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“It felt louder this week.” Now you can check.
A shared record of your room’s sound level, for the pastor, the worship leader and the sound team. Live Sound Levels measures the room during every service and keeps the numbers, so you can see how loud it was and which way it’s trending.
How loud was it? Is it going up? Is it going down?
Simple questions for any pastor or staff member. Sound is hard to remember, and until now there has been nothing to look up.
Live Sound Levels keeps the numbers, so you can check.
How loud is it right now?
Check from your seat. No walk to the booth, no note passed to the console. Your phone shows what the room’s microphone is reading, the same number your sound team sees.
If your church has agreed on a limit, Live shows where you stand against it. If it hasn’t, Live simply reports.
One reading can’t tell you how loud it was.
The level changes with every moment of a song. An average tells you how a stretch of the service added up, and loud moments count for more than quiet ones.
- Right now
- What the room is doing this second.
- Last minute
- This song.
- Last 15 minutes
- This part of the service.
- This service
- The whole morning.
Was it louder this week?
Every service is saved as numbers, beside the ones before it. One look shows whether this Sunday was different, and by how much.
When one Sunday stands out, like October 4, you can see it and ask what was different that week.
The difference is what matters, not the raw number. 1 dB is hard to hear. 3 dB is small but clear. 5 dB is a change most people in the room would notice.
- Oct 2588+1 dB
- Oct 1889+2 dB
- Oct 1189+2 dB
- Oct 492+5 dB
- Sep 2789+2 dB
- Sep 2089+2 dB
Compared with this sample church’s six-month average of 87 dBA.
Are we slowly getting louder?
Nobody votes to turn it up 5 dB. It can happen one Sunday at a time, too gradually for anyone in the room to notice. Six months on one screen shows you.
Sample church. For scale, 3 dB is a small but noticeable change.
If you run sound
It measures the room, not your mix.
It can’t hear your mix and it doesn’t grade one. You keep every fader. What you gain is a record of every service and a clear view of how the room is trending.
Slow and Fast show you the moment. LAeq adds it up, so one Sunday can be compared with the next.
If you’re the pastor, this matters for you too. The person at the console is often a volunteer who gives up part of every Sunday. Live Sound Levels describes the room, not their work. It’s a record for the whole staff, not a check on anyone.
A, C and Z weightingFast, Slow and LeqPeaksRTAWaterfall to 1/12 octaveCalibrated measurement mic
What it won’t do.
Tell you the right volume.
Your church decides that. This reports what the room did.
Record your service.
It keeps levels only. No audio, no conversations, no music.
Speak for every seat.
The microphone measures one spot. How the mix feels in row twelve still takes listening.
Promise anything about hearing safety.
A level reading alone can’t establish that.
What it takes.
- A measurement microphonePlaced in the room.
- A computer running the meterIt sends readings up during the service.
- A phone or browserFor anyone your church invites.
Built to run on its own. Once the microphone is placed and calibrated, there is nothing for a volunteer to start, watch or close on Sunday morning.
What it costs.
- The subscription
- $59 a month
- Live levels and every service saved, for anyone your church invites.
- The equipment
- $499 one time
- Paid once, when you start.
That’s $558 to start, then $59 a month.
Fair questions.
We already have a meter at the console. Why would we need this?
That meter helps one person, right now. This one reaches your whole team, remembers every service and separates the music from everything else. If yours already does all that, keep it.
Volume only comes up a few times a year for us. Is this worth it for that?
The record is the point, not the question. Every service is saved whether anyone was wondering or not, so the week it does come up, the answer is already there. A slow drift over months is also exactly the thing nobody notices until it has gone a long way. Whether that is worth paying for is what the pilot is for.
Who can see the readings?
Only the people your church invites, such as sound staff and leadership. Readings describe the room over time. They don’t evaluate the person mixing.
Will it tell us when we go over a limit?
Live shows where you stand against any limit your church sets. It’s off by default. Alerts that reach people on their phones are planned.
What equipment should we plan for?
The equipment is a one-time $499. You’ll get the supported hardware, placement and calibration requirements before you decide. There’s no need to buy anything to join the waitlist.
When can we start, and what will it cost?
It’s $59 a month, plus a one-time $499 for the equipment. Pilot dates aren’t set yet. You’ll have them before you decide anything.
Find out what your room actually does.
We’re preparing a pilot with churches. Leave your email and we’ll send the dates and the equipment list when they’re set. Then you decide.
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We’ll email you about product progress and pilot availability.
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