All Mobile Video Adopts SoundField UPM-1 Upmix Processor

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Nov 11, 2011 12:34 PM

All Mobile Video (AVM), a New York-based outward broadcast, uplink and soundstage services company, has purchased 3 SoundField UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 audio upmix processors. The sale is the initial to be rubbed by SoundField's newly allocated US distributor, Wohler Technologies.

AMV, that moreover owns New Jersey-based heavenly body uplink and downlink trickery Gateway, covers large-scale outward announce events inclusive the MTV Music Video Awards, and such sports fixtures as the US Open golf contest and World Athletics Championships, together with handling the OB and uplink mandate of the New York Metropolitan Opera's periodic general simulcasts to cinemas in Europe and Asia.

Upmixing has been a necessity in many areas of AMV's business for a couple of years now, as All Mobile Video's head audio operative and audio growth dilettante Ian Vysick explained: "We casing many live-to-theatre events, but if any tools of the delivery package have been recorded, or if a uncover is a re-run and is forthcoming off tape, then the taped audio is always stereo.

"Most amend houses and prolongation companies still can't hoop 5.1. But nonetheless, these transmissions are often played in cinemas with approximate sound systems, so we've had a periodic necessity for a few means of generating approximate from stereo. We've been using a accumulation of upmixers.

"Although these comparison boxes work well on talk element and movie soundtracks, I've felt for a few time that there was room for alleviation on low-pitched content. We casing a lot of low-pitched shows. I've attempted tweaking things, but modifying on the comparison processors is not fast; it involves accessing a lot of low menus and steady button-pressing. So when Wohler referred to we try the UPM-1, we asked them to bring one to a live low-pitched eventuality we was mixing.

"I couldn't have hoped for a improved test, as the uncover was non-stop by a rope churned in stereo, then there was a movie with a stereo soundtrack, and then there was an interview," Vysick said. "So that covered the 3 leading types of calm we always have to obtain in to 5.1: music, movie soundtracks and dialogue. we was moreover able to compare the UPM-1 with our existing processors.

"It took all of about 30 seconds to confirm that was most appropriate - the UPM-1 was precisely what I'd been seeking for. It was more innate sounding, and moreover elementary to set up, with only a couple of knobs on the front, and no symbol pushing.

"It's not only me, either. I'm only finishing a few work with the Philadelphia Philharmonic, and the announce blend operative there mistook the UPM-1's 5.1-from-stereo upmix for a discrete-channel blend from his 5.1 stems. He mentioned it was the only viable upmix he'd ever heard, and couldn't think how great it sounded."