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Martinez Lights On Location
With Zylight F8 LED Fresnels
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BC's 'The Bachelorette' CoDirector of Photography Andre
Martinez has deployed Zylight's
F8 LED Fresnel for rapid set ups.
For a gondola scene in Venice,
Italy, the gondolier was unable to
dock at the predetermined - at prelit - location.
"I needed another moonlight
source from a balcony to
accommodate the new landing
point," said Andre Martinez, who
has worked on ABC's 'The Bachelor'
and 'The Bachelorette' for several
seasons. "Running another cable
and ballast to set an HMI would
have taken a fair amount of time.
In less than ﬁve minutes, my gaffer
had a battery-powered F8 in place
and we were ready to roll."
Martinez used two Zylight F8 LED
Fresnels during a 10-week stretch
of shooting for the current season

a lot of light,
especially
considering
that you can
power it with
a battery," he
said. "It has
a really nice
quality of
light, and its
colour temp
remains true
throughout
the dial as
you dim it."
Known for
shooting
in exotic
Andre Martinez with a Zylight Z8 LED Fresnel
locations,
of 'The Bachelorette.'
the shows are exciting but
"I hope from now on to always have
challenging to shoot.
at least one Zylight F8 in my lighting
Both shows are shot in 720p for
arsenal for any project. It puts out
a less "ﬁlmic" and more "real" look.

Neumann Mics Deliver Latest On Requiem
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brand new interpretation
of Mozart's Requiem Mass
in D Minor has recently been
recorded using Neumann digital
microphones, prompting universal
praise.
The Requiem Mass in D Minor
was completed the year after the
composer's death by his student
Franz Xaver Sussmayr.
"In many ways it was a way of
rehabilitating Sussmayr," says
Phillip Hobbs, Chief Producer at
Linn Records. "Ever since Requiem
was completed, there has been a
huge amount of discussion about
whether he did a good job of it and
so people have been coming up with
new ways of ﬁnishing it ... We think
the performance we recorded is very

reasons why
N e u m a n n
m i c ro p h o n e s
are an essential
part of Hobbs'
recording
armoury. This
project saw a
pair of K 133Ds
and a pair of
D-01s deployed.
"I tried the K
133Ds about 18
Conducted by John Butt, The Dunedin Consort was
months ago and
recorded in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirk
was astonished
close to the ﬁrst performance of
by the reach, clarity and sheer lack
of noise," said Hobbs. "They are
the completed piece and, ultimately,
perfect for a building like Greyfriars
much closer to what Mozart did."
Kirk, where the reverb tail is about
Linn Records recorded everything
six seconds."
at 192kHz, which is one of the

Digigram Enables
KBS Workﬂows
KOR: Korean national broadcaster
KBS is integrating Digigram
sound cards with an Adsoft radio
broadcasting system and a Dalet
recording, editing, and media
asset management system in an
installation designed to enhance
the quality and continuity of KBS
radio and television programming.
Digigram said that the deployment
demonstrated that broadcasters of
all sizes can depend on Digigram
sound cards and count on their
interoperability with key thirdparty solutions.

Orad Ultra HD
Channel Branding
FRA: NRJ HITS has implemented
Orad's broadcast graphics solutions
to manage the channel branding for
its Ultra HD broadcast programme.
NRJ HITS broadcast in Ultra
HD on the Paris DTT network.
For the test broadcast, Orad, Pole
Experts and TDF worked with NRJ
HITS to test the Ultra HD broadcast
workﬂow to ensure interoperability
among the various solutions deployed.

RTW Legacy
Trade-In Scheme
GER: RTW has announced an
extensive trade-in programme.
Customers will have the
opportunity to exchange their existing
inventory of legacy RTW devices
for latest-generation products,
which provide loudness metering
in compliance with worldwide
standards, at attractive pricing.
Until October 31, 2014, customers
can return any number of functioning
devices from the RTW Peakmeter,
PortaMonitor, DigitalMonitor or
SurroundMonitor ranges and
purchase the same amount of new
devices in any conﬁguration at an
extra discount of 10%.

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