38 FA L L 2 0 2 0 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y
The CAS "Virtual"
PARADE OF CARTS
Like everything else at this year's Mix presents Sound for Film and TV event, the CAS Parade of Carts was
done remotely. The event took place over two days, with pre-recorded presentations followed by live Q&A
via Zoom with moderator Peter Devlin CAS. While nobody got to see the carts in person, people and
carts from multiple continents got a chance to see—and be seen—via video. To see the pre-recorded
cart presentation videos go to: https://cinemaaudiosociety.org/mix-presents-sound-for-film-tv-2020.
Being halfway between the UK and
California, I definitely appreciated
this.
Recap by G. John Garrett CAS
DAY ONE
First up was Dan Kelly CAS,
coming to us from Los Angeles.
Dan's system is very compact and
modular, running out of three small
racks. He's running a Midas M32R with
Dante to a Pix 270/260 with boom
recorder backup. There's a Mac Mini
for building and loading scenes into the
mixer, Wireless Designer for his
wireless rack, and Dante routing, of
course. In this same rack, he has a
patchbay for video, timecode, MADI,
and Dante, along with the Mac display,
where he can feed three cameras and
his Mac Mini into a quad split with a
decimator. There's a Wi-Fi access point
in this rack (which I have considered
myself!) and a Chindha hook for
headphones.
In the radio rack, there are two Venue
2's and a Sennheiser four-channel
system for PL and public comms.
There's a Midas DL 16 stage box with
16 mic pres and he can connect to the
mixer and other sources via AES50 to
get up to 64 mic pres. Most of the kit
fits into three short racks, and it looks
pretty modular, as well as compact.
He's keeping busy with Jim Henson
Digital.
