Journal
Notes from the studio and the gallery on equipment, cameras, sound, lighting and the planning that keeps live television running to time.
The journal collects short, practical articles on live production, published about once a day. They cover studio wiring, camera work, acoustics, lighting and the run sheets that hold a broadcast together.
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Getting clean speech on air: a practical guide to room treatment
A step-by-step walk through taming a studio or hall before the first microphone goes up, so presenters and guests sound clear without heavy fixes in the mix.
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A Lighting Checklist to Work Through Before You Commit
Before anyone books a rig or hangs a single fixture, these are the questions worth settling: the room, the cameras, the presenters and the plan for the day itself.
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Six Common Mistakes in Concert and Festival Broadcast
Most trouble at a stage broadcast starts well before the first song. Ewan Gordon goes through the slips that cost crews time and sound quality, and how to avoid each one.
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What a Camera Crew Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain breakdown of how camera operation and direction is priced for interviews, bulletins and stage events, and which choices make a booking cheaper or dearer.
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A small control room rebuilt around one dependable signal path
Isla Campbell recounts how a community venue's cluttered control room became a tidy, wired-once studio gallery, as told through the work done with Morag, who ran their live streams.
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Planning Autumn Live Shows: Run Sheets and Rehearsals That Hold Up
As the dark evenings arrive and the live calendar fills, Isla Campbell explains how to build run sheets, rehearsal slots and backup plans so a show keeps to time.
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Noise Floor, Room Tone and Clean Speech: Audio Terms Explained
Fiona MacLeod explains the audio terms heard in every gallery, from noise floor to room tone and reverberation time, and why each one matters for speech and live music on air.
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Tungsten or LED for a Small Studio Set: A Clear Recommendation
Two lighting options for a presenter set compared on colour, heat, power and camera behaviour, with the choice we would make for most small studios planning live work.
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Behind the Scenes of a Multi-Camera Concert Broadcast
How a small, practised crew turns a stage event into a live multi-camera programme: the recce, the kit, the rehearsal and the quiet decisions made while the band plays on.
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How many cameras does an interview or live show really need?
The question we hear most often about camera work: how many cameras, how many operators, and who calls the shots. Straight answers for interviews, bulletins and stage shows.
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Wiring a Studio Control Room: How We Approach Equipment Integration
Callum Reid explains how flairuni plans vision mixers, routing, monitoring and intercom as one control room, and what clients can expect from an integration project this autumn.
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The Paper and Software Behind a Live Show That Runs to Time
Ewan Gordon describes the run sheets, rehearsal plans and backup lists the team uses to plan a live broadcast, and why a plain document often does more than clever equipment.
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A Checklist for Judging Room Sound Before You Commit
Callum Reid sets out the questions worth answering about your room, your microphones and your mix before settling on an acoustic and audio plan for live television.
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Studio Lighting Mistakes We See Often, and How to Avoid Them
Most lighting trouble on a live programme starts in planning, not on the night. Here are the mistakes we meet most often on studio sets and stages, and the habits that prevent them.
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What a Concert and Festival Broadcast Costs, and Why
A plain look at what moves the price of a multi-camera stage broadcast: camera count, kit, crew days, rehearsal time and venue conditions, so you can plan a sensible budget.
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Two cameras, one rehearsal and a panel that nearly ran long
A short case from the studio: how Callum worked with Morag's regional panel programme, and what changed once camera positions and cueing were agreed before the doors opened.
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Getting Your Control Room Ready Before the Winter Schedule Begins
Mid autumn is the quiet window to check routing, monitoring and intercom before winter programmes, concerts and Christmas broadcasts fill the diary. Here is how we would spend those weeks.
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