We offer two types of remote support at Landen Park Studio, which we’ll discuss in turn here. (Note: a previous version of this post described the Sonifex SY03 TBU, and the CleanFeed software. We no longer support either of these.)
Source-Connect
Landen Park Studio is a Source-Connect 4 Studio facility. This allows us to connect directly to other studios and to voice talent with Source Connect software anywhere in the world. Source Connect allows full-resolution audio to be shared and transferred between multiple systems with no loss of audio quality.
Zoom
For a lot of our voiceover work, Zoom provides a easy way to connect remote producers into the session. It’s important to note that this is only a solution where (a) the talent is physically here at Landen Park Studio and (b) full-resolution audio can be uploaded post-session to the client.
We set up the Zoom connection on a separate computer which is linked to the main studio computer and patched into the cue system. The remote producer, local engineer and talent can all communicate with each other and, thanks to Zoom’s ‘studio quality’ modes the remote sound is very good indeed.
We also optionally send and receive video. This allows the remote producer to see either the talent or the local engineer and vice-versa or, when we’re working to picture, the main video. We use this to great effect when we do our regular sessions for Channel 4’s A Place In The Sun.