Join the Indiana Section of the Audio Engineering Society and producer Alan Johnson at Static Shack Studios to catch up, network, and see this landmark of the Indianapolis recording scene. The facility is built around a Russ Berger-designed LEDE control room, with more than 875 sq. ft. of primary recording space and three attached isolation booths. Come ready to talk shop, check out the studio, see old friends, and make some new ones!
Static Shack is located at 5763 Park Plaza Court (46220), off of 71st St and Binford Blvd. Parking is available in front of the studio. Light refreshments will be provided by the Indiana Section.
Join the team at Haverstick Designs to discuss the acoustics (and psychology) of designing and implementing a recording studio that fosters creativity.
Join the technical staff of The Center for the Performing Arts, Force.Tech, and Mid-America Sound to get a behind-the-scenes look at recent upgrades to the audio system at the Palladium. The new PA system from L-Acoustics, including K3, A10i, the new LA7.16i amplified controller and more. Presenters will discuss the system’s design, including LiDAR scanning and room modeling, system installation and tuning, as well as the end user perspective.
Please check-in for this event at the Palladium Security Door near the loading dock on the Northwest corner of building. Doors will open at 5:30 for the 6pm event.
Parking: Free parking is available on surrounding streets and in the city’s self-parking garages, within easy walking distance of the Center’s venues. The nearest garage is at the Tarkington and Studio Theater building, just south of the Palladium off 3rd Avenue; follow the signs to the Palladium entrances. Please do not park on the loading dock.
Meeting Topic: Inside the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media & Technology at IU-Bloomington
Moderator Name: Brett Leonard
Speaker Name: Kevin Evans, Danny French, Nathan Miller, and Brock Hamman, IU Radio-TV Services
Meeting Location: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Summary
Indiana University Radio-TV Services welcomed the Indiana section of the AES to tour the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology’s control rooms within the storied Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, the home of the IU Bloomington basketball dynasty. After years of fly-pack setup for basketball season and special events, the University’s Radio-TV Services were allocated space to construct dedicated control rooms within the building. The facility’s design goals were to streamline production for broadcast and recording, as well as video wall production, as well as uniting a variety of different campus facilities at a central hub.
The primary venue serviced by these control rooms is the Assembly Hall itself, where basketball games are covered by roughly eight cameras and some 20-30 mics. The production’s outputs, however, are somewhat more complex. Feeds from the control rooms feed streaming on the Big Ten Network, campus TV, radio, venue concourse video monitors, as well as the arena’s video boards. These productions require the crafting of several unique audio mixes and video cuts. The staff, overseen by at least one staff engineer-in-charge, but often employs a full compliment of student workers in roles from on-screen graphics to video replay and camera shading.
The facility’s unique technical features center around a robust central fiber network. Fiber interconnection runs throughout Assembly Hall, offering an array of Dante interconnection options, as well as tie-in to feeds from the house PA system. The Dante network is currently manually configured, but upcoming upgrades will include implementation of Dante Domain Manager, allowing for greater control over access levels for student engineers. Video is run on SMTPE 2022, with provisions in place for updates to SMPTE 2110. Similarly, intercoms are run over a dedicated portion of the same network. This network is also patchable to a variety of dedicated fiber and triax interconnection to the broadcast truck pad often used by networks broadcasting notable games and tournaments, allowing for easy interconnection and sharing of feeds. The fiber network also connects to other notable venues across campus with 100 Gigabit trunk lines, allowing these control room facilities to function for any variety of events across campus. A central machine room between the two control rooms offers hard patching between remote venues and these control rooms, as well as the IU Radio-TV studios across campus.
Indiana Section - Audio Engineering Society 