Understanding Microphone Technique: An Easy Mic Primer for New Users
By Clark Novak on Nov 19, 2024 5:58:12 PM
Using a microphone properly isn't as easy as it looks. Here are tips to get new users on the right track.
Read MoreTopics: Radio Technology, 2024, Studio Basics
Ask The Omnia Guy: "Can My Omnia.9 Apply Nielsen Watermarking to HD and Streaming Channels?"
By The Telos Alliance Team on Nov 8, 2024 6:43:23 PM
Welcome to another edition of "Ask The Omnia Guy", a continuing series of expert answers by the Omnia guy, Paul Kriegler, to real-world questions from our electronic mailbag. Our question:
Q: "Hey Omnia Guy - If I purchase the Nielsen watermark license for our Omnia.9, can it encode our HD channels as well as our streams?"
A: Short answer: Yes! The latest version of Omnia.9 software allows you to watermark any program stream your Omnia.9's processing.
Read MoreTopics: Streaming Audio, audio watermarking, Omnia.9, broadcast audio processor, HD Radio, Neilsen
Yannick Olivier, lead broadcast engineer, France Télévisions, and Costa Nikols, strategy advisor, M&E, Telos Alliance, look at the future of sport audio
Major live events like the Paris games, Paralympics and UEFA Euro 2024 dominated TV screens and drew in millions of audiences around the world this past summer. While growing investment in 4K UHD and ever-increasing demand for superior viewing quality push broadcasters and streaming services to innovate with more immersive on-screen experiences, there’s an unsung hero that has underpinned every cup final, gold-medal race and penalty shootout: the audio.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Sporting Events, 2024, S-ADM, Immersive Audio
The Importance Of Choosing The Right Tools For Loudness Processing
By Graham Tudball on Oct 11, 2024 12:25:32 PM
Why “Good Enough”
isn’t always enough
We all know the importance of choosing the right tools for a job. The same principle should apply when it comes to processing audio.
Read MoreTopics: TV Loudness Management, Audio Loudness, audio processing software, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus
AudioTools Server lets you share licenses for best efficiency
From an early age, we’re always told that sharing is good, whether that be sharing your favorite toy with a sibling or sharing the workload with a friend or colleague. But did you know that you can also share your AudioTools Server licenses?
Topics: audio processing software, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus, Licensing
S-ADM: What It Is, Why It Matters For Next Generation TV Production
By Larry Schindel on Jul 16, 2024 5:59:12 PM
Examining and implementing
S-ADM workflows
Serial ADM (S-ADM) is metadata that describes the elements of an audio program to enable object-based personalization in TV productions. It is defined in ITU-R BS.2125 and is starting to be adopted. This summer (2024), France TV and other European broadcasters will use it for the first time in broadcasts of some large-scale sporting events.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, 2024, S-ADM
Great audio is essential to keep listeners coming back
If you are in the radio industry it’s probably not too much of a stretch to say that “sound is everything”. You work hard to develop that signature sound that helps your station(s) to stand out when listeners scan the airwaves. Telos has long recognized this importance and hopefully many of you will already be using products from our Omnia line to do just that. But what if you also want to make your content available on demand? How can you ensure that your podcast audio inherits the same signature sound that is so important in your on-air transmissions, and ensure that it stands out in a crowded market?
Read MoreTopics: Audio Loudness, Podcasting, audio processing software, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus, OmniaTools
Don't put them off, or they might put you off the air
Every broadcast engineer tasked with the care and feeding of a transmitter site likely has a checklist of tasks to perform on a regular basis. The frequency of regular visits will depend on a variety of factors, including accessibility, proximity, time, and whatever else the universe sees fit to hurl at us on any given day.
Read MoreTopics: Broadcast Engineering, 2024, infrastructure, Maintenance
White Paper: S-ADM Authoring & Monitoring with flexAI
By The Telos Alliance Team on Jun 12, 2024 12:10:42 PM
NGA Metadata Format S-ADM and Jünger Audio flexAI
Serialized ADM (S-ADM) metadata describes the referenced audio to enable object-based Next Generation Audio (NGA) productions. This white paper introduces our concept to enable S-ADM production workflows in the Jünger Audio flexible audio infrastructure flexAI for Dolby® Atmos distribution. Various audio processors can be added and routed internally to set up different broadcast chains. These processors can run on the AIXpressor and a range of flexAIserver audio processing servers. This allows for meeting various processing power and interfacing capability requirements. Examples of applications:
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Junger, flexAI, S-ADM
EAS at the Edge℠ - What does that mean, and why should I care?
By Guest Author on May 23, 2024 2:49:19 PM
EAS alert distribution finally realizes the benefits of AoIP
Guest editorial by Bill Robertson, VP Business Development, Digital Alert Systems, Inc.
(At NAB Show 2024, Telos Alliance, Digital Alert Systems, and Nautel announced a joint technical collaboration designed not only to complete the all-AoIP air chain but to give broadcasters more control, reliability, and flexibility in EAS implementation. - Ed.)
U.S. Broadcasters are required to provide emergency alerts to their audiences, but many radio stations use IP-based signal distribution — something incompatible with old-style EAS boxes. What is needed is a simple way to interface the real-world over-the-air reception of EAS events, filter and process the messages, and — if necessary — incorporate the alerts into the modern audio-over-IP (AoIP) air chain.
Read MoreTopics: IP Studios, virtualization
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