Notes from the studio floor and the gallery on equipment, cameras, acoustics, lighting and the routines that keep live programmes on air.
A new article appears about once a day, written by the people who fit out and fault-find live studios. Topics run from signal flow and camera positions to room treatment and failover checklists.
Acoustics
A practical walk through measuring a studio room, finding where noise and reflections come from, and choosing treatment in a sensible order so speech stays clean on air.
Continue readingEquipment
Questions worth settling before a gallery build is signed off: signal flow, intercom, monitoring, documentation and spare capacity, so the system stays dependable once live programmes depend on it.
Continue readingCamera Systems
Priya Nair walks through the camera setup errors she meets most often in news and interview studios, from lens choice to operator preparation, and the habits that prevent them.
Continue readingLighting Costs
A plain look at how a lighting design and rigging job is priced, from fixture count and grid height to colour matching and the time needed to focus and document the plot.
Continue readingCustomer story
A short account of one regional news team and how a rewritten run sheet, a rehearsal routine and a failover checklist changed their live bulletins over a few autumn weeks.
Continue readingTraining
Short days, new presenters and holiday schedules arrive together. Tom Whitcombe sets out how to plan hands-on crew training and a clean handover before the busiest broadcasting months.
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The noise floor is the quiet level a room never drops below. Priya Nair explains how it is measured, why it matters on live shows, and what lowers it.
Continue readingEquipment
A plain comparison of routing everything through a central router against patching straight into the vision mixer, with a clear recommendation for studios planning to grow.
Continue readingBehind the scenes
A look at how a camera package is chosen, positioned and signed off for a live studio, from the first site visit to the day the operators take over.
Continue readingLighting
The question we hear most on site visits, answered by our senior engineer: how many fixtures a presenter desk or interview set needs, and where each one earns its place.
Continue readingWorkflow
Part two of our look at Production Workflow Planning: how we build rehearsal routines and failover checklists so a live programme stays on air when a source drops or a cue is missed.
Continue readingHandover
Training and handover rests on a few plain materials: written procedures, fault logs, labelled spares and rehearsal sheets. Here is what we leave with your crew and why each item earns its place.
Continue readingAcoustics
Before anyone orders panels or books a measurement visit, a few questions about your room, your programmes and your budget will decide what treatment is worth doing and in what order.
Continue readingStudio Integration
Most gallery faults trace back to a handful of avoidable decisions made during installation. Here are the common integration mistakes we meet in live studios, and how to head each one off.
Continue readingCosts
A plain account of how camera work for a live studio is priced: what the quotation covers, which choices raise or lower it, and what to settle before asking for figures.
Continue readingCase story
Rhys ran a small regional news desk where one presenter always looked a shade greener than the other. This is how we traced it to the lighting plot and fixed it.
Continue readingWorkflow Advice
Autumn brings earlier darkness, longer bulletins and more outside broadcasts. Here is how to refresh your run sheets, rehearsals and failover checklists for the months ahead.
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Studio design, equipment integration, acoustics and lighting for live television, planned in Dorchester and handed over with documentation and training.
