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CSP Mobile Productions

Seventy-five years ago in Portland, Maine, Henry Rines started an in-house radio station to promote the Congress Square Hotel. CSP Mobile Productions

Seventy-five years ago in Portland, Maine, Henry Rines started an in-house radio station to promote the Congress Square Hotel. CSP Mobile Productions has its roots in that event and has taken it quite far: CSP today is expanding and operates three mobile units.

Units 4 and 5 are 40-foot video facility tractor-trailers. The newly designed Unit 6 is a 28-foot straight trailer with a high-tech digital recording and editing suite, 5.1 mixing capabilities and a 96-input Yamaha PM1D large-format digital audio mixing system. Although budget and cost issues initially excluded buying a digital console for Unit 6, the PM1D turned out to be the logical choice: “Since our trucks contain Yamaha PM3500 and PM3000 consoles, we were already familiar with the PM Series layout and quality…[The PM1D] answered all out concerns in the areas of features, size and economics,” said CSP president Nat Thompson.

The PM1D is configurable in 48- and 96-channel versions with 48 mix busses, 24 matrices and 12 DCAs. It features a relatively light control surface for easy transport, total recall, undo, off-line programmability, central control, graphic parameter readout and an advanced user interface.

Also used in Unit 6 is a 24-bit Tascam DA-78, plus 48 tracks of hard-disk recording/editing capability and Macintosh G4 editing front-end with a MOTU 2408 digital/analog interface. Two 42-inch Fujitsu plasma video monitors, a Whirlwind transformer-isolated splitter, an Equi=Tech balanced power system, microphones from Sennheiser, Shure and Audix come in to play, as well. The unit’s 5.1 monitoring and mixing capability are provided by five Genelec 1031 self-powered cabinets and a Genelec 1096 sub. And dynamics and effects processing are handled by products from T.C. Electronic, Drawmer, Eventide, Yamaha and Lexicon.

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