broadcastnews EUROPE CMC taps into T*AP By Erica Basnicki
JÜNGER AUDIO has sold four of its T*AP Television Audio Processor units to France’s CMC Laboratories, supplied by French distributor 44.1. Part of the MonalSystem group, CMC clients include all the main French TV broadcasters (France Télévision, TF1, Canal+, M6), as well as international distributors such as Warner, Universal, Metropolitan, Wild Side and more. “We tested all of the products
available on the market before choosing the T*AP, and this made us realise that real-time loudness normalisation is not an easy thing,” said Jean-François Brion, assistant to the operating manager and sound engineer at
CMC’s Jean Francois Brion with Daniel Almeida, senior maintenance technician at MonalSystem
CMC. “We already knew the Jünger product range well – especially the D02 limiter/ compressor – and we were quick to take an interest in the LEVEL MAGIC algorithm. We optimised the T*AP setup over
UNITED KINGDOM
THE UNIVERSITY of Manchester Students’ Union radio station, Fuse FM, has been supplied with two Studer OnAir 1500 mixers by HHB Communications. The studios are used for production and live broadcasting, and both mixers feature six fader expanders and the Relink I/O sharing option. Fuse studio manager James Sandford said: “We are very pleased to be able to offer our students a state-of-the-art digital broadcast facility, providing them with the skills that can be useful in their future careers.” www.fusefm.co.ukwww.hhb.co.uk
a long period of work to make the loudness normalisation the way we wanted it to be: smooth and as respectful as possible of the original sound.”n www.cmclaboratories.comwww.junger-audio.com
Total communications for intercom cont’d
Barry Spencer, general manager of broadcast at Trilogy Communications, says while OCA makes sense for companies like Bosch and the Stagetec group, which have ranges of different product types, from loudspeakers to intercom to mixing consoles, this is not the situation for everyone. “By doing all this some people might take their eye off their core business,” he comments. Simon Browne, director of
worldwide product management at Clear-Com, which is an observing partner with OCA, hopes some basic interoperability between systems will come about through the technology. “We all have open standards and so some common set of say, crosspoint control, could be found to help customers exploit their varied system solutions based on differing manufacturer’s equipment,” he says.
Other intercom
manufacturers are leaning more towards AVB. “It is really pushing the envelope of what is possible in regards to integrated systems distributed over simple Ethernet infrastructures,” comments Riedel spokesman Nils Quak. “This will be a great leap
forward in terms of installation design for the next years. AVB will be one of the biggest – if not the biggest – development in regards to realising intercom systems.” Both the AVB and OCA camps are pushing on with formulating and establishing their respective formats. The AVnu Alliance recently took on three new members, including beyerdyanmic, and appointed the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) as the first test house for AVB certification. Work on pro-audio products is scheduled to begin during the first quarter of 2013. During the recent InfoComm show Alliance members including Bosch, Riedel, Sennheiser and Avid demonstrated the possibilities for interoperability using the technology. On 7 June the OCA Alliance announced it had completed the OCA 1.0 specification, which defines the overall architecture of OCA and the communications protocols that can be used, as well as giving a detailed list of possible control and monitoring actions and functions.n www.avnu.orgwww.oca-alliance.com