It looks like Lawo can now check “Help broadcast music into outer space” off its bucket list.
Celebrating Johann Strauss’ 250th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the European Space Agency, Vienna-based production house zontauber rolled its OB truck over to the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, May 31, for a performance of “The Blue Danube” by the Vienna Symphony.
“Our goal was to deliver audio at the highest standard — not only for the audience in the hall and global streams, but symbolically, for the universe,” said tonzauber’s Georg Burdicek.
The heart of the truck is a Lawo mc²36 MkII console with with an A__UHD Core.
Burdicek said, “In terms of sonic performance, I’m very happy with Lawo. The desk has no coloration — it gives me exactly what I feed into it and responds exactly as I expect.”
After imbibing feeds from at least 28 Schoeps mics from the orchestra and adding “[m]ultiband compression, dynamic EQs,” produced mixes including, “a Dolby Atmos mix, multiple broadcast feeds, and simultaneous multitrack recording.”
After that the mc²36 MkII sent the signal to the European Space Agency’s DSA 2 ground station at Cebreros, Spain. From there it was transmitted toward the Voyager 1 spacecraft, making its way out of the solar system since 1977.
Don’t worry, traveling at the speed of light, the signal caught up and blew past the probe in around 23 hours.
