The tech director of a church that has 1200 attendance, does way more than just run sound. These days it involves a pile of skill and knowledge, social and managerial skills, etc. etc. etc.

If you haven't been to a church of that size in the past 10 years, just make a visit to a service.

It's a big difference compared to even 20 years ago.

Knowledge of MIDI, DMX, USB, various networked digital audio and video protocols for distributed audio and video and In Ear Monitoring systems, wireless audio protocols, recording technology, scheduling volunteer software, and so on and on, are necessary to technically run church services in churches that size. Troubleshooting all of the above also part of those positions.

In a side job, I do A/V training for churches that are 1/4 to 1/2 that size meeting in temporary locations. I get $500/weekend for doing that training, and I don't have to know all of the stuff I listed above.

Discussions as to whether this is necessary should go into a different thread or just not happen.

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