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Broadcast Operating Levels

Audio Operating LevelsAnalogue broadcast audio console in Korea

EBU or SMPTE? VU or PPM? Dbu or DBFS? An array of standards and specifications with which the new entrant into broadcast audio confronts. Broadcasters have standardised on one or the other as a matter of history, and of good engineering practice as defined by specifying bodies.

But how many professionals understand the difference and the consequences of operating level? How does it relate to digital consoles, DBFS scales, and to the programme content?
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Midas PRO6 In Demand

Midas announces huge demand for its new PRO6 Live Audio System, the company’s second networked digital audio system, which employs technologies developed from the groundbreaking XL8 in a compact package.

Among the first clients to place orders for the PRO6 are Irish rental companies MG Audio and Murt Whelan Sound and Lighting, who have each purchased a PRO6 system from local distributor Sound Communications. The companies are located on the east and southwest of the country respectively, and work closely together on a number of festivals and larger events. Both companies feel their PRO6 purchases will further enhance this arrangement.

 

DPA Mics Triple Stockhausen Orchestra

More than 50 DPA 4060 and 4061 miniature mics have been used for a production of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Gruppen – a piece for three orchestras – performed during the Berliner Festival in late September.

The epic piece was performed four times as part of the festival finale by the Berliner Philharmonika with conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding and Michael Boder, in a 1930s aircraft hangar at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.