mute plan reviewed with stage manager/WL
Deliverable: your operating manual
Create a short document (Google Doc is fine) with:
- Signal flow diagram (Stage → Wing → AES50 → X32 → iD14 → Vimeo)
- Wing↔X32 input / AES50 map
- DCA/mute group map on X32
- Stream routing notes + gain change protocol with FOH
- Go-live checklist
- Emergency contacts + spare gear locations
When someone else can run Sunday from your manual, you have leveled up from “the only person who knows” to professional systems thinker.
Next 30 days
- Week 1: Fundamentals + gain structure only — no new toys.
- Week 2: EQ + dynamics deep practice on multitracks.
- Week 3: Stream mix polish; A/B against a reference church.
- Week 4: Lead a full service (or section) with a mentor/phone viewer and post-critique.
Industry truth
Employable engineers are calm, consistent, and documented. Flashy EQ moves are optional. Reliability is not.
Video tutorials
Curated watch-list. If an embed is unavailable, use the YouTube link — then come back and do the lab. Watching without the lab is only half-training.
This module is hands-on — use the labs and your board as the primary teacher.
Prove it
Module quiz
Need 70% to pass
1. Your GOLD scene is the…
Why: Protect the working show file like production-critical software.
2. Which set is the best professional priority stack?
Why: Pros earn trust with solid signal and clarity before polish.
3. A teammate should be able to…
Why: Documentation multiplies ministry capacity and marks you as a pro.
4. Wing/room sounds fine, Vimeo is distorted. Most likely?
Why: Room OK isolates the problem to the stream half — or shared Wing preamp clipping the AES50 feed.
5. The real goal of this academy is…
Why: Craft + character + consistency = professional.