The bands' performances, awards presentations and speeches were recorded onto digital multitracks. An overnight post-production at London Studios will see the show trimmed to its broadcast length, ready for broadcast on ITV this evening. Finally, Alington will create an 'international' version of the edited show, with the English commentary and voiceovers removed.He comments: "Our main aim, year on year, is to keep driving up the quality of the soundtrack, to make the BRITs the best-sounding multi-artist music TV show there is. Over the years we've evolved various techniques using the latest technologies to get around the challenges of the incredibly tight time-frame and five-minute changeovers between live acts. The TV audience expects to watch a show that looks and sounds as though it's had a full post-production job done on it, whereas in fact we have about 18 hours to achieve the same effect!"
While Alington heads the broadcast sound team, the BRITs' live/audience sound team is headed by system designer Derrick Zieba with technical production by Britannia Row Productions, using Yamaha PM1D digital mixing desks and an L'Acoustics V-Dosc PA system. The show will be edited and dubbed at London Studios on an AMS Neve Logic console.
Alington is broadcast audio producer for many of Europe's biggest music shows, including 10 years of the BRITs, five years of the Classical BRITs and the past two years of the MTV Europe Music Awards.
(Lee Baldock)
