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: "Why Can't I Get My Omnia.3 Repaired?"
A: This is a pretty common question from customers that want to keep their favorite 15- to 25-year-old Omnia on the air and sounding great.
Read MoreTopics: broadcast audio processor
Making time is easy with ATS' Frame Rate Toolbox
They say that time is precious, and this was particularly true for one of our radio customers, a multinational religious broadcaster which receives and processes hundreds of hours of content every day at their US headquarters from independent providers across the globe. With so much content coming from so many different sources, ensuring consistency and quality was always going to be a challenge.
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Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus
A look inside the most flexible audio-handling ecosystem yet for TV production
In our ongoing exploration of cutting-edge audio technology, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Friedemann Kootz of Jünger Audio to delve into the innovative flexAI platform.
Read MoreTopics: Audio Processing, Automation, Audio Routing, Junger, AIXpressor, 2024, flexAI
Netherlands' Triple Audio Puts Axia To Work at Radio4All
Recently we heard something quite amazing from our partners in the Netherlands, Triple Audio: they'd built a client new broadcast studios, ready for air, in just two weeks' time! How in the world is this possible? They've given us permission to share their story - read on! (The following is edited; to read the original, click here.)
Read MoreTopics: AoIP studios, Axia Quasar
ATS Channel Assignment Detection Speeds Workflows
When you have content coming in from many different vendors and sources it can often feel a bit like the wild west, with no certainty over what audio channels are on any given file and in what order. Bringing order to this chaos and identifying the audio layout on each file can be both time-consuming and expensive - two things that don’t make great business sense!
This is the exact challenge that one of our Canadian customers faced.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus
AoIP isn't just for big markets
Kentucky's WEKT is community radio at its best
In a broadcast world dominated by mega-corporations, community radio's relevance is sometimes questioned. Just don’t question it with Beth Mann around. Mann, the President and CEO of Kentucky-based Edge Media Group, has proven that commitment to local programming, community involvement, and a view to the future are keys to a loyal listener base.
Read MoreTopics: independent radio, AoIP studios, axia iqx, 2024
Virtualization and containers simplified.
Talk to broadcasters these days and you'll find that virtually everyone (get it?) agrees that virtualization is "what's next." What they might not agree on is how to go about making it happen. Being helpful sorts, we've just announced a new platform that could be the simplest way yet to deploy virtual solutions.
Read MoreTopics: virtual radio, virtual radio software, virtualization, Infinity VIP, Omnia Forza, Axia Altus, Telos VXS, AP-3000
Dialog Intelligibility Gets A Big Boost With New Recommendation
“Hey, Turn That Down!”
You’ve experienced the problem: you set your TV volume at a level that’s comfortable for listening to the characters talk, only to grab the remote and frantically hit the “down” button when the action starts. Or, vice-versa: a volume level that's comfortable during loud scenes is too low for scenes with conversational dialog. Well, the latest update to the European Broadcasting Union’s R 128 recommendation, issued on November 10, 2023, takes us one step closer to solving the problem.
Topics: TV Loudness Management, Audio Loudness, Automation, Television Audio, Minnetonka Audio, Audio Tools Server