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Axon Digital Designhas incorporated Jünger Audio’s Level Magic loudness controller into its Synapse range of audio and video modules. Under the deal between the two companies four new audio processing units have been added to the Synapse range, featuring a customised Jünger DSP card. The four new models provide up-mixing as well as loudness control for both stereo and 5.1 surround sound.
www.axon.tv
www.junger-audio.com
Canada’s only jazz broadcaster
JAZZ.FM91 in Toronto recently took delivery of four crystal radio consoles and a Nova 17 routing system from Lawo. “Being that we are a charitable arts organisation, it is imperative we invest in equipment that not only provides the capability we require, but that also delivers exceptional value,” said Murray Johnson, technical manager.
www.lawo.de
German metering and monitoring specialist RTWhas opened a new office in the US as part of its expansion into the American market. Based in Pennsylvania the facility will offer customer service, repairs and final product assembly. Officially known as RTW International Corp, the US base is headed by Christopher Spahr.
www.rtw.de
Mirror Imagehas introduced Audio Streaming Service, a transcoding service for radio stations that enables broadcasters to deliver live audio streams at multiple bitrates and formats anywhere in the world using the HTTP protocol. The service supports MP3 (including MP3pro), AAC (including aacAAC- HE, aacPlus v1, aacPlus v2) and Ogg Vorbis file formats.
www.mirror-image.com www.radioplayer.co.uk
European online audio community channel
BE-AT.TVhas chosen QSC’s KW122 active, full-range loudspeakers with KW181 subs for its in-studio playback. There are now six pairs of the speakers in use across the three
BE-AT.TV bases (London, Amsterdam and Berlin).
BE-AT.TV delivers big-name DJ performances, and live, loud playback. “You can’t just mix a DJ set while listening on headphones – these guys are artists and they need to feel the music is happening in the room,” said Haifleigh Shivers for
BE-AT.TV.
www.be-at.tv www.qsc.com
UNITED KINGDOM Golden sales for Yellowtec iXm By Erica Basnicki
HHB COMMUNICATIONS has supplied the journalism programmes at Staffordshire University and Sheffield Hallam University with over 50 Yellowtec iXm digital recording microphones. HHB originally supplied
Staffordshire University with 21 iXms for its courses in Broadcast Journalism. The university has since expanded its stock by an additional 10 to cater for students on other broadcast-based awards. Staffordshire’s Richard Mortimer commented: “All our students are expected to produce
work of a professional standard and we pride ourselves on offering industry-level equipment and facilities for them to work with. The Yellowtec iXm is the ideal tool for our broadcast journalists.” Sheffield Hallam University also purchased 21 iXms to replace recording devices that the students found too complicated. Team leader for the Creative Media department John Blythe explained: “Our journalism students are using these mics to record interviews and other segments of their radio shows and we are very pleased with the quality of the recordings.”n
www.hhb.co.uk
CANADA/SPACE
The two universities have purchased more than 50 Yellowtec iXm microphones UNITED KINGDOM
Jungle beats the audio post drum
By Kevin Hilton
LONDON POST production company the Jungle Group is refocusing on its audio roots in a restructuring programme that includes bringing all its sound suites under one roof as part of a £500,000 (€585,000) refurbishment. Jungle’s visual effects and production divisions will continue to run as separate operations. Work has begun on removing
the walls between Jungle’s two offices on Wardour Street in Soho to form a single building. Three more sound studios will be added, bringing the facility’s total number of suites to 10. A cafe and bar is also being built. The move was prompted when
A RADIALEngineering JDI passive DI box helped connect International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Chris Hadfield with the members of Canadian band Trent Severn live on stage during a recent performance. Trent Severn’s self-titled debut album was on the astronaut’s upload request list for NASA. “He emailed us to let us know he’d like to call into a show and of course we jumped on the opportunity,” said guitarist Dayna Manning. FOH engineer Darryl Lahteenmaa explained his gear choice for a phone
call from – literally – out of this world. “For a one-time call from the ISS, we weren’t taking any chances. The Radial JDI has proven itself time after time in every situation we have put it through so we knew we could trust it. And when the call from the Commander came though, I didn’t even think of the gear, I just enjoyed the moment. The JDI gave me complete peace of mind.” Hadfield has gathered a huge
Twitter following after posting unique pictures of the Earth from orbit.n
www.radialeng.com
Jungle was not given a new lease on its premises in Dean Street after the landlord decided to redevelop the site into residential property. This led to Jungle’s management revaluating its business and resolving to move away from VFX and production work and concentrate on audio as there would not be room for both in Wardour Street. “While initially a huge shock,
the forced closure of our Dean Street facility provides a great opportunity to reassess Jungle’s
Graham Ebbs, Jungle Group
business model and the services we offer,” comments Jungle’s managing director, Graham Ebbs. “Jungle has always been best known for its excellence in audio post and this was a major factor in our decision to go back to our roots and focus on audio and music design.” Ebbs added that although VFX and production will “no longer be part of Jungle’s portfolio”, the company is to continue working closely with those teams, which will trade in their own right.
All studios in the Wardour
Street facility will feature Fairlight Xynergi DAWs with EVO mixing desks and be on a full network. Studio building work is being carried out by specialist company Oakwood, with interiors designed by Guy Wilson of AKA Design. Work is due to be finished by the end of July. n
www.thejunglegroup.co.uk
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