Outside Broadcasting Vehicle Specification
The University's outside broadcast vehicle is a mixed use vehicle with digital vision facilities centred around a Sony Anycast mixer, and surround audio facilities based on the Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixer and Pyramix Digital Audio Workstation. It is capable of recording up to 64 simultaneous tracks of audio and 6 cameras.
The vehicle was custom built by Total Audio Solutions in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, with support from PMC.
It is used for both practical teaching and learning exercises in both multi-camera video and multichannel location audio for students on the following programmes:
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Media Technology
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Sound Engineering
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Outside Broadcast
The vehicle is also used for a wide variety of external activities (crewed by students) including:
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Multi-camera shoots at Glastonbury and Glade music festivals
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Recordings from large scale classical events at major concert halls (see Symphony Hall >>>)
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Large scale rock/pop/dance music events
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Small pub/club gigs in the local area
Unit Specifications
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Vehicle
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LDV 7.5 tonne
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Interior
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Custom box built with acoustic isolation, rigging lighting and air-conditioning. Built by Total Audio Solutions
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System Cameras
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3 x Sony DXC-D55 Widescreen system cameras
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Camcorders
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10 x Panasonic HVX-200 High Definition (1080p)
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VTRs
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5 x Sony HDM25E HDV/DVCAM/DV recorders
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Vision Mixer
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Panasonic AV-HS400 HD vision mixer - 4 HD/SD SDI inputs
Sony Anycast, 6 Channel mixer/vision switcher with web streaming
4 x SDI inputs
2 x Analogue (PAL/S-VIDEO)
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Audio Desk
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Soundcraft Vi6 64 channel digital mixing console with Lexicon effects
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Audio Recording
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Pyramix Broadcast Digital Audio Workstation and MADI interface to Vi6 (64 simultaneous channels from Vi6)
2 x Tascam 901SL CD-R
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Audio Effects
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2 x TC Electronics M3000 Effects Processors
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Sound Monitoring
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PMC TB1 5.1 surround sound with Dangerous Monitor controller
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