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The seemingly unending coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the world this year has been particularly damaging for the music and entertainment industries. The losses suffered by those in live performances have been widely publicised but music producers and recording studios are struggling to operate in this warped world of social distancing, face masks and movement restrictions too. Neither recording studios nor the recording process lend themselves to simple safety measures. Remote recording may be the solution.

Remote recording systems have existed for years. Even before the days of broadband internet, many professional studios had dedicated ISDN telephone lines installed and connected specialised audio encoder/decoder hardware to those lines to allow for remote real-time and broadcast-quality audio transfers. Such systems were practically ubiquitous in radio and broadcast studios, which meant