Archive for April, 2009

~Interconnect Panels, Equipment Interface Cables and Military Grade Field Cables featuring Neutrik’s opticalCON DUO Connectors ~

LAS VEGAS, NV ─ Wireworks, the leading innovator of audio/video cabling systems and custom panels, presents total end-to-end Fiber Solutions complete with interface panels, equipment cables and military grade field cables ready for integration into broadcast studio, truck and remote applications based on the Neutrik opticalCON DUO connectors at NAB 2009. more

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Responding to the area’s growing demand for facilities that can handle all aspects of post production, Seattle-based audio post house Clatter&Din expanded its roster of offerings in 2004 to include video and other media services. Soon after the addition of these new services, the company quickly realized it would require a more functional and consolidated studio space and enlisted the services of Russ Berger Design Group (RBDG) to help facilitate the transformation. more

OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT - APRIL 2009: With more than 10,000 units in use around the world, the HHB FlashMic digital recording microphone is already the interview recorder of choice for leading broadcasters including ABC Radio, Aljazeera, the BBC, Bloomberg, BSkyB, CNN, NHK, NBC, and RAI. Now HHB celebrates the sale of its 1,000th FlashMic in Germany where distributor INNOTON has already added national broadcasters WDR and NDR, and ORF (Austria) to the prestigious FlashMic user list. The 1,000th FlashMic in Germany was sold to Radio BasiX, a web radio project for young people in the Kraichgau region of South Western Germany, whose journalists now enjoy the same recording quality, more

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA: The Osbournes - Sharon, Kelly, Jack, Ozzy and assorted favorite dogs - are returning to television soon with a variety show on FOX that features audience interaction, candid camera-type skits, music, and even a pair of “mini Osbournes,” two British child actors who impersonate Sharon and Ozzy complete with off-color language. Six episodes of “Osbournes: Reloaded,” which will air later in the year, have already been shot at CBS Television City in Hollywood, where production mixer Evan Adelman did his best to capture the mayhem with a combination of Sennheiser wireless handheld and lavalier microphones. more

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, WASHINGTON - JANUARY 2009: Symetrix is pleased to announce an optional firmware update for the AirTools 6100 Broadcast Audio Delay that adds user-specified offset to the TC89 (ESE clock) output. With the new firmware, an additional menu in the 6100’s user interface allows a radio engineer to specify a constant offset time between zero and sixty seconds for the TC89 output so that the studio clock displays the TID (time in delay) plus the uplink/downlink latency. This allows the 6100 to easily accommodate delays incurred from ISDN lines, codecs, satellite signals, etc.

Upgrades are only performed at the Symetrix factory. The fee for the upgrade is $300 and also includes a full factory test and overnight return freight to the customer via Symetrix’ preferred carrier. The customer is responsible for the inbound freight. Symetrix will attempt more

— Slim speaker enclosure perfect for medium-sized control rooms, film and video postproduction, broadcast monitoring and project studios –

NATICK, MA, April 30, 2009 — Genelec, the world’s longstanding leader in active monitoring, is proud to introduce the new 1038CF Tri-Amplified Active Monitoring System. It features loudspeaker drivers, slim speaker enclosure (only 9.25″/235 mm), dual eight-inch long throw bass drivers, multiple power amplifiers and active, low level crossovers. Designed for medium-sized control rooms, this system is ideal for music recording studios, project studios, film and video postproduction and broadcast monitoring. more

Ten-Week Course Helps Students Understand the Roots of Rap Culture

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 29, 2009 — The Institute of Production & Recording (IPR) is pleased to announce that its Hip-Hop Essentials class is now being offered to its students as a regular elective. The class helps students develop a further understanding of the business of hip-hop distribution, sales, promotion and marketing. Running since 2006, the course is now in full swing in conjunction with the highly acclaimed independent hip-hop label, Rhymesayers. more

Iroquois, ON, Canada – April 28, 2009 – Ross Video today announced the launch of the CrossOver 16 HD and SD Production Switchers. This marks the latest addition to the CrossOver family of multi-definition compact production switchers.

The CrossOver 16 Feature Set Includes:

- 12 Multi-Definition Inputs

- 6 Multi-Definition Outputs

- 1 Analog Down Converted Output

- 4 Assignable Frame Syncs with Format Conversion

- 2 Media Stores with Animation Capability

- 2 Channels of 2D DVE for PinP and 2D Transitions more

Damian Del Borrello, head of MoFo Productions, describes himself as a ‘tech geek’, who demands as much from his studio equipment as his clients demand from him.

With this philosophy in mind, he has chosen to install a Fairlight Xynergi Media Production Centre at his facility in Perth because it offers an elegant and complete solution to all his audio production needs.

“Being able to deliver mixes for approval and insert audio directly from FTP sites, via VSR, straight from the controller, is already making a huge difference to my workflow,” Del Borrello says. “Thanks to Fairlight, the market finally has a truly complete Digital Audio Workstation, with a unified ingest/delivery system - and HD video!” more

DK-Technologies has unveiled the PT0710M HD/SD waveform monitor, a single channel version of the acclaimed PT0760M that won a TV Technology STAR Award at NAB last year.

Billed at the PT0760M’s baby brother, the PT0710M can display Red, Green, Blue and luminance plus Gamut errors. It is available with a variety of upgrades, making it ideally suited to smaller production studios and Outside Broadcast vehicles that don’t currently need a multi-channel unit but would like the option of adding functionality at a later stage. These upgrades include external reference from Black Burst or Tri-level signals, Vectorscope, audio de-embedding of up to 16 channels, simple bar graph audio metering, Dolby E decoding, full 5.1 metering via the DK StarFishTM/JellyFishTM display and a full range of 8 audio channel input and output plug-in cards. more