For the past several months you may have read in these postings that Tesco Productions was acquiring a number of upgrade units – particularly outboard microphone preamps. Well the install is nearing completion and was quite a major overhaul. My cohort Allyn once again saved the day (several actually) while burning some of his hard-earned vacation time by showing up and soldering up a storm. The studio was offline for two weeks as we removed old cabling no longer in use, installed about 800 feet of new wire, added a microphone patch bay, replaced three existing patch bays with new ones, and provided 16 additional microphone/line inputs into the control room. It took two days just to make the microphone patch bay connections. Allyn also brought over his construction tools and we made a new double-wide equipment rack which will eventually be highlighted with some remote-controlled LED lighting my friend Danny found at Lowe’s. There’s still some labeling to do but a good part of that is completed now and is even color-coded so an “old” guy like me can follow the new layout more quickly. A portable rack will be put in place eventually to house some of the “misplaced” equipment which will have a new home under the mixing console.
I’m excited to have this long-awaited project well on its way and look forward to us all appreciating the improved sound pallets now available.
