The intended market for this room is 30 minute and 1 hour episodic broadcast TV - mostly reality, and documentary, branching off into dramatic and others. We would also like to take a stab at the independent film market here since there are no local Dolby approved rooms. I need to seat about 8 audience people in addition to the mixer for both video and film style mixing. In my current design I'm looking at using an Argosy NC-24-RRC (
Digidesign C|24 90-NC24-RRC by Argosy Console, Inc.) which had larger wings that could be used as a producers area at either side of the mixer. So the producers are covered. 1 Rows of seats behind the mixer, and 2 rows of audience seating in front.
I think it's within our budget to have a theatrical cinema system with arrays, as well as the standard ITU spec system. So the producers and I have the option of hearing either system, then for screenings with a small audience, we would only use the cinema system.
I'm really banging my head against a wall here trying to come up with an appropriate solution - does this sound reasonable?
The entire focus of this room was to seat more people than the local competition.
And again - I really appreciate all this advice. I can't get it anywhere else. Also, this thread is starting to become the same as one over at the Post Forum. But different people are replying to each.