These two boxes are known affectionately as "Mule 1" and "Mule 2". Mule one is our production machine and number two on the right is our streaming server which sends an mp3 stream in stereo to our Broadcast ISP Live365.com. You can also see two tiny UPS units that keep the main server up and running in case of power outage. Right now we have to hope power comes back on within the 15 minute range of the batteries or everything shuts down automatically.
Here's me (again) working at the remote mixer/server automation desk. This is the part you can't see in the previous picture except for part of the production machine keyboard. Sorry about the dark lighting, but if you look carefully, you can see the remote mixer, DBX 1066 processor, Tascam DAT machine and on top of it all a single monitor that can be switched back and forth between "mule 1" and "mule 2". These pics are stretched a bit so I look fatter than I really am. Honest! The automation software is from Broadcast Service International. It takes our five separate playlists, all our liners, commercials and special programming and streams it according to a preset "program log" we compile each 24 hour day. It works when we don't, meaning we can go "live" with the flick of a switch, but for the most part I'm not even there, too busy trying to make money to pay for all this stuff!
Our guest microphone
for live interviews with a partial shot of our ever growing CD library
and a lap top we use as a supplemental record/playback source. On the shelves
below the desk is the production library where all the "generic" music
background material and sound effects are kept.