“Air check” is an old broadcast term — a recording kept specifically to prove what actually went to air. Showcaller, the AI co-pilot for live production, does the same job for your entire show, automatically.
What Air Check actually records
Every state change to your connected gear. Every command sent and every Tally confirmation that followed it. Every connection going online or offline. Every error. Full transcripts of everything said to Showcaller during the show. None of this has to be turned on — it’s running in the background of every show, by default.
Why that’s different from a normal log. Most systems log what they were told to do. Air Check logs what actually happened, because every entry in it is tied to the same verified state that Tally confirms in real time. It’s not a guess reconstructed after the fact — it’s the same record the system was using to run the show in the first place.
How long it’s kept. Permanently. Nothing in Air Check is auto-deleted. Every show you’ve ever run stays in your history, which means you can pull up any moment from any show, whenever you need it — not just the next day, not just this season.
Why this matters more than it sounds like it should. Most of the time, nobody looks at this. Then something goes wrong on a show — a client asks what happened during a specific moment, or a recurring glitch needs a root cause — and the difference between “we think this is what happened” and “here’s exactly what happened, timestamped” is the difference between a guess and an answer.
This is the same principle behind everything else Showcaller does: glass-box, not black-box. Whatever the AI is doing in your rack, you can always go back and see exactly what it was.
See how Tally’s verification feeds directly into this record →