AudioMedia - December 2008 - (Page 14) geo focus: The Wor ld 2008 has proved to be a difficult year for the pro audio and recording industries. But there have been some reasons to be cheerful. JIM EVANS makes his selection. Moscow’s NTV Invests In Euphonix USSIA – Euphonix has announced that Russian TV Company, NTV, has installed a 48-fader Euphonix System 5-B mixing console at its Moscow-based broadcast facility. As one of the country’s only private television channels with federal status, NTV earned its reputation for its honest and accurate newscasts. Founded in 1993, today NTV not only reaches 120 million Russian viewers, but also broadcasts to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Western Europe, parts of Asia, the United States, and Canada. Earlier this year, the station repaired and renovated its infrastructure, re-equipped its station, increased its broadcast signal, and expanded its programming to include feature films, popular talk shows, and regular television series. “We consider the Euphonix System 5-B to be the basis for future modernisations of our studios as we transition to fully digital broadcasting,” said Lyudmila Anisina, Head of the NTV Broadcasting Department. “Our audio engineers have quickly mastered the Euphonix console, and they look forward to the wide range of possibilities it offers, especially the numerous analogue and digital I/O interfaces, controls and resources.” R S European First For Savalas composition by Savalas Music. Savalas moved into Film City Glasgow at the beginning of 2007, having outgrown its previous facilities. When it came to equipping the new room, Head of Systems and Mixer Sinclair, and the Savalas team worked to a tight budget. “Every single penny was accounted for. Our entire engineering budget for this room probably would not even have bought a Neve.” he says. “We had to be clever. Fortunately we did two or three projects over in Main Stream in Copenhagen. Europeans are a little bit more forward thinking when it comes to studio equipment and we learnt a lot from them. They are more inclined towards experimentation. Main Stream’s a busy studio reflecting the thriving Danish film industry. They’ve got two theatres and are always busy, doing about twenty films a year.” Marketing Manager Owen Thomas notes, “Historically, there has been no base for full feature film post in Scotland. Now, the rest of the world can see that Savalas is capable of that scale of work. Clients can come here with confidence COTLAND – Glasgow’s Govan district is home to the first Dolby Premier certificated theatre in Europe. This facility, designed by UK-based White Mark, is an integral part of Savalas, Scotland’s biggest audio post production facility and whose studio complex is housed within Film City Glasgow, a media production initiative located within the former Govan Town Hall. Inside this imposing brick building that dates from 1887, there is more than a little 21st century technology to be found. Savalas was established 10 years ago by composers and film mixers Kahl Henderson, Giles Lamb and Michael Mackinnon. Alongside its Dolby Premier theatre, Savalas has a Foley and ADR stage, two TV dubbing studios, and three sound suites – all designed by White Mark. These are used to provide audio postproduction for TV and commercials, a fully supervised audio post and sound design service for feature films, and high-end bespoke music SSL In Hanoi VIETNAM – Solid State Logic has announced the sale of a C200 HD broadcast audio console to Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV). Based in Hanoi, VOV is the State radio broadcaster, and broadcasts six channels of news, cultural programming, and music. VOV recently built a new radio theatre in Hanoi that is used for a wide range of live-to-air productions and multi-track recording duties, while still being flexible enough to provide – when necessary – post production functions and front-of-house feeds. The console chosen for the theatre by VOV is a 48-frame version, with 96 in-line channels. It will be supplied with SSL’s C-SB remote stage box, which provides 48 24-bit microphone inputs, plus analogue outputs for local monitoring. SSL’s Area Sales Manager for SE Asia and China Anthony Gofton: “‘VOV first made contact via our website, which led in turn to a series of meetings and ultimately a highly significant sale.” 14 Sonacom’s Xynergi FRANCE – Post production specialist Sonacom has transformed its facility in Neuilly sur Seine by installing Fairlight Xynergi desktop media creation systems in each of its four High Definition 5.1 surround sound studios. The full service facility, which counts major French broadcasters and advertising agencies among its clients, managed the transformation in less than three days with the help of staff from Fairlight’s French distributor, EuroMedia Technologies. Denis Derigent, Managing Director of EuroMedia Technologies, says: “We started the installation on Friday night and had to have it completed by Monday morning in time for a client booking. Sonacom is one of the first Fairlight customers in the world to completely transfer to Xynergi, and the main challenge we faced was ensuring that the engineers adapted to their new environment in such a short timeframe. It was very tough and very sudden, but they were incredibly motivated.” AUDIO MEDIA DECEMBER 2008 Berlin Refurb GERMANY – Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall (Berlin Philharmonie) is one of the city’s cultural icons. Its unique, pentagonally-shaped Great Hall has been praised for its intimate ambience and stellar acoustics. It now boasts a new Meyer Sound system. “In a concert hall of this calibre there are limitations on what can be done in terms of sound reproduction,” says Klaus-Peter Groß, the hall’s Audio Engineer. Provided by Berlin-based Werner Audi, the system is a multi-faceted design that creates natural imaging localising two sound sources. A centre array of 12 M1D ultracompact curvilinear array loudspeakers is augmented by five UPJunior ultracompact Vario loudspeakers, which provide the source point imaging. A second array of five M1D loudspeakers is positioned above the choir position at the rear of the stage, with three arrays of two UPJ-1P compact Vario loudspeakers. Each M1D array is equipped with a customised grille built by Werner.
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