Buried in Joe Cipriano’s latest blog post about Apple computers is an interesting comment about doing a session for NBC using Source-Connect.
When I was shooting the Video Seminar up at Apple this past September, I did a few voice over sessions back to NBC using my MacBookPro, Apple Remote Desktop, my mBox2 and Source Connect over their internet connection.
As I’ve written previously, I think Source-Connect and other systems with similar, or even superior, capabilities, are going to make ISDN obsolete in the near future.
Along those lines, last Friday I did my first paying gig using Source Connect and it worked just great. In this case, I needed to do a patch to a studio that needed an ISDN connection. I contacted Dave at Digifon, who took care of everything. While the delay was a bit longer than it is using a direct ISDN or Source-Connect link, it was not a problem. And everyone was very happy with the sound. One more session and Source-Connect will have paid for itself. (In truth it already has, because I’ve saved the price of the equipment, installation and monthly service fees for ISDN.)