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Jun 9, 2012 5:36 PM, By Gary Eskow
Martin Dyster is Head of Audio at TSL Professional Products . Dyster's experience in the veteran audio and announce industries spans a 26-year period. He is a associate of the Royal Television Society and the Institute of Broadcast Sound.
1) What leading trends, if any, do you see receiving place in the audio for announce industry?
MD - Audio continues to turn more intricate as the urge for multi-signal prolongation workflow increases globally. Technology is elaborating to keep gait with a world where elementary embedded stereo is probably a thing of the past and 16 channels might be deliberate the minimum number compulsory to broach today's television. MADI has seen resurgence, simply since it is a available and cheap means to ride up to 64 channels of audio via the announce infrastructure. However, it is a antiquated technology that may be tough to confederate between apparatus built by not similar manufacturers and is doubtful to rise over its stream status.
The future for audio in the longer tenure contingency of course be audio over IP, however, the bolt of not similar formats and latency problems meant that an open and zodiacally adoptable standard, that could turn the announce audio infrastructure of the future, is a few way off.
Loudness manage and monitoring waste a prohibited topic. Broadcasters go on to adopt solutions to guarantee their calm from lawsuit brought about by a disaster to encounter intensity regulations or smoothness criteria, so gadgets that can manage intensity in both real-time and record formed environments proliferate. Monitoring and logging solutions give serve harmony of thoughts that a fine from the regulator or a returned assignment isn't about to tumble by the door.
The universal commotion for multichannel audio inside of announce radio and the difficulty that handling it brings leads manufacturers fundamentally towards more elementary to run or even programmed manage and monitoring solutions. Audio network infrastructures right away rest more on essential element and reduction copper connectivity while reduction earthy hardware is conducting sufficient more estimate than it ever has before.
2) Is digital technology stability to contract the hole between "high" and "low" finish audio gear?
MD - It is apropos increasingly tough to conclude where low-end audio finishes and high-end audio begins. The marketplace for audio consoles for e.g. has seen a fighting being fought is to $50K to $100K cost bracket. This is a cost rope that might be deliberate to act for the lower-end of the leading brands product portfolio while still imprinting a substantial responsibility to the broadcaster. Considered maybe as the low-end of the same market, audio consoles from the likes of Yamaha that arguably act for a immaculately viable answer frequency cost in surplus of $20K.
Many leading broadcasters would never ponder investing in a Yamaha console whereas others find them a immaculately adequate alternative, permitting them to show off their bill for what they might righteously call high-end.
Ultimately, the defining criteria justifying a high or low finish cost label are erect quality, sonic performance, specification, features and brand perception. The hole between high and low finish audio rigging may not be timorous sufficient but the acceptance of brands that may be deliberate low-end is stepping up as worth for allowance and mercantile purgation are more critical to the bill makers than sonic opening is to the engineer.
3) Does TSL have a business plan in place that will enable the firm to go on to offer its customers the aptitude "to descend costs, produce income and streamline operations" over the next 5 to 10 years?
MD - These 3 goals are what you essay to do as a business every day, and they're at the forefront of our growth roadmap.
If you take our AVM-T-MIX (Touchmix) products, they give the same functionality as 3 well-defined pieces of kit. Effectively, it's a router, mixer and guard in one unit, that saves allowance and space in any TV hire or OB truck. The Touchmix is moreover written with a user interface that is more discerning for imaginative operators.
Directors, producers, editors and VT operators have candid access to multi-part audio sources literally at their fingertips. This streamlines operations as you can simply daub the audio duct you instruct to hear, blend together incoming sources and even arrange particular level and change from the unit's touchscreen or with the Touchmix Pilot desktop remote manage panel. For even more convenience, intricate setup snapshots may be installed or saved using on-board mental recall locations or via the on-board USB port.
By way of taking advantage of Dolby surround, Dolby E technology, the broadcaster will be seeking to produce more income to tie in the final of the modern viewer, so our Audio product ranges, inclusive Touchmix and PAM2 accuracy audio monitoring solutions, give the means to make sure the high quality of this new technology is up to scratch. The PAM2 MK2 that you launched at NAB, for example, will be one of the initial audio monitoring solutions to underline Dolby's CAT1100 module.
This is a new stage for thorough decoding and monitoring of Dolby audio formats that are used via the HD announce sequence (Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital and Dolby E). The new procedure will enable the PAM2 MK2 to perform Dolby E decoding and outmost orator monitoring, together with Dolby Digital Plus with approximate detailed audio and stream mixing, that will evolve to 7.1 as broadcasters adopt the full cinematic experience.
TSL moreover skeleton to soak up in to the PAM2 MK2 an form of new features over the course of 2012 to residence the future of audio in the announce environment, inclusive Dialogue comprehension Loudness Measurement, coexisting Multichannel and Stereo outputs and selectable blunder concealment.
4) Are the days when there was a great order between the personal
P.C. and its veteran reflection trailing at the back us, or will there always be a place for computers written and dedicated to a singular charge or a apartment of tasks?
MD - We've been enhancing our user interfaces with any product that is expelled and if a Personal Computer helps that, then great but, all feedback continues to discuss it us that the user in front of the monitoring hire needs something simple, discerning and unobtrusive. That may meant that the Personal Computer is used by the operative to configure a remote device similar to the Touchmix Pilot or even our own rackmount solutions.
We go on to attend and learn, to lead the way by profitable consideration to our customers.
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