Academy Awards Show Uses Aviom Personal Mixers

ATK Audiotek is a leading sound company for the professional audio and broadcast industry. For years they have been using Aviom's Pro16® Personal Mixing system for both monitor mixing and communications at events such as the Academy Awards, the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball, and the Grammys, and on shows such as American Idol and Don't Forget the Lyrics. This year Aviom made its second appearance at the Oscars.

Overview

ATK Audiotek is a leading sound company for the professional audio and broadcast industry. For years they have been using Aviom's Pro16® Personal Mixing system for both monitor mixing and communications at events such as the Academy Awards, the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball, and the Grammys, and on shows such as American Idol and Don't Forget the Lyrics. This year Aviom made its second appearance at the Oscars.

Details

This year's Academy Awards, like last year's, included an Aviom Pro16 monitor mixing system at the hub of the communication and monitoring setup. Communications between the broadcast crew, Musical Director Michael Giacchino, orchestra members, and the audio crew from
ATK Audiotek was essential to support the show's musical numbers.

"This year's orchestra setup was different than in years past so it called for a slightly different monitoring and communications configuration," says Andres Arango, staff engineer for Audiotek, a leading sound reinforcement provider for the professional audio and broadcast industry. "To achieve the look and feel of a Big Band from the '40s, the orchestra was situated on two risers on opposite sides of the stage. As a result, our monitor mixer, Michael Cooper, had to ensure that each riser was connected to the other as well as to the monitor console. Since the Aviom system is so flexible in how it can be set up, we were able to configure it so that each riser had its own A-16D A-Net® Distributor to bring audio stems to each location from the mixing console." More...