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The Little Red Truck The Remote West Company, Inc.
   
FIBER OPTIC SNAKE!
The Little Red Truck now has a 1000' MADI snake!
     56 mic preamps in stage box
     3 O2R96 Consoles/Pro Tools HD/Nuendo
     112 Inputs/128 Tracks/Full 5.1 Surround
     Sterling Acterra chassis with sleeper
Great Rates/Superb Sound
Based Out of Valencia, California
We just added a 32 channel ProTools flypack rental system.  See the Equipment page for details.

JUST ADDED! LRT has added fiber optic capability! In a nutshell, this means that we can put 56 channels of Yamaha AD8HR preamps on stage (in a red box, of course), convert them to MADI and run them down a 1000' mil-spec fiber snake, and control the preamps from a laptop in the truck next to the mixer. Of course the preamp settings can be instantly memorized and recalled. Another great feature is that the Nuendo backup system can get its input from the stage box via a beam splitter, completely bypassing ProTools and the consoles. This also means that for your really huge shows, we can land 56 channels via copper, record and mix them to ProTools, and land ANOTHER 56 channels via MADI, and record and mix them to Nuendo. Both ProTools and Nuendo have 8 additional tracks available to print your 5.1 and stereo mixes as well.

After 6 years on the road, the Little Red Truck has gotten a little bigger. The new Sterling Acterra chassis is a former expedite cargo unit with a serious Cat diesel and a sleeper. Our full upgrade of the Little Red Truck audio path has been a great success: the control room is now graced with three Yamaha O2R96 consoles in cascade mode. This means LRT is demonstrably capable of live simultaneous 5.1 and stereo.

One of the primary audio support units in the industry, LRT’s compact design still allows it to get into places the bigger units can’t--and our price point is considerably lower than the big units. There’s no compromise in audio quality, though: LRT is a ProTools HD/112 input/64 track/full 5.1 capable control room/machine room/storage combo with room geometry by industry legend George Augsperger. LRT now boasts a completely separate mic path that records all inputs simultaneously to ProTools AND Nuendo for the ultimate in recording safety.

The Slightly Larger Little Red Truck
*Vegoose 2007--After closing a deal with XM Radio to carry the festival, the Vegoose folks naturally had Effanel Music handle the recording and live mixing. LRT was asked by Effanel to fill in last minute at the Snake Eyes stage and was happy to do so. Artists included Iggy and the Stooges, the Shins, and moe. Joel Singer mixed.

*Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival--LRT was asked to cover the main stage at this amazing San Francisco festival held in Golden Gate Park. The recording was for Austin City Limits and should be a one hour special next season. Artists included the incredible Ricky Skaggs/Bruce Hornsby band and the always elegant EmmyLou Harris. Peter Baird mixed.

*Short takes--LRT was the music truck for Heart at the Orpheum Theater LA on 4/17, Linkin Park on Jimmy Kimmel at the Hollywood House of Blues on 5/18, The Vans's Warped Tour on 8/25, the Bodog Battle of the Bands Finale at the Hollywood House of Blues on 9/5, and the Chabad Telethon on 9/9.

*South By Southwest--the Little Red Truck was the sole music mix room for DirecTV's SXSW Live coverage on their Channel 101. For three straight days LRT was on the air live for eight hours from the Austin Convention Center where Blaze TV built two great bar/stages, the Bat Bar and the Lone Star. Acts included Bowling For Soup, Ozomatli, Tracy Lawrence, Rickie Lee Jones, Rachel Fuller (with a guest shot from Pete Townsend), Pam Tillis, Marc Broussard, and about twenty others. LRT owner Peter Baird fed a stereo-compatible 5.1 music mix to production mixer Klaus Landsberg in the Game Creek Patriot truck who combined that with the audience and host feeds to make the broadcast mix.

*You may have seen the Police reunion at the Grammys, but the next morning, February 12, LRT was at Hollywood's Whisky-A-Go-Go for the band's "rehearsal" and tour announcement, carried live around the world via satellite by most of the major news organizations. CNN picked it up in the US, among others. They performed four classic Police songs and answered questions about the tour. Peter Baird mixed.

*Prince's 3121 show and club at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas has been a huge hit. LRT was there recording the show in HD on January 20. We're not really sure what happens to the recording, but Prince's management asked for both a stereo and 5.1 mix of the concert. That guy works really hard.

*Music mixer for the Jimmy Kimmel Show Bart Chiate used LRT as the music mix suite for Paris By Night, an enormous Vietnamese music talent show held at the Charles Schulz Theater at Knott's Berry Farm, and then took the truck clear to Houston to do the same show several months later. The shows feature upwards of 30 performances per night across two nights.

*America's Party--New Year's Eve in Vegas, Baby! DirecTV's Channel 101 used the entire CDUSA organization to put on the most ambitious live music show last New Year's Eve. On two stages, one at each end of historic Fremont Street, acts alternated doing full live sets. Gary Van Pelt in LRT handled music from one stage and Biff Dawes in Westwood One handled the other. LRT's stage featured OK GO, Smash Mouth, and Chicago while Westwood One had Rockstar Supernova, Five for Fighting, and the All-American Rejects. Peter Baird combined the feeds from both trucks in Denali Silver for a simultaneous 5.1/stereo feed.

*With great regret LRT and the world said goodbye to the CDUSA show in December. The show ran 52 weeks and featured six live performances on each episode. LRT was the sole audio facility for the show. Ed Greene designed the system and mixed several of the shows, and Peter Baird did the rest. Artists included the All-American Rejects, Kelly Clarkson, the Goo Goo Dolls, Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, Switchfoot, and a hundred others. DirecTV asked for a stereo delivery but a 5.1 archive, and LRT came through.