Live music has been in Tall Audio’s DNA since its inception, having started out producing Virgin’s long-running Acoustic Sessions on its first ever job, and although the company still delivers music content out of the box, the company’s client makeup has markedly changed over the last 15 years.
Delivering more immediate user feedback, the upgrade helps Tall Audio cater to an increasingly fragmented broadcast market and a growing number of OTT broadcast customers. UK sound specialist Tall Audio is meeting the changing needs of its client base with a fader tile upgrade to its 32f Solid State Logic System T console in its Sound Mobile 2 production unit. Purpose-designed to deliver full 7.1.4 immersive content, the company says the ability to switch out the Solid State Logic desk’s S300 fader tiles with S400 tiles gives its operators even more direct channel information on the control surface, helping them cater to a wider range of OTT clients looking to engage their audiences in more immersive ways.
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Founded by sound supervisors Alex Wrigglesworth and Paul Stadden in 2010, Tall Audio work on a diverse range of productions including The Martin Lewis Money Show, Springwatch for the BBC, a host of film premieres and remote and in-person motorsport events for TNT Sports. The company also has a reputation for high-end broadcast and OTT music clients, including Amazon and Apple Music.
“System T gives us the flexibility to achieve all this,” says Wrigglesworth.
“We set everything up in advance and on the day, we were effectively just rigging mics rather than building a whole new OB truck and multitracking.”
“Meanwhile, System T makes monitoring in 7.1.4 very easy. The fact that you can assign any channel, any aux, any stem and any bus as immersive is so flexible. We use Audio Technica’s BP3600 immersive microphone as an extra mic and System T natively receives this in a 4.0.4 channel. It is so intuitive and easy to manipulate that it lets us concentrate on mixing rather than worrying about assigning resources to use immersive formats, and the downmix parameters are very easy to adjust.
“When you are under time pressures and everything is about being more efficient, these things make it much easier to do a better job.”
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