Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1512678
had gone to management [at Sony] and said that we want to test our home systems so if everything shuts down, we can keep working. Sure enough, the following week it did. At first, I was basically working on a laptop, a MacBook Pro, and a small system with Artist series controllers. Very rapidly, starting the first mix day, it became clear. I tried to make a long fade and uh … it was not great, so I bought an S1 and a Dock. [Shortly thereafter, I] bought a couple more, upped the speaker system, and had to evolve rapidly into a better home mixing environment. We were using Genelecs up front and JBL's in the back. We went from zero to 60 really fast! Vicki at the same time was mixing with Technicolor. They gave her a rig to take home. She set up in the living room and, for some time, we were both mixing big TV shows from home. Vicki Lemar: He was mixing The Blacklist and Insecure in the bedroom while I was mixing Sabrina and Riverdale in the living room, and we're both uploading mix stems each day… EP: …And one of us would yell, "Hey, don't upload yet, I've gotta download!" VL: And sometimes it was a race to see who could start uploading first. EP: We started with everyone remote, but eventually, we had FX mixing on the stage and me at home and all I had to send was my session and any changed audio files, so it wasn't as big a thing as bouncing stems. [Internet speeds] have gotten better since, but it was tough. So, Vicki, when you were mixing in the living room, was that also a 5.1 setup? Elmo and Vicki's setup