A remote recording is a recording done outside the traditional recording studio setting. This gives it the ability to move from place to place to record events where they happen. Remote trucks are used for recordings of concerts, theatrical productions and sporting events, and for radio and TV broadcasts.
Recordings can be multitrack, stereo mix to tape or both.
MTV's Unplugged, MuchMusic's Intimate and Interactive, the Grammy's, the Junos, The Academy Awards, and MTV Music Video Awards all use remote trucks for their music mix and recording. A remote truck may also be used for a remote studio session, when an artist wants to record in a specific space but it is not a live event. In this case, recordings may go on for days, even weeks. A two or three-way splitter is typical. For every microphone input on the splitter there are two or three outputs.