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Behind the stream: building the Sunday signal
A practical look at the systems behind a weekly broadcast — audio routing, lyrics and live signal flow.
People see the stream. They don't see the hour before it where everything either becomes reliable or becomes a problem.
The pre-flight
- Gain-stage every mic.
- Confirm the lyric source is live, not a cached page.
- Run a 30-second test record and actually watch it back.
The through-line
Whether it's audio, video or a presentation engine, the job is the same: carry the signal. Everything else is decoration — and decoration is what fails under pressure.