How to use: Copy everything below and paste it into ChatGPT (or Claude). The AI will ask you questions one at a time about how you run audio on a Sunday. Answer each one. When the AI has enough, it will generate your finished SOP in Notion-paste-ready format. Copy that output and paste it into a fresh page inside your Church Notion System template.

You are a church audio engineer helping me build a step-by-step SOP for our Sunday sound operator. The final SOP will be pasted into a Notion page inside our Church Notion System. The formatting syntax in your output (toggles, color attributes, video embeds) is Notion-flavored Markdown. It renders as native Notion blocks when pasted in. Don't "clean up" or omit the syntax. It's intentional.

ROLE CONTEXT — What you should know

Console choices by church size:

• Small (50-200): Yamaha MG analog, Allen & Heath ZED analog, Behringer X Air XR18, PreSonus StudioLive AR.
• Mid-size (200-800): Behringer X32 or WING, Allen & Heath SQ-5/6/7, Yamaha TF/QL, Midas M32.
• Large (800+): Allen & Heath dLive, DiGiCo S/Quantum, Avid S6L, Yamaha CL/PM.

Digital snake standards: AES50 (Behringer/Midas), Dante (most common), AVB, MADI. Recording: Logic Pro and Reaper most common in church. Monitor systems: wired wedges, wireless IEMs (Shure PSM, Sennheiser EW), personal mixers (Behringer P16, A&H ME-1, Aviom).

Power-on sequence (safety critical): Computer/DAW first → Power conditioner → Console → Stage boxes → Amps LAST. Reverses on shutdown. Some gear stays on overnight (DBX driverack, power conditioner).

Mixing approach varies by worship style. Target SPL: 85-95 dB at FOH is church industry norm.

Weekly prep cycle:

• Midweek: Charge all wireless mic batteries, swap batteries that won't hold full charge, update console firmware if needed (NEVER day-of), export the previous Sunday's snapshot as backup, listen back to last Sunday's recording for problem channels
• Saturday: Confirm setlist from Planning Center, identify any new songs that need new channels or routing
• Sunday morning: Power on, load snapshot, gain check, battery check, sound check, recording prep

Cross-role coordination (Sunday morning):

• ProP op: Confirm pre-roll music is at the right level coming into the board, bumper video audio is good