Jnger Audio T*AP Processors Sing Sweetly At Eurovision Song Contest

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Jun 9, 2011 8:00 AM

Jnger Audio's T*AP Television Audio Processor played a key segment in assisting German open broadcaster NDR broach overwhelming audio from the new 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. More than 100 million people worldwide tuned in to watch the contest, that took place in Dsseldorf and was won by Azerbaijan contestants Nigar Jamal and Eldat Gasimov. Traditionally, the national open broadcaster of the nation hosting the contest is accountable is to broadcast. This year the charge fell to NDR, in shut team-work with the EBU and more than 40 participating associate broadcasters from opposite Europe.

Based in Hamburg, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) is a open air wave and television broadcaster that transmits to audiences in Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. NDR is moreover a associate of the ARD consortium.

Ulli Fricke, a sound operative from NDR and head of sound at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, was accountable is to audio output. He says 4 of Jnger Audio's T*AP Television Audio Processors were used is to general broadcast, conducting dynamics manage opposite both the stereo and 5.1 approximate sound mixes. Two were deployed is to song blend and two is to last mix. In all cases they were used in conjunction with Stagetec Aurus digital consoles. NDR moreover used a fifth T*AP section for national German delivery out of Hamburg.

Ulli Fricke says, "We combined well-defined but coexisting mixes for stereo and 5.1 approximate sound and you moreover had a full 'hot' backup system."

Jnger Audio's T*AP Television Audio Processor is a wideband eight-channel processor (8x1, 4x2, or 6+2) that focuses on automatic and adaptive intensity manage using Jnger Audio's eminent LEVEL MAGIC algorithm. It is entirely agreeable with ATSC, ITU and EBU R128 intensity recommendations and is essentially written for TV playout facilities, where it can supply intensity control, upmix and surround-sound processing. Optional Dolby decoding and encoding (D, D+, or Pulse), together with metadata management, are supposing along with 5.1 downmix and Jnger's not long ago upgraded 5.1 UPMIX circuit.

Prior to the Eurovision Song Contest, Jnger Audio worked keenly with NDR's technical group to make sure that the T*AP units delivered precisely what the broadcaster needed. This meant incorporating a few customizations.

Fricke said, "We longed for the aptitude to simply and concurrently manage tying and application for stereo and 5.1 approximate sound."

Peter Poers, handling executive of Jnger Audio, adds, "NDR has used Jnger Audio's dynamics manage units for many years and has always been cheerful with its audio estimate performance. On this occasion, NDR came to us with a special solicit - for approximate dynamics estimate in multiple with intensity control. This was something you had not tackled before but you were able to encounter their solicit by creation a few tiny customizations to our new, flagship T*AP television audio processor. This enabled us to encounter their expectations with courtesy to sound high quality and timeframe. The Eurovision Song Contest is a really well esteemed live prolongation and you were gay that it acted as a launch eventuality for our new T*AP."

Ulli Fricke adds that being segment of the Eurovision Song Contest was a wonderful experience. "This was something that I will may usually do once in my lifetime," he says. "We had so ample fun with all of the 43 broadcasters involved, and I feel really fortunate to have had the chance to work on such a prestigious event. It was a logistical dare since you had really little time between any deed to change the entire stage. But everybody played their segment and it was similar to lots of tiny gears working in one large machine. The finish outcome was a outrageous success."