Gravity Media’s London Production Centre in White City has installed new technology from Calrec as part of an expansion.
The company has extended its capacity with two 48-fader Calrec Argo S consoles and a 36-fader Argo M, which are fully integrated into the facility’s native ST 2110 network topology.
The expansion means the Production Centre now has nine dedicated sound control rooms, with the Argo consoles complementing Gravity Media’s existing Calrec Artemis surfaces. The facility also manages six flexible multi-booths for off-tube commentary, voiceover, and other roles.
“Our London Production Centre was a 2110 facility from day one, but we also knew there was going to be a lot of legacy audio feeds that we’d need to incorporate into that,” said Gravity Media’s senior audio engineer Neil Ottley.
“We needed an audio partner that was able to allow us to fully integrate all those audio streams seamlessly but also have one eye on the future because we are already part way through a phased expansion of our Production Centre. Calrec fit the bill and the fact that its IP Gateways, ImPulse cores, and Hydra2 networking products work seamlessly together really worked for us.”
Gravity Media is also looking at how it can deliver even more control in the future with the latest iteration of Calrec’s True Control 2.0 technology. The technology enables the company to develop the scale of its remote production at its London Production Centre, as well as across a new generation of OB trucks.
“True Control 2.0 can be utilised across the Argo range, our existing RP1 remote production units, as well as Calrec’s Type R,” said Ottley. “That really expands the level of control that we’ve got across all of those devices and opens up things like dynamics, EQ, delay, and any other processing that you need to produce a true remote mix from our London facility.
“The combination of the Argo mixers and the truck builds that are currently going on with Gravity Media means we now have the opportunity to do a true remote control of a surface onsite. It means we can use an Argo at our facility to control a console at a venue and access the full range of control that currently we can’t utilise. Having that ability really expands what we could do in the future.”
