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RadioDNShas announced that RadioDNS Hybrid Radio is now integrated into three Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Chair of RadioDNS, Nick Piggott, said: “This is an exceptional opportunity for radio broadcasters.”
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Presteigne Broadcast Hire supplied around 55 Sennheiser wireless mic systems for the audition phases of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, which is due to air in spring 2014. Systems engineer David Handley says that BGT“can’t get much bigger” because of changes in frequency allocation.
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CAST BlackTrax attacks 3D audio market By Kevin Hilton
BLACKTRAX, PART of the CAST group of lighting design and video imaging software developers, has appointed Christopher Jenkins (pictured) to run its new audio operation. Jenkins is president and chief
executive of US sound post- production facility BISBY Corporation and has worked as a re-recording mixer as well as having been an executive at Universal Studios and Todd-AO.
The stated aim of BlackTrax
Audio is to adapt its parent company’s 3D image positioning and tracking technology for the sound domain to produce spatial systems for television and film production, as well as live events. Bruce Freeman, chairman of the CAST Group, comments that with 3D already being done for visuals, new audio technology combined with BlackTrax’s live data streaming system can do the same for sound.
and scientists, it’s audiences that are the big winners.” Speaking about his new
role, Christopher Jenkins says, “BlackTrax is a beautiful creative tool that will transform the way that we experience audio integrated with lighting, visuals and performers to engage, thrill and immerse audiences. Taking advantage of
BlackTrax Audio’s Chris Jenkins “BlackTrax delivers the data
which pinpoints the 6D precise target information to bring ‘live’ alive and life into playback,” he says. “While 3D audio is the Holy Grail for sound engineers
UNITED KINGDOM BVE 2014: in short! By Murray Stassen
A NUMBER of new products and features were launched at the BVE tradeshow in London last month, which took place from 25-27 February at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Included were HHB
Communication’s new TC Electronic Reverb 8 algorithm for the System 6000 audio processing platform, the unbalanced AES I/O option for the DB6 Broadcast Audio Processor and a new Loudness Quality Logger (LQL) for TouchMonitors. Sennheiser showcased several
new products, including the RF Over Fibre system, which extends radio microphone remote receiving aerials to distances of up to 25km from their associated receivers. New studio-monitoring equipment was exhibited too, such as the Neumann KH 310 and KH 120 monitor loudspeakers along with their associated sub, the KH 810, the Sennheiser HD 26 Pro headphones and the HMD Mk II Series broadcast headsets and LimitEar HDM Pro. German-based Broadcast
Technologies exhibited its Virtual Studio Manager (VSM)
system. VSM provides users with tools for 4K, remote production, streaming, signal path visualisation and multi- channel broadcasting. VSM provides users with tools for 4K, remote production, streaming, signal path visualisation and multi-channel broadcasting. It can be used to manage On Air and rehearsal requests as well as monitoring the signals and devices in the MCR environment. Professional voice
communications provider Clear- Com, unveiled the new Eclipse HX-Delta Digital Matrix System, the extended HelixNet Partyline Intercom System and the upgraded Tempest 2400 Wireless Intercom System at BVE. TSL Products demonstrated its SoundField surround sound microphones, control units and upmix/downmix processors. The microphones that were on display were the battery powered ST450 portable microphone system and the DSF-1 digital performance microphone.
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developments in audio digital signal processing technology, we’ll be actively embracing opportunities for BlackTrax in Europe and the Americas.” BlackTrax states that it will “accelerate and increase its international presence over the next few months in the audio world.”
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