For over 20 years The Mixbus has recorded, mixed and streamed HD audio for the world’s biggest artists and events.
You have already heard our work - across BBC TV / Radio / Online - onsite at festivals - content on your phone - in cinemas internationally.
PROJECTS
Highlights
British Summer Time
Hyde Park
AUDio recording
Later... with Jools Holland
bbc series
The Mercury Music
Prize 2025
live broadcast
The Importance Of Being Earnest
LIVE TO CINEMA
Eurovision Song Contest 2023
live broadcast
National Theatre Live:
Inter Alia
LIVE TO CINEMA
The Funeral of
HMQ Elizabeth II
live broadcast
Michael McIntyre's
Big Show
bbc series
The Choir with
Gareth Malone
bbc series
Dr. Strangelove
live to cinema
CHIC & Nile Rogers: NYE Live
live broadcast
Amy Winehouse at Bush Empire
AUDio recording
THE BUSES
Facilities
THE MIXBUS
Our large-format location recording vehicle has been specifically designed to produce up to 5.1 audio for the largest shows with clarity, style and reliability - based around a Studer Vista X console and Kii Three monitoring. The interior has been designed with style and comfort in mind, and has been involved with some of the most prestigious shows of the last few years. A 6kW UPS on board powers the truck for 30 minutes in the event of mains interruption, and dual power supply rings are fitted to every piece of technical equipment for redundancy.
THE AUXBUS
For Central London, tighter spaces, smaller theatres and social media broadcasting there's the 7m long Auxbus, our small-format sound OB that benefits greatly over carry-in rigs and scanner sound booths. Based around a Studer Vista 5 console, Auxbus features the same redundant and backup systems as the Mixbus, including true surround Kii-Three monitoring and a 5kW UPS. A perfect solution for smaller productions requiring critical, reliable surround sound or stereo facilities. There’s also infrastructure for compact video facilities.
THE BUSES
Services
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The Mixbus and The Auxbus are capable of mixing and distributing mixes and audio feeds to a variety of destinations over a variety of platforms. We are proud to have been the audio partner for every single NT Live stream, broadcasting audio direct to cinemas across the UK since the first performance in 2009.
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Capture the most important moments forever. With live performances being so expensive and pivotal it’s more important than ever to record clean multitrack audio. Those performances can then be utilised as additional content like Bonus Tracks, in Deluxe Editions, Record Store Day vinyls or for Super Fan giveaways.
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We supply systems based on the same renowned Studer mic amps as used in the Mixbus. These are connected via fibre to a remote recording system featuring two separate multitrack recorders for redundancy, along with extensive routing, clocking, monitoring and timecode facilities. The systems come in blocks of 48 for analogue signals, or 64 for MADI splits. We use equipment of the highest reliability and quality, and all our systems are pre-configured and tested off-site. We also advise on audio facilities and acoustics, and offer a design service for technical and non-technical end users.
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When there’s no room for a vehicle but you need highest quality facilities in stereo or surround, we have the solution. Based around a field-proven version of the Studer Vista that sits in the Mixbus and Kii Three audio monitors we can build a TV or radio control room almost anywhere. Telex communications, a grams desk with MADI backup and switchover facilities, SpotOn audio playback systems and Cedar noise control are also available on request. For cinema transmissions, we have live Dolby Digital encode/decode facilities, Dolby DP570 monitoring and TC System 6000 multi-format processing.
THE TEAM
Who We Are
Former BBC sound supervisor Conrad Fletcher designed the Mixbus in 2010 and has continued to add unique features to enable studio-class mixing from a mobile control room. His background in acoustics design combined with modern working practices and equipment have established his respected reputation in the broadcast audio community for surround live-to-cinema mixing, realtime dubbing and cinematic theatrical capture.
Conrad fletcher
Founder
Chris joined the Mixbus in 2016, and is the facilities guarantee engineer when on site with a specialist knowledge into the infrastructure, having been part of the commissioning of the new facilities in 2019. A trained Tonmeister, Chris is a specialist orchestral recording engineer and holds dozens of credits in the classical recording industry, as well as freelancing as a sound supervisor and music editor for a variety of arts and events programming within the BBC.
Chris kalcov
Guarantee
Tracy is our primary radiomic supervisor and is unparalleled in her ability to fit miniature microphones to actors invisibly with clarity sound. One of the most in-demand supervisors in Europe, she has pioneered techniques now used by the rest of the industry, with 20 years of credits including most televised UK awards ceremonies, live cinema broadcasts of theatre and opera, as well as presentation studios for the Summer and Winter Olympics.
tracy campbell
Radiomic Supervisor
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About Us
The Mixbus and The Auxbus are dedicated 5.1 surround-capable music and audio outside broadcast facilities serving the broadcast industry in the UK and Europe, built and founded by Conrad Fletcher and operated by our small highly-skilled pool of freelancers. We are proud to present these vehicles as the UK's only recording mobiles specifically designed for 'live to cinema' events, having provided broadcast sound for every National Theatre Live performance live to cinemas across the world. Our flagship mobile recording facility is an acoustically treated sound control room on wheels, capable of tracking over 200 separate inputs. The discrete 5.1 speaker system translates mixes effortlessly to the sound of the average cinema or living room, using calibrated Dolby Digital cinema equalisation.
We also produce a selection of pop, rock, classical and theatre events live-to-cinema, as well as countless 5.1 and stereo TV and radio transmissions accompanying all of the UK's biggest OB facilities. The Mixbus and Auxbus are equipped with the exceptionally flexible Studer Vista console via proprietary compact and high-quality fiber optic stagebox systems. We can also provide the room for additional integrated facilities, such as grams, comms and sound-proofed viewing galleries. Contact us to discuss your next project, no show too simple nor complex.