The world needs artistry. Producers, musicians, and storytellers need to create. Blue Rock delivers high quality media tools and unforgettable experiences — audio and video sessions, LIVE streaming, workshops, concerts, mixing, all in inspired spaces. Contact us (info@bluerocktexas.com) and let's get your project going. Sign up for the newsletter. Come see us for a tour.
LIVE STREAMING ON THE EDGE
The internet is a beautiful thing. It brings the world to us, and us to the world. Except when it doesn’t. The Live Stream takes an unaccountable journey before it arrives on screens in living rooms and cafes world-wide. How can a producer make sure the show survives this network — all the towers and transmitters, converters and translators inhabiting the shadowy path from here to YouTube and onward? Well, two words: redundancy and redundancy.
First, we need to know if all our megabits are healthy. So we monitor our data rate as it enters the network, and also as it arrives at our distributor, ReStream. Then we see our vitals again as the show enters the server at YouTube.
But here’s a significant improvement we've put in place after much experimenting. The team was able to develop a method of stream delivery that meets our criteria: two concurrent streams, two encoders, connected to two separate networks. Now, when the unpredictable happens along the path of our Primary feed, a backup stream will take over immediately, helping to achieve an unbroken viewer experience. We’re excited about the consistency this is giving us. We are always thinking about how to do this better. Turns out two streams are better than one. Thanks so much for your support.
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INTERVIEW:
Celebrating the Blue Rock
story and Vintage King's 30th Birthday!
After spending years as a singer, songwriter, touring artist, and recording engineer, Billy Crockett settled down in Wimberley, Texas, with his wife Dodee, and together they set up Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio.
Over the past 18 years, Blue Rock has hosted artists Lyle Lovett, Christopher Cross, Jesse Winchester, Ruthie Foster, Sarah Jarosz, the popular podcast Song Exploder, and many other influential artists. Billy sat down with us recently to tell us how Vintage King helped outfit the space with calibrated sonic tools, how he ended up becoming good friends with legendary audio pioneer Rupert Neve, and what he thinks stands the test of time.
DONAVON FRANKENREITER'S
BLUE ROCK STORY is the album-making experience reborn. To create The Heart, Donavon and the band lived onsite for 10 days, tracked, mixed, filmed and streamed it LIVE to his fans. This approach to creating, promoting, funding albums was not only visionary, it was also a blast!. The song, "Big Wave," now has over 27 million Spotify plays and this video, sponsored by Sanuk, is approaching a million views.