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broadcastnews UNITED KINGDOM FRANCE Riverside’s new VENUE Bel serves up tennis audio By Kevin Hilton
RIVERSIDE TV Studios is building a new broadcast studio at its west London facilities, complete with a sound control room featuring an Avid VENUE Profile mixing desk. Studio 2 will be converted into a fully featured TV facility to meet the growing demand for production space and is due to be completed by the end of August. The focus of the sound gallery will be an Avid VENUE Profile, which will offer 32 mic/line inputs, 16 AES inputs with eight analogue and eight AES outboard hardware inserts on 24 physical banked faders, said Duncan Stewart, technical director of Riverside TV. Studio 1 features an Avid VENUE D-Show, which was installed in 2006 to replace an
Riverside was once the venue for the BBC’s Top of the Pops
By Erica Basnicki
ageing 48-channel Drake console. Stewart says that at the time Riverside TV was working on a number of music programmes and was familiar with touring desks like the VENUE. “Given a tight budget it seemed a good fit,” he comments. “It was very cost effective and band producers
could get the broadcast sound they wanted quickly. VENUE’s integration with Pro Tools also makes it a doddle to multitrack 64 lines as a session for post production.” Stewart “anticipates” that Studio 2 will open again during early September. n
www.riversidetv.co.uk
BEL DIGITAL Audio’s new 1U 3G HD/SDI audio and audio/video confidence monitors were deployed at Roland Garros in Paris, site of the second of this year’s four tennis ‘Grand Slam’ tournaments. Dry hire specialists Presteigne Charter installed Bel’s 16-channel, 3G HD devices in the broadcast centre, which has been constructed for major US broadcasters to cover the event for their home audiences. The new 1U devices were launched at this year’s BVE London and have found favour with Roy Callow, director of projects for Presteigne Charter: “The three essential criteria for this kind of project are a high level of functionality and flexibility, ease and speed of
Bel Audio’s Craig Lovell at Broadcast Video Expo earlier this year
use, and the smallest dimensions achievable when you consider the limited confines the control room team are working within. “Bel’s solution to configuration
was ideal for our needs. When you are configuring via a touchscreen or complex menu structures when speed is of the essence… with the rotary controls it really is simplicity itself.”n
www.beldigital.com
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