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Monday, March 16, 2009
Mark Frink 03/16/09 02:03 PM, 0 CommentsWhile Congress voted in February to extend the deadline to June 12, 2009 for U.S. television stations to covert to all-digital transmission (DTV), the transition is well underway, with digital transmission already common in major markets. There’s also a movement to provide analog “nightlight” broadcasts, providing a looped “infomercial” to the 30 million who can still only receive analog TV. Thus what we’re left with: digital transmissions have begun while analog also continues in many markets, and it all could… View this story
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Friday, March 13, 2009
PSW Staff 03/13/09 07:31 AM, 0 CommentsEuphonix announced that its professional products division had continued strong sales in Q4, with the company posting its best annual revenues for over 10 years. Key sales included multiple dual-operator System 5 film mixing systems to Todd-AO Hollywood, as well as individual System 5 orders for Japan’s Shochiku Pictures and TV Audio Post house, Yomiuri Eizo. Broadcast consoles sales were also strong with orders from CBC-Vancouver and Zhejiang TV in China as well as from both Univision and Telemundo in… View this story
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
PSW Staff 03/11/09 10:46 AM, 0 CommentsUK-based high-definition broadcast specialists Bow Tie Television has installed a SoundField DSF-2 and DSF-3 digital 5.1 microphone system into its refurbished and rebuilt outside 5.1 studio truck with the cooperation of Sky’s satellite broadcaster for Sky Sports’ premier league darts coverage. “We recorded the world championship darts event to multi-track at Alexandra Palace using two analog SoundField systems,” explains Keith Lane, Sky’s operations manager. “The broadcast itself was in stereo, but we took the multi-track recordings back to HQ to… View this story
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PSW Staff 03/11/09 08:19 AM, 0 CommentsTo enhance the intelligibility of the paging systems within the 86-station Washington Metro rapid transit system in Washington, D.C., all paging announcement microphones have been upgraded to high-end, broadcast-quality Neumann TLM 103s. Washington Metro, or “Metro” for short, has one command and control center in downtown Washington D.C., and a second that is near completion in Hyattsville, Maryland. Within each center, four workstations permit the simultaneous pre-recording of separate pages or, more frequently, simultaneous real-time pages with different content sent… View this story
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
PSW Staff 03/10/09 04:11 PM, 1 CommentNBC’s Today Show explored climactic changes on our planet with a special news report titled the “Ends of the Earth”. The report, which was presented late last year, featured the show’s four anchors stationed in different parts of the world, with the NBC Network News Field Operations team charged with the responsibility of handling all the technical logistics that enabled hosts Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Meredith Vierra, and Al Roker to simultaneously contribute to the program. For the crew tasked… View this story
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
PSW Staff 03/05/09 10:25 PM, 0 CommentsThe Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) just completed construction of a $70 million research facility at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England that is outfitted with high-end audio/visual system technology. Two of the rooms in the building, a 100-seat auditorium and a psychoacoustics research laboratory, required high-fidelity audio with a capacity for extremely flexible routing and a customized user interface. WMG hired UK-based Pure AV Ltd. to realize their very specialized needs, and Pure AV support engineer Colin Hasted designed… View this story
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
PSW Staff 03/04/09 07:24 AM, 0 CommentsNeyrinck has announced the introduction of SoundCode For Dolby E, a stand-alone software package and Pro Tools plug-in set for managing Dolby metadata and Dolby E encoding and decoding functions for multichannel broadcast wave files (MBWF). SoundCode For Dolby E is designed for post-production studios, TV mixers, broadcast and content distribution organizations that need to deliver and monitor Dolby E content on video tape or as files. The software includes two modules, the Broadcast Encoder and the Broadcast Monitor. At… View this story
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
PSW Staff 03/03/09 01:34 PM, 0 CommentsSennheiser and Neumann microphones were utilized for a wide range of live music applications at the recent 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Orchestra mixer Dan Wallin was in charge of all of the live and pre-recorded music. Working in Remote Recording’s “Silver Studio” backstage, Wallin selected Neumann TLM 193, TLM 170 and Sennheiser MKH 8040 wired mics to capture the orchestra. This year, the orchestra, conducted by music director Michael Giacchino, was moved from the… View this story
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
PSW Staff 02/21/09 11:32 AM, 0 CommentsAt the recent 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards Show, telecast on CBS from L.A.‘s Staples Center, XM Productions/Effanel Music employed Genelec 8200 Series Active DSP monitoring systems. Genelec DSP systems consisting of 8250 and 8240 active monitors, along with the 7260 subwoofer, were used in XM Productions/Effanel Music’s L7 truck for the live music mix, as well as in the mirrored system in the Nova offline remix booth. The EMMY Award-winning GRAMMY show takes full advantage of the highest-resolution broadcast quality… View this story
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Friday, February 20, 2009
PSW Staff 02/20/09 03:07 PM, 0 CommentsATK AudioTek of Valencia, California, supplied live audio production for the recent 51st Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center arena in downtown Los Angeles, with a live performance bill featuring considerably more nominees and performers than in the past. Of particular note, more than 50 wireless microphone systems were in use, with frequency coordination provided by Dave Bellamy of Burbank-based Soundtronics Wireless. House Audio Mixer Ron Reaves notes that “there were absolutely no RF failures that I was aware… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Concert • Consoles • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Monitoring • Sound Reinforcement • Stage
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