Cloudbass has also been know to provide a multitude of people to an OB production. This results in the unique scenario where you have a group of people who are used to working together and trust each other, which in turn results in a much more robust crewing solution. This prevents any communication breakdown or personality issues that can sometimes occur with mixed freelancers, which in turn jeopardises a production.

Sound - Supervisors / Guarantees / Assists

Most Cloudbass crew have come from a background in sound and as such at least have a basic understanding of sound even if they now work in a different area. However, sound has always been Cloudbass' primary discipline and the various members of the company have top level knowledge and experience of sound for Outside Broadcast.

Our guys came into the industry just as new technology, in the form of digital desks, was being introduced. With an open minded approach to how things should be done the company quickly established itself as a leading provider of guarantees to trucks with digital desks, in particular Bowtie TV's Unit 1/2. This was several years before the other facilties providers had embraced digital technology. Cloudbass now regularly provides digital savvy people to ArenaTV for its Premiereship coverage for Setanta.

The natural progression from guaranteeing was supervising and Cloudbass have several top level supervisors that regularly work on projects from sport to LE.

All of our sound guys are also perfectly capable of assisting and with their knowledge of both ends of the cable are able to provide a top level of service in high pressure situations.

As with all our crew, Cloudbass people are fully backed up with experience and training. No one person can know everything about a job and therefore our guys are encouraged to learn if they feel their knowledge is lacking in any way. This takes the form of our in house training on our own kit, including Riedel Communication equipment, as well as a chance to refine their skills in live environments such as our MUTV OB's.

EVS/VT/Editors - Guarantees / Ops

Cloudbass have been providing EVS ops, guarantees and editors for a number of years and in to a wide variety of production situations. With a long established relationship with sport, Cloudbass has been a leading supplier of new EVS Operators to clients such as Sky Sports for its Premiereship football coverage.

Other productions include, Sky Rugby, ITV Touring Cars, ITV and Sky Boxing, National Lottery, Live8, in fact there are few production situations that our ops haven't seen. This allows us share knowledge and provide people who are perfectly suited for what the job requires. As technology moves on rapidly our ops are also able to keep up to date by accessing both our training and our shared knowledge base.

Whilst providing ops, Cloudbass has also regularly fulfilled the role of VT Guarantee for various companies, in particular 021 Television who have substantial VT provision. This role is often difficult to fill as it requires specific knowledge of a company's trucks, which is normally reserved for staff, however the shared knowledge approach of Cloudbass allows us to support each other to successfully guarantee trucks. In fact, Steve Knee was the first to guarantee 021's Unit6, which is a new multimode truck which can be configured as a scanner or VT truck. This was on the British Touring Cars for ITV, which is on of the most VT heavy shows that 021 cater for.

A relatively new direction for Outside Broadcast Companies and Cloudbass has been the provision of Edit Systems for OBs. This requires the editor to understand how an edit system works but also how it integrates with the larger OB. To service this the company now provides a complete edit and editor package which can guarantee that a system works.

Specialist knowledge of the edit system is required to ensure that it perfectly slots into the larger OB and this is what Cloudbass can bring to site. The production company can be be assured the edit will be successful whilst the facilities company can relax knowing that the specialist area of an edit system is covered and backed up.

Vision - Supervisors / Guarantees / Engineers / MCR

Vision is a relatively new area for Cloudbass but one within which it is already establishing an enviable reputation. Headed by James Lacey, Cloudbass provides engineers but also provides guarantees on such production as Sky's HD Boxing OBs, facilitated by CTV. This environment is high pressure and one which requires the facilities to work without fault and on time for one of the most demanding production companies, Sky Sports. James has successfully fulfilled this role, despite the specialist local knowledge of the trucks that is required, on numerous occasions.

Cloudbass has also been very successful in providing crew into Input Media's MCR which has grown exponentially with them taking on the transmission provision for Setanta. This rapid expansion resulted in a phone call to Steve who quickly found suitable people for the roles they had to fill, with several of those people now regular fixtures in Input's MCR. With Cloudbass guarantees also on the other end on the OBs, our people again have a unique understanding of the requirements of the whole transmission path.

Training for all our engineers is again continuous with opportunities to work on our own OB vehicles which are subcontracted to other facilities companies, but also on Arqiva trucks as part of our MUTV facilities solution.

With the back up of a staff based environment but with the experience of the whole industry that a freelancer gets, Cloudbass is able to provide a type of person not previously seen within the broadcast industry yet one that is desperately needed to support productions of every increasing scale and complexity.

Other roles...

Whilst we supply people into the more traditional OB roles, Cloudbass has a long history of meeting specialist client requests. Whether it be screen mix crews for Premiership football clubs or specific multiskilled engineers for foreign derigs, Cloudbass is always able to provide a crewing solution. So if a client requires something a little bit different, we are able to provide in a way that an agency is not.