Sunday Morning Setup

Here are all the things that have to be done on a Sunday morning before the worship team arrives for practice at 9:00 AM. Thanks to Jacob Jones for doing all this while I wrote done what he was doing.

1. Unlock doors
2. Turn on lights
3. Check temperatures throughout the building
4. Pull out sound equipment
5. Find lapel microphone, charge batteries
6. Set up keyboard ( stand, keyboard, bench, connections )
7. Remove any extra tables or other furniture from stage and front area
8. Set up microphone stands for instrumentalists
9. Set up music stands for instrumentalists
10. Position monitors
11. Set up guitar stands, put extra stands in corner
12. Hook up microphones, narrow necked EV mics go on stands for musicians
13. Hook up instruments, Silver box ( GND LFT ON, One Filter )
14. Write down microphone numbers for sound board operator
15. Test microphone levels ( adjusting trim to get green signal blinking, no red signal )
16. Test keyboard levels
17. Get video equipment out, adjust keystone, adjust screen size
18. Put music stand in corner for Mike to use for the message
19. Put sound equipment cart away
20. Move lights away from the screen
21. Turn down guitar levels until they arrive
22. Point speakers at aisles
23. Fine tune sound settings

I'm sure that I am missing something. You should plan to complete this in an hour. If everything goes just right, it might be faster.