Live Recording and Mixing

Cole is the audio engineer for Pitt Tonight, a student-run Tonight Show at the University of Pittsburgh. He does the live, recorded, and produced sound for the full episodes as well as for the "Into The Pitt" live sessions, featuring local artists in unusual venues.

He is often asked to run live sound for a cappella concerts and has recorded and produced his own a cappella group, The Pitt Pendulums, which can be seen to the right.

Into The Pitt sessions

Pitt Tonight Episodes

Cole started doing Pitt Tonight's audio in their second season, when the executive producer approached him after an A Cappella concert he had done sound for.

Due to lack of funding, the majority of Cole's job is troubleshooting and making the best of resources with limited LAV mics, proper recording gear, speaker setups, and general recording inputs.

Below is an episode from Pitt Tonight's current season where we were lucky enough to be in a hall with ample professional recording gear; feel free to skip ahead to 30:13 to hear the string quartet!

Short Skirt Long Jacket

Co-arranged, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Cole Boillat. Video also edited by Cole.