Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1535953
28 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Summer 2025 production. I've enjoyed Sound Devices products ever since my first 442, 702T, 788T, and beyond, so the choice was easy for me. Knowing that we would have stage performances, music playback, and dialog playback into earwigs, as well the usual number of Comtek, Video Assist, Boom Operator, and Utility Sound feeds, I was excited to see how the Scorpio/CL-16 combination worked. While most digital recorder/controller systems have input and output routing flexibility without the need to re-patch, I was very impressed by the CL-16 interface. It was easy for me to quickly assign multiple sources (any combination) of pre-fader, post-fader, or fixed level to any of the twelve busses, and also assign any of those busses to any of the twelve analog outputs. Surely this is overkill for the needs of many shows out there, but we all love having the extra channels, tracks, Dante I/O, and flexibility, don't we? I purchased my upright-style sound cart from Harrison 'Duke' Marsh (thanks Duke!) back in early 2020 when none of us really new how bad this COVID thing was going to get. I decided years ago that I liked the vertical carts, especially given how so many multichannel wireless systems are designed to go in racks as are more and more monitors. My cart consists of the Scorpio and CL-16, a Sound Devices MixPre-10T backup recorder, four Lectrosonics Venue 2 systems for twenty-four channels of wireless, a Ferrofish Pulse 16 DX 16x16 Dante Interface, two Comtek BST 25/216 TX's, four Lectro IFB TX's, a retractable 1RU 17" monitor, some lights, and a hotel-style call bell. I also use two iPad mini's on the front of the cart for the Scorpio and backup recorder. Below the Scorpio and CL-16 is a Remote Audio Meon LiFe and Meon Extra LiFe (EL40) for a total of 60 amp hours of LiPo battery power. On the back of the cart, I have small wheels on the top handle so that the cart can be laid on its back (thanks again Duke!). I also have multiple BNC Boom Operator, Ryan Fee Jim Lakin's cart Set Costumer John Ostrander and Utility Claire Mondragon working with Randy Newman.