52 TVBEurope News & Analysis


DPA’s latest condenser microphone, d:facto II


www.tvbeurope.com October 2013


Jünger Audio significantly altered the way it markets its audio processing technology, separating its hardware from its featureset


now compatible with the Studer range of audio mixing consoles. Using the new MN-ST-AL-2 expansion card, Studer’s Vista 5 and Vista 9 consoles, as well as its OnAir 3000 consoles, can now be connected via the Studer A-Link protocol to MediorNet Modular frames. The MN-ST- AL-2 card provides two ports, each with redundant interfaces, allowing users up to 384 channels per connection. Roland Systems Group


showed off for the M-200i, a compact 32 channel professional digital mixing console with iPad control. A fully functional iPad app enables remote control of all the key features of the M-200i including pre-amp control, pan, high pass filters and PEQ and GEQ control. It also includes the ability to store and recall scenes, adjust compressors and gates, sends on faders and effect editing.


Also from Roland was different The new Vista


5M3 console features the manufacturer’s FaderGlow system


hybrids. This professional half- rack interface provides a 4-wire audio interface and remote control connection for JK Audio Innkeeper, Innkeeper 1x/1rx, or Innkeeper 2 digital hybrids for POTS lines. Jünger Audio significantly


altered the way it markets its audio processing technology, separating its hardware from its featureset to provide customers with individually tailored products. The new strategy will see the company’s hardware marketed as universal processing platforms while established brands such as T*AP, M*AP


and V*AP are used to identify


different application packages. Jünger’s managing director


Peter Pörs said, “There is now a trend among some of our customers to use products like the T*AP [Television Audio Processor] for applications such as radio or PA. Our new strategy acknowledges this and allows Jünger Audio’s highly recognised functionality packages previously known as T*AP and M*AP to live on in common hardware.” Lawo highlighted several


products, including an improved mc256 console, available in five


frame sizes (from 16- to 80-faders). The


hub of the operation is a


touchscreen in the central GUI and features include permanent metering of the 16 central faders, more directly accessible parameters, nine individually assignable user buttons, illuminated rotary knobs, large trackball buttons and a new integrated RTW goniometer. Lawo also demonstrated its


mc266 console, which boasts 888 DSP channels and 144 summing buses along with top quality signal processing. The manufacturer also has integrated loudness metering on all its MC2 consoles, complying fully with the EBU/R128 and ATSC/A85 requirements. Riedel Communications announced its MediorNet fibre- based signal transport system is


the R-88 8-track recorder and mixer for recordists who currently record in stereo but want to switch to multichannel recording, plus those who need more channels than existing 4-channel recorders. German audio specialist Sennheiser has re-engineered its broadcast headset series, the HMD/HME 26, and presented Mark II versions. The new 26-II Series comprises various headset models with dynamic (HMD) and pre-polarised condenser (HME) mics, as well as a model with Sennheiser’s NoiseGard active noise cancellation, designed for working in extremely noisy environments. Sennheiser


also


showed off its new ESFERA surround microphone system. The ESFERA provides 5.1 surround sound from just two channels, reducing the need for complicated surround mic installations. It is due for release in March 2014. ESFERA only uses two of the four audio inputs on a broadcast camera, and throughout the production process the audio remains in sync with the video and is only decoded into 5.1 during the last production step. It is also the first system that allows the recording of 5.1 surround sound from a wireless camera.


Channel ID Sommer Cable came to the show with a series of ‘problem fixers’ including its DVM-120-HPA variable phones amp, a multi- purpose dual channel mini mixer with XLR inputs, tone control and level control and the DVM- 120-PBS headphones beltpack system, a tethered, purely analogue and latency-free personal monitoring device. Other products include the DVM-120-TDI tube direct box, the DVM-120-HZDI high- impedance dual direct box, the DVM-120-DDI dual direct box and DVM-120-DLI dual line box.


The biggest news at Germany’s sono Studiotechnik was not a product launch, but its merger with competitor and sometime collaborator, VTS Studiotechnik. The new company will be called sonovts GMBH. SSL debuted new V6 software


for the C100 HDS digital broadcast console with a string of new features. The V6 upgrade includes Function Key Macros


BroaMan’s new SDI-Intercom


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