Gadgetory

12 babe back in an old soul watching plies and children on the street what we said about to do in building this place was to build the ultimate playpen for musicians this is how Bob Weir envisions the future of music the Grateful Dead frontman has created a state of the art music and streaming studio to broadcast unbelievably high quality sounding music over the internet to fans around the world welcome to TR I do you want to just change the way that people consume music or experience it is it for the musicians or for the audience or both it's for everybody music is for everybody so for the musicians we come here we have a great time for the audience we try to make it really easy Grateful Dead set the standard back in the sixties of first guys paying attention to the PA and building it we streamed out the highest the consumer can receive butting on the internet on a regular basis both audio and video eyes and we're only limited now by what the consumer can receive so if you're watching at home this is something comparable to getting to see Bob where the Grateful Dead or some other band like in a coffee shop you know the permanent dream it's the closest you can ever get to actually being in the band it is a studio but it's a live performance studio so it's not sterile like a normal recording studio is it is built for live performance the sound is amazing it's a very relaxed laid-back atmosphere and it's in the true traditional Grateful Dead what the studio is in every sense mind blowing at the center of it is the constellation I could use a little more nine years a cutting-edge sound system developed by audio engineer John Meyer to enhance the sound that musicians here on stage will they call me the breeze all around the sides and back there are some 80 speakers hanging that soffit and then hanging down from the ceiling you also can't see them unless you look real close through a bunch of microphones there are a couple dozen of those and they take it up in through software and then put it back out through the speakers how about this to begin with I can show you that this is how this room sounds all by itself you just turn everything huh clap it's the room number one club again now we're not now we're in a theater again a smaller theater yep no in a Cathedral oh wow again this is another cathedral but on and on it goes we've got anything from living rooms to ballparks and everything in between we haven't got the Grand Canyon yet so a band can come in here and you guys can play or they can play and they can stream it and make it sound as though they're anywhere in the room yeah and we're what we're trying to do this right now this is all on an iPad here but we're trying to get it on a footswitch the heart and soul of t RI is this audio control room known as the inner sanctum here a mix comes in from the studio and that is pushed out to the world and this is where the show all comes together the live performance is then switched and streamed out to fans we have a switcher you know we have all sorts of different monitors to see and behind this we can watch all the different shots and it's basically like a TV studio but it's for the web the one hiccup in the system is that on the other end a listener has to have a fat bandwidth pipe and the computer hardware capable of decoding such a high quality signal otherwise the music just sounds like regular old streaming audio can you geek out for a minute on how you're doing that and what the limitations are filling at home is just bandwidth right at home well its bandwidth at home to enjoy it but it started with Bob yeah and grateful dead fashion he had an unlimited budget he far exceeded the unlimited budget by getting every possible new toy that can push the fattest data rate out of here Abby peaches and cream we built this place with internet blood cast in mind what we're trying to do is make it so people will be able to gather at a friend's house and everybody will be able to watch basically a concert there without having to drive a long way after midnight you