Control Room equipment, it`s function and operation.

the control room is where the magic as it where happens, this is where the program is put together if it is a live show, the very important people are usually in here.
their are two control rooms really the first is the Audio control room-
this is where all of the mics and any other sounds is mixed together and played out from, the equipment in this area is-

mixer/desk- this is a crucial bit of equipment,it i where every sound is put into the mixed and then is out putted into amps and the over all recording on the hard drive or recording equipment depending on what is being used, the sound engineer uses this the most you can adjust the levels of sound with the faders and the gain, you can also change how some one sounds using the equalizer at the top which is made up of the high,mid and low frequencies.the way to adjust the volume of what is going out is using the main out faders.

rack- the rack is really a technical name for a tower with different equipment mounted on to it, the common things you would find are Amps, wireless mic receivers and an equalizer you could possibly find other pieces of equipment on it but it always depends on the equipment. the amps are what power speakers and produce the sound louder than the mixer i producing, some professional speakers already have amps built into them so you would adjust the level on the speaker.

CD player- this is very obvious, any CD`s that are to be played would be played through the CD player,it is usually connected through and phono or jack lead never a mic lead.

monitor- this is to show the sound technician what exactly is going out but that is usually all they would have.

speaker monitor- this is a pair of speakers that would be like computer speaker but they would be fairly loud and more accurate so the sound technician can get a better hold on the sound levels and so they can adjust the sound according to what the speakers are giving out.

In our control room for sound at SNC we also have an area to play VT inserts, the equipment for this area is:

DVD player- this play all the VT inserts that area in the show it has to be manually operated but can be a bite tricky as the remote for the machine is not always very good

DVD monitor- this shows what is on the DVD and helps the DVD operator to know what is happening and also what is going to happen next.

the second control room is the vision control room this is where all the vision and pictures of the show is put together it is also where the director and producers sit.their is not also not alot of equipment in their, but the equipment in it is very vital to the show.

vision mixer- this is where all the pictures and images go and some one will select the different pictures to go live, it also mixes and fades the different images into one another.

lighting mixer- this controls the lights and powers the different lights individually,this is done by the faders being faded up or down.

directors screen panel- this is monitors of the different shots and images that are going to the vision mixer the director will look at these screens and tell the vision mixer what images he wants to go live.

as you can see their is alot of equipment that is in the control rooms that makes the whole show run smoothly and go correctly.