| Windows frightens me to death, Macs at Grammy's |
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| Written by MacChick | |
| Friday, 08 February 2008 | |
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According to Joel Singer, the audio engineer in charge of the Grammy Awards on Sunday, “”Macs play a large role in putting on the Grammy’s. It takes a lot to put on a production on the scale of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. To present the annual music industry honors to the attendees at Los Angeles’ Staples Center and to home viewers on CBS, show organizers use more than 450 microphones, 155 tons of lighting, 13,000 amps of power, 19 video screens, 94 speaker cabinets—and an endless amount of Macs. You may have assumed that Macs played a large role in putting on what has become the largest audio production on television. But until you sit in on a rehearsal for the telecast, as audio engineers are hard at work mixing the 35 songs that will be performed during Sunday’s ceremony, and see how extensively Macs are involved in the process, it’s hard to fathom just how central the Mac has become to the Grammys. Every piece of audio from the Grammy stage goes out to one of two remote mixing and recording trucks located behind the Staples Center. The main truck cost in the neighborhood of $750,000 to build, and it’s about as state-of-the-art a setup as you’re likely to encounter. During Thursday’s rehearsal, it was easy to lose count of the number of Macs in the production truck. But there are 14 Macs on board, according to Joel Singer, audio engineer in charge for XM Production/Effanel. That includes MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, G5s, and a G4 capturing video from the stage. Singer said that the Grammy production team has always used Macs to produce the show’s audio, and it will continue to do so. To read the rest of this story click here.
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