Tompkins County Legislature

The Tompkins County Legislature decided to move to a new site in a historical building located in downtown Ithaca. Their previous location was an office-style venue with low suspended ceilings and drywall construction. The new venue is an old church building that had been used as a courtroom. High ceilings, decorative woodwork and plasters are abundant in this space. AVL was tasked with acoustical control, lighting, audio, video production controls and video display for the new space. In the previous location, cameras were manned by operators. In the new venue they wanted everything to be robotic with one person able to operate cameras, audio, video, and content display. A five camera robotic system was devised with touch screen thumbnails for access to refocused shots. Manual override is also available for any camera. LED video lighting was installed to compensate for varied lighting conditions in a room with many windows and session held in both day and nighttime. Color correction and levels are changed by preset to provide good color rendering at any time of day. The room was treated acoustically as far as possible within historical limitations. The room is still relatively live. Tuning was tricky but, after a round or two of commissioning the audio mix, on-air sounds like a skilled sound operator is mixing the session. All 22 microphones are fed into a gain sharing auto mixer, with one set of QSC DSP for the live in room audio, and a separate DSP auto mix for on air audio.

Tompkins County Legislature

The Tompkins County Legislature decided to move to a new site in a historical building located in downtown Ithaca. Their previous location was an office-style venue with low suspended ceilings and drywall construction. The new venue is an old church building that had been used as a courtroom. High ceilings, decorative woodwork and plasters are abundant in this space. AVL was tasked with acoustical control, lighting, audio, video production controls and video display for the new space. In the previous location, cameras were manned by operators. In the new venue they wanted everything to be robotic with one person able to operate cameras, audio, video, and content display. A five camera robotic system was devised with touch screen thumbnails for access to refocused shots. Manual override is also available for any camera. LED video lighting was installed to compensate for varied lighting conditions in a room with many windows and session held in both day and nighttime. Color correction and levels are changed by preset to provide good color rendering at any time of day. The room was treated acoustically as far as possible within historical limitations. The room is still relatively live. Tuning was tricky but, after a round or two of commissioning the audio mix, on-air sounds like a skilled sound operator is mixing the session. All 22 microphones are fed into a gain sharing auto mixer, with one set of QSC DSP for the live in room audio, and a separate DSP auto mix for on air audio.