Monitor stacks
It is not unusual to walk into a control room and see 60 monitors in a stack. While this may appear daunting, the stack is there for your benefit and, used effectively, it helps prevent problems getting to air.
Layout of monitors
There are thousands of ways you can lay out monitors in a control room, so I cannot give the definitive description here. However, there are some basic layout rules used by most designers.
The transmission monitor should be the biggest, right in the middle. If the picture is wrong here, it will be wrong on your recording or live transmission, Right next to it is the preview monitor. The vision mixer should always put the next source on this monitor, and as a director you must notice what is there. If ...
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