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Trilogy Win Oman Deal
GBR: Trilogy Communications has been awarded the contract to supply audio communications and referencing equipment to Oman radio. This award is part of a signiﬁcant refurbishment to the broadcaster’s radio studio facilities – including audio consoles, routers and communications. The work is to be carried out by systems integrator All Systems International. The contract covers both a Gemini Intercom system for audio communications and Mentor XL Master Reference Generators.

Auralex Room For Acoustical Expertise
producing his voice over work there, Bell has expanded his new studio to include commercial audio production, music tracking and mixing. “We plugged in our issues to Auralex’s Personalised Room Analysis Form (PRAF) and the analysis was able to ﬁgure out where our issues were and how to treat them,” says Bell. “Plus, since I was doing the installation, working with the analysis and having someone else lay out a plan for me just made the whole process that Retaining the look of an 1887 sound space much easier.” 12 Jeff Bell Voice Over, who provides commercial voice over for top brands such as Ford, SPIKE TV, MAVtv and many others, has recently turned to Auralex to outﬁt his new studio. In addition to recording and Bell wanted to retain the historic look of the former warehouse. Built in 1887, the building had many acoustical obstacles, including exposed brick walls and an atrium with two large windows. He installed a number of SonoFlats in the control room around the mix position, along with several LENRD Bass Traps and SonoColumn Bass Traps in the corners. The live room also features SonoFlats, LENRDs and SonoColumns, along with Studiofoam Wedges. Bell also placed several two-inch and fourinch Auralex Studiofoam Wedges throughout the two ISO booths. Bell’s new space features a control room, a live room and two ISO booths.

Multi-channel Volicon Observer
USA: Volicon has released the Observer digital video monitoring and logging system in a conﬁguration tailored to multichannel broadcast management and monitoring applications. The system can provide highquality live or recorded content directly to desktops, as well as executives’ smart devices. Integrating into existing broadcast infrastructures, it gives users remote access to live or recorded video from any station. The system offers multiple simultaneous users 24/7 access to video from their desktop computers, iOS or Android devices.

DPA Launches d:facto Vocal Microphone
DPA Microphones launched its handheld d:facto vocal mic at the 2012 NAB Show. Building on the success of the DPA reference standard cardioid 4011 microphone, the company has pooled its years of expertise and resources to bring the eagerly awaited, high-quality vocal condenser mic to the broadcast market. Providing broadcasters with a DPA handheld microphone for live broadcast performances or those being recorded for DVD, the d:facto offers natural sound, high separation and extreme SPL handling. The result is a supercardioid mic with superb deﬁnition, excellent separation and breathtakingly natural sound, giving viewers at home the feeling of being right there in the audience. Similar to all DPA mics, d:facto features superior gain-beforefeedback, while the robust threestage pop protection grid built into the microphone effectively removes unwanted noise. The d:facto boasts exceptional isolation from handling noise as well as the ability to accommodate extreme sound levels. The microphone head can be used on the DPA wired handle and can also be unscrewed for mounting onto a Wisycom wireless microphone system. The d:facto has already been put through its paces on several highproﬁle TV shows over the past six months, among them are Voice of Denmark.

PIX-DOCK Boost
USA: Sound Devices unveiled a Thunderbolt-enabled PIX-DOCK for drives mounted in a PIX-CADDY. The PIX-CADDY, which is used to connect SSD volumes to all PIX recorders, also operates as a multi-format interface to attach the SSD to a computer for ﬁle transfer and management. Thunderbolt’s fast transfer speeds between drives and computers – at up to 10Gbps.

DPA’s d:facto Vocal Takes to the stage

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