The A Team at BAMM consist of Phil Lang, Jerad Fox and me, Sonia D. Pina. Together we have successfully created a studio at our new location, recorded some great indie bands, and even created a fully functioning stage and studio at the conference center at SXSW. Of course all of this has come out of some crazy ideas and creative minds, the best example of that being our studio in San Francisco, California.
We knew that to feel confident in inviting any type of band into our studio that we would need at least 16 channels. Even though we had a lot of different equipment to start with (Mac Pro, Digidesign 003, Digidesign 002, Apogee Ensemble, Mackie 1604 VLZ3, Korg D888, Phonic Helix Board, M-Audio BX5a speakers), we were faced with the limitations of our hardware. In other words, we weren't about to spend 100k on a 24-channel Neve board. After a couple playing around with all of the ins and outs, limitations of pre-amps, specificities about Phantom power, and still keeping in mind we wanted 16 functioning channels, we made it work by utilizing 3 of those consoles mentioned before—the 003, Ensemble, and the Mackie. I would have never thought mixing those three pieces of hardware would make a cohesive workstation, but it sure does!
Now, when we a stage where bands can play, a snake that takes the inputs from the stage into the studio room, and sub-snakes to communicate between the three consoles. All those channels get recorded onto our computer. Then, last but definitely not least, we send a feed of our mix live to the TriCaster for live streaming. End product? A mixed audio feed during the live, multi-camera broadcast, and all channels recorded to be mixed later. Seems so easy writing it now, but believe me, this took all of our training and experience to put together.
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The TriCaster allows us to shoot multi-camera productions live and take the audio feed straight from the Digi 003.
Keep tuned folks. There is a lot more awesome content on its way.
Chao!
Sonia
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