Allen & Heath's ZED-R16 Firewire recording mixer was awarded a prestigious MIPA (MusikMesse International Press Award) at a recent ceremony, which took place during the Pro Light & Sound show in Frankfurt. More than 100 magazines from around the world voted for their best products of 2008/9, selecting the ZED-R16 as Best Studio Console. The ZED-R16 dedicated recording mixer has … [Read more...]
RTBF chooses Fairlight Technology
RTBF, the national broadcaster for the French-speaking areas of Belgium (Brussels and Wallonia), has given Fairlight technology a major endorsement by choosing to re-fit all of its audio mixing rooms with Fairlight workstations, powered by the company's ground breaking CC-1 digital processing engine. The re-fit, which will take two years to complete, is part of the broadcaster's Numprod project … [Read more...]
BECTU publish new freelance sound rates
New recommended rates for freelance sound professionals are being published today (Wednesday 8 April). The new rates secured the backing of 97 per cent of BECTU members who took part in the consultation exercise which closed last week. The new guidance, effective from 1 April, has been designed for use by sound operators across the country and gives information on rates including and excluding … [Read more...]
L-Acoustics 2009 training seminars
L-Acoustics has announced its new 2009 training seminar schedule. The seminars have been designed for both technicians and mixing engineers and encompass the fundamental aspects of Wavefront Sculpture Technology (WST), system integration, setup, and design. They cover KIVA, dV-DOSC, KUDO and V-DOSC as well as the LA amplified controller platform and the LA Network Manager software. Seminars will … [Read more...]
Allen & Heath launches ILive-T audio interfaces
Allen & Heath will be introducing three new audio interface plug-in cards for the iLive-T digital mixing series at the Pro Light & Sound show in Frankfurt, enabling the system to interface with popular standards, including EtherSound, ADAT and Aviom. The Mini Multi-Out card has 3 optical ADAT outputs (24 channels), an Aviom 16-channel output, and 2 iDR 8-bus outputs, which are HearBus … [Read more...]
