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New studio is equipped with a Stagetech Aurus and Soundcraft Vi6, used to mix in-studio sound


facilities to align monitoring at the console with the FOH system’s output. There is an excellent switchable fader for controlling the wedge monitors at the disposal of guest singers, and the matrix and VCA controls are also easy to use and effective.” In-studio sound


reinforcement consists of 10 flown Ohm BR-8 160° loudspeaker enclosures covering the studio audience and powered with RCF 400 amplifiers, plus an Ohm BR-6 enclosure on either side of the LED wall. Five QSC ISIS 122M floor installed speakers powered with a QSC 1500 amplifier are divided into two zones — one for each of the show’s hosts — and four QSC CSM low-profile wedge monitors are on hand for musical guests. Although saying he would have appreciated ‘dynamic’


Six Hitachi SK-HD1000 (R2) multi-standard, multi-format cameras are used on-set


speed with which clips can be recalled and the possibility of passing from one clip to another even inline, with the ‘set flag’. Our three Sony XDCAMs are very stable and reliable for the recording and playback of high quality images.”


On the LED-based lighting,


Director of Photography Antonio Mansi adds, “The 15 DTS Delta 7 RGB LEDs are bright energy-efficient fixtures that ensure flexible use and low


Wash 575, which are used to enrich areas of the set, mainly the floor, and 14 Clay Paky Alpha spot 575s, used for musical events and other programmes hosted in the same studio. The studio’s two lighting operators helm a pair of Compulite control consoles.” Filippo Langarelli, Rai


official responsible for the audio and video aspects of the broadcaster’s television studios in its Rome production centre, concludes, “The studio is also


“There is an excellent switchable fader for controlling the wedge monitors at the disposal of guest singers, and the matrix and VCA controls are also easy to use and effective”


contour control facilities for smoothing complexions or giving them more detail, regarding the six Hitachi SK-HD1000 (R2) multi-standard, multi-format cameras, Video Technician Giuseppe Gentile says, “I definitely appreciate the reliability through time of these cameras’ colorimetric-setting values.”


Switching Regarding the studio’s Grass Valley Kayak DH, video mixer Technician Antonio DeBellis says, “The switcher is reliable and really complete. The two BLT SMS 220 HD video servers are reliable and easy to use for editing images in realtime, and forming sequences. Another feature is the


maintenance costs. Their rectangular light front enables them to be used to illuminate large areas of the set evenly, and their RGB technology ensures continuous colour- changing facilities. “We also use 18 Evolight LED fixtures: twelve are Colours12 RGB SV 12-LED bars and can be installed in sets where space is at a premium, whereas the six Colours54 RGB are 18-LED colourchangers and can be used for coloured beams or, as on this show, for effective backlighting.” Head Electrician Valerio Santella adds, “We also have a series of Clay Paky automated fixtures — 14 Clay Paky Alpha


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Emanuele Minghetti


equipped with two Hantarex PD42 VW seamless plasma walls (3x3 and 4x3) and a pair of 3x3 LED walls with Nec Multisync X461UN displays. “At national level the very first full-HD studio was very probably TV3 in Naples, but we began transmitting early this year in full-HD with the first HD studio in our historical Via Teulada production centre in Rome (launched in 1957).” The new studio definitely


got off to a very good start, with the La Vita in Diretta winning a ‘TV Oscar’ in Italy and chalking up an audience share varying between 21.82% and 24.92% (2.5 to 2.6 million viewers).


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