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The Studer Compact Remote Bay in action.
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WESTMINSTER, Colorado — Colorado Sound Recording Studios is
one of the finest facilities in the state. The studio and its remote truck have
recorded artists including Norah Jones, Eminem, Steve Miller, Dave Matthews and
many others. Recently, the HARMAN Soundcraft Studer truck rolled into Colorado
Sound with the new Studer Compact Remote Bay and its latest Virtual Vista software
for its first-ever use at a recording session.
The Compact Remote Bay allows access
to a Studer Vista digital mixing console’s settings from anywhere in a venue. A
little larger than a laptop, the unit has 12 P&G faders, 40 rotary controls
and a 19-inch touchscreen running Studer’s Virtual Vista software. In addition
to remote operation, the bay may be used to extend the main console’s control
surface for a second operator, for monitor mixing or for other functions.
“We used the Compact Remote Bay to
record a studio session band to allow Colorado Sound and HD NET and the Mobile
TV Group who were also at the session to put the Compact Remote Bay through its
paces,” said Rob Lewis, Director of US Sales for Studer. “We put the Compact
Remote Bay in the recording studio’s tracking room and interfaced it with the
Vista 9 console in the truck to record the piano, bass and drums session band.”
Three stereo headphone mixes, a 5.1
surround and a stereo control room mix were created, all going to the Vista 9
and the Compact Remote Bay with a Studer Stagebox connecting the recording
studio feed to the truck via fiber cable.
“As we were getting recording and
headphone levels, we tweaked the musicians’ headphone levels with the Compact
Remote Bay. Of course everything was really being adjusted via the Vista 9 on
the truck, but the Compact Remote Bay made things a lot easier since we could
get immediate comments from the musicians and tweak everything right in the
room without the need for talkback from the control room in the truck,” Lewis
noted. “It worked flawlessly.”
“After we tracked the band we just moved the Compact Remote Bay from the
tracking room into Colorado Sound’s main control room and patched in the stereo
mix,” Lewis continued. “This allowed the engineers to use the bay and have a
feel for the setup’s overall sound quality, dynamics, EQ and so on from the
comfort of their control room using their main studio monitors. They were
astounded by how we were able to do this without effort, and how easy it was to
make patch changes and snapshots without missing a beat.”
HARMAN (www.harman.com)
designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment
solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets — supported by
15 leading brands, including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®,
Lexicon® and Mark Levinson®. The Company is admired by audiophiles across
multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the
venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today
are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce
of about 13,900 people across
the Americas, Europe and Asia, and reported net sales
of $4.4 billion for year ended June 30, 2012.
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