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Red Rocks Production Playbook [Jesse O' Brien]

Red Rocks Production Playbook [Jesse O' Brien]

Update: 2025-11-24
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If you increase your skills, can you get by with lower quality gear?


Jesse O’Brien joins us this week to reveal the Red Rocks playbook for stretching a gear budget and still delivering excellent production quality.



In this episode you'll hear: 

1:00 – Toby crawls under the stage to fix church AVL integration issues
7:30 – Jesse O’Brien from Red Rocks Church joins the podcast
9:00 – How Jesse got into church production at Red Rocks Church
12:15 – The production gear Red Rocks Worship brings on tour
17:25 – Inside Red Rocks’ broadcast campus gear + setup
21:15 – How Red Rocks Church maximizes their production budget
23:20 – The best way to save big on your church tech budget
30:00 – Do speaker brands actually matter for church sound?
36:45 – Doing church production when expectations exceed budget
40:00 – Using event budgets to get new gear approved
44:00 – Disaster story: When the broadcast feed goes down
49:45 – Church Tech Takeaway
53:30 – Church Tech Confessional



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Red Rocks Production Playbook [Jesse O' Brien]

Red Rocks Production Playbook [Jesse O' Brien]

Toby Walters [Church Tech Advocate]