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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 8 | August 2015

InAudio

Jünger To Demo 'Immersive'
Audio Tools At 2015 IBC Show

J

ünger Audio will use the IBC 2015
platform to show a prototype audio
monitoring solution that will allow
broadcasters to check the quality of
all immersive audio transmissions,
regardless of format.
It will also help maintain compliance
with existing loudness regulations,
while avoiding the known processing
artefacts of traditional loudness
control approaches.
The hardware-based product, which
will be demonstrated on Jünger
Audio's IBC stand, will offer a future
platform to host all the emerging
immersive 3D audio encoding formats
from different vendors, including
MPEG-H TV audio system and Dolby's
immersive audio system.
"Building
on
our
long-term
experience
of
designing
and
manufacturing
dedicated
audio
processing products for digital TV
production, we are actively engaged

in developing this multichannel
immersive audio monitoring processor
ready for the next generation audio
for TV broadcast," says Peter Poers,
Jünger Audio's Managing Director.
"We envisage that this solution will
be deployed not just in production
and post-production, but at all
stages of the audio workflow where
programmes running future immersive
audio standards need to be controlled
or monitored effectively."
Comprising of a combination of
hardware containing I/O, decoding
stage, monitoring functionality, audio
control software and an advanced
user interface, the unit allows for
monitoring and auditioning of up to 16
channels of audio.
All metadata including dynamic
description of included objects for
3D projection, or personalisation of
audio services can be handled and
controlled. A variety of physical input

and output formats will be offered
including SDI, MADI and AoIP. For
object based encoded content, the
graphical interface allows the user to
perform 3D panning for audio objects
to move and pan them around the
screen, along with controlling the
level.
There is also the option of the
personalisation of services through the
selection of alternative audio objects
such as commentator languages.
"Our solution is truly agnostic in
terms of encoding format," Poers
adds. "It will be positioned between
the
mixing
console and the
transmission
chain and at any
point where real
audio must be
monitored again.
At the push of a
button, users will

be able to configure it to work with any
codec on the market."
At IBC 2015, Jünger Audio will show
its audio monitoring system working
with the Fraunhofer IIS MPEG-H TV
Audio System.
Poers adds that integrating effective
loudness control with the new
immersive audio formats will be a vital
requirement right from the outset,
because it will allow broadcasters to
maximise audio quality and ensure
that loudness is consistent and
compliant with existing regulations
and recommendations.

Jünger Audio will demo 3D audio tools
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