Predictive Audio Processor 

You might think we would be saving our new product announcements for NAB. However, leaking information on the Predictive Audio Processor on April 1 seems to be the right decision.

All that exists right now is the manual, a document so exciting, we are hoping you may not notice that the product will never be released.

Download your copy here.

As with all of the great 25-Seven manuals, the PAP manual is written by Clio & Emmy Award winning sound designer Jay Rose.

Telos Alliance has led the audio industry’s innovation in Broadcast Audio, Digital Mixing & Mastering, Audio Processors & Compression, Broadcast Mixing Consoles, Audio Interfaces, AoIP & VoIP for over three decades. The Telos Alliance family of products include Telos® Systems, Omnia® Audio, Axia® Audio, Linear Acoustic®, 25-Seven® Systems, Minnetonka™ Audio and Jünger Audio. Covering all ranges of Audio Applications for Radio & Television from Telos Infinity IP Intercom Systems, Jünger Audio AIXpressor Audio Processor, Omnia 11 Radio Processors, Axia Networked Quasar Broadcast Mixing Consoles and Linear Acoustic AMS Audio Quality Loudness Monitoring and 25-Seven TVC-15 Watermark Analyzer & Monitor. Telos Alliance offers audio solutions for any and every Radio, Television, Live Events, Podcast & Live Streaming Studio With Telos Alliance “Broadcast Without Limits.”

Sixteen Streams and What do You Get?

Doug Rowe is an engineer at Minnesota Public Radio. His title is one that we’ll see more often: Media Production Systems Manager. As radio stations, groups, and networks depend on digital media distribution, more engineers like Doug are needed; not only to keep everything working, but to develop the infrastructure for the workflows needed by talent and content creators.

What You Need to Know About Audio Time Management for Radio

The first audio delays were tube based.

But did you know that those tubes were garden hoses with a speaker at one end and a microphone at the other? The hose’s length was calculated at one foot per 1ms of desired delay. As you can imagine, it did not sound good at all.

Today, radio broadcasters can take advantage of sophisticated digital technologies for audio delay, as well as for shrinking and stretching program material.

In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the historical highlights and where persistence and innovation have gotten us today.

Vintage Audio: Studer A710 Cassette Deck

When precision, Swiss engineering is applied to a cassette recorder, the results are spectacular. Some of the best examples of this were the professional cassette recorders manufactured by Studer Revox.

Lurking in the recesses of the attic recently we found not one, but two Studer A710 MKIIs. We'll examine this machine, and tear down the transport to see what made it so exceptional.

NPR Labs' Rich Rarey

Rich Rarey’s name is synonymous with audio engineering at NPR, and has been for over 30 years. Now, Rich is the Director of NPR Labs, the USA’s only not-for-profit broadcast technology research and development center.

Rich joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack with broadcast engineering tales from the past, and fascinating looks at an award-winning NPR Labs project in progress now.

Axia enters Pop Culture

A console on your smartphone?

Well, not exactly. But pretty close!  Addison Burnside, student Assistant Engineer at the East Valley Institute of Technology's KVIT found that Element consoles have crossed over into pop culture - or at least to stock photo houses.

Masterful Audio

Omnia's Corny Gould puts it down in print

When you work with a bunch of really smart guys, you tend to forget sometimes just how respected they are.And then, you get a little reminder -- like this one.

Transition from ISDN to IP Audio Continues

Following our blog post about the gradual phasing out of ISDN in favor of IP Audio transmission for remote broadcasts, we received a variety of comments and questions regarding the pros and cons of this transition. We'd like to answer those questions – not just because we create IP Audio technologies, but so you can better determine if and when IP Audio might be right for you.

With that in mind, our Cam Eicher answers some great questions posed following last week’s blog post.

Catalog Collection Keeps Track of "The Shack" Radio Shack Catalog

Fans of Radio Shack were hit hard with the recent news that the electronics retailer plans to close roughly 20% of its stores. The announcement indicated the chain will close over 1,000 of its lower-performing stores, primarily in the U.S.

While electronics consumers remain hopeful for the future of Radio Shack, no matter what the future holds, they can rest assured that the glory days of Radio Shack’s past and an archive of Radio Shack catalogs will be immortalized by Mike D’Alessio on radioshackcatalogs.com.

Mute it, Kirk: Radio Transmitter Muting

Kirk has a transmitter problem related to operation during antenna icing conditions. Between Chris Tobin’s help and ideas from the TWiRT chat room, I think we’ve got a solution! Plus, Chris Tobin explains how transmitter muting and safety lockouts are USED in multi-transmitter master antenna sites.