TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Miranda Technologies Rolls Out New Loudness Monitor
WITH LOUDNESS on everyone in the broadcast industry’s mind, Miranda Technologies has launched an IP-based loudness processing platform offering a cost-effective solution for multichannel broadcasters. Scott Murray, Miranda’s senior vice president, Core Products, said: “Increasingly, broadcasters produce a large channel count that requires monitoring and correction for each audio channel to ensure quality of experience and meet loudness requirements. Unfortunately, that can be costly, particularly in baseband, for broadcasters. “The Axino range guarantees audio compliance at the compressed end of the signal path, ensuring no further anomalies can be reintroduced to already
processed and compliant audio channels prior to distribution. Making that advanced processing available in the form of the Axino-400 ensures that those with more modest monitoring requirements can guarantee compliance without having to pay for processing power they don’t need.”
The Axino-400 retains the
performance of the original Axino-410, which is a high- channel count solution for cable and satellite television operators, but uses a scaled- down server that addresses a reduced channel count and
facilitates a more cost-effective solution. Broadcasters can monitor up to 40 channels from one device that will find and repair loudness irregularities using Miranda’s Automatic Loudness Control. The measurement and
correction processes are performed in real time with no effect on video quality. In addition, audio processing can be optimised by selecting loudness control profiles that best match the type of programming and the speed of reaction required.
www.miranda.com
dbx Presents DriveRack PA2
HARMAN’S DBX has introduced its DriveRack PA2 Loudspeaker Management System, which enables a loudspeaker system to be quickly and accurately optimised for the best-possible sound quality. The DriveRack PA2 can be set up and operated from an
Android, iOS, Mac, or Windows device. An all-new Wizard utility makes setup easier and faster, and users have access to a host of configuration menus and on their mobile device, with full-colour graphical displays that give ready visual indications of the parameters being adjusted. It can also be operated via its front-panel controls and display.
The DriveRack PA2’s improved AutoEQ enables
automatic and precise equalisation of the loudspeakers to the venue in which they’re installed to achieve smoother, more accurate in-room frequency response. A new AFS Advanced Feedback Suppression feature automatically finds and dials out any problematic feedback-producing frequencies. The PA2 offers numerous additional system-tuning and
sonic optimisation capabilities, including dbx compression, graphic and eight-band parametric EQ, limiting,
loudspeaker time alignment and time delay, and more.
www.harman.com
www.audiomedia.com
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