Audio Engineering for the Stars

Tales of audio engineering for the stars with Tom Ray and Chris Tobin.

Vintage Audio: Realistic 12-1875A 8-Track/Stereo Cassette Adapter

In this occasional series, our resident technical archaeologist, Tom Vernon, explores some of the vintage gear found in the recesses of his storage space. This post is from the era when 8-Track ruled.

What's the best PC Ethernet card for use in Axia networks?

Andrew Brookes of Axia Partner Empirical Presentations in South Africa needs help with a network interface card issue, and Matt Rockwell is here to help.

Telos Alliance's Greg Shay on the AES67 IP Audio Standard

Our Chief Science Officer, Greg Shay, was able to take few moments recently and join Telos' Kirk Harnack on his weekly "This Week in Radio Tech" podcast. The topic: AES67, a framework to standardize low-latency IP-Audio and provide for interoperability that was recently published by the Audio Engineering Society.

Find Audio Network Problems before the Jocks Do

Here is a guest Tech Tip! Anthony Eden works for Hope 103.2, in the beautiful city of Sydney, Australia by day and writes about his experiences with technology on his personal website by night.

How do you know when something has gone wrong on your Livewire network? Do the jocks come screaming to you? You can get ahead of the curve by configuring your Telos Alliance gear to message you using a little logging and alerting protocol called "SysLog."

Dozens of Audio Streams,  Complete Control.

Music Choice, the multi-platform video and music network, delivers its music programming to millions of consumers nationwide through their televisions, online and mobile devices. Last month, they expanded their services when they launched their first Android app, currently streaming 46 channels, live! And guess what: all of the Music Choice channels are streamed with Omnia A/XE encoding and processing software.

Fairbanks' KQHE Radio proves you don't have to be big to sound big.

Mention Axia installs to most engineers and they'll usually conjure up images of multiple Element consoles, engines, nodes and processors all linked together with Livewire. But KQHE 92.7 in Fairbanks, Alaska is living proof that you don't need to be nearly that big to reap the benefits of IP audio with Livewire. The newest radio station in The Last Frontier is starting out with one Axia DESQ console, an Omnia ONE FM processor, Telos Z/IP ONE IP codec and an Hx1 phone system. That's it.

Get Great Audio over IP Remotes? Yes You Can!

As more and more broadcasters move to IP and public Internet connections for remote broadcasts, the question now is not "Can I do IP remotes?," but "How can I make IP remotes sound as good as ISDN?"

Axia Rides Tall in the Lone Star State

Kidd Kraddick's Yea Network brings new Axia studios online

If you've thumbed through the July 3rd issue of Radio World (US), you probably saw the gorgeous new Axia studios built by Rob Chickering, VP of Operations for Kidd Kraddick's Yea Network head-end.

Celebrating 45 Years of Mousing Around

We write in praise of the humble computer mouse – or, more accurately, the mind that invented it. Dr. Douglas Engelbart, working with ARPA at the Stanford Research Center in Palo Alto, California, was the man who first conceived of and publicly demonstrated digital - that is, hand-motion - control of computing devices, in December, 1968.