Five Things You Should Know about IP Audio

Recently, a friend asked me to give him five advantages that IP-Audio (or AoIP, if you prefer) has over other, older technologies. Just five?! I had to do some head scratching and significant paring-down, but was eventually able to come up with a manageable list. So here they are, in no particular order:

Controlling an Axia Element console remotely with SoftSurface

A client wrote us with this question: "I have a remote coming up and I would like to use SoftSurface in the field to control my Element studio console. Is this possible? If so, what port forwarding is needed at the studio?"

"Hey, good lookin'... Radio Console!"

Axia shows up in photos from all over

We've been seeing Axia in photos everywhere lately - from smartphone games (see "Axia Enters Pop Culture") to celebrity photo tweets. Recently, we received the photo above from Bob Page, Radio Broadcast Specialist at Universal Studios Orlando. You'll likely recognize actor and TV host Mario Lopez, and his lovely wife Courtney M. Lopez (Miss USA 2010), who tweeted the pic posing in front of that gorgeous console in the radio studios at Universal Studios, where they were shooting episodes of Extra!.

"Why does my audio need four speakers when I only have two ears?"

All of us at the Telos Alliance share with our customers a fatal attraction to radio, as well as a passion for making great audio. But many of us have other hobbies and interests that might surprise you. From time to time, we'll profile members of the Telos Alliance and what they do when they're not inventing the next generation of broadcast audio gear.

Using Telos Hx1 Hybrids with a Direct Interface Module

Michael Uhl asks us, "Will a new Telos Hx1 hybrid work with a legacy Telos DIM (Direct Interface Module)?"

Axia Goes to School

Students at KVIT-FM get new networked studios

When Steve Grosz visited the NAB show last April, he was shopping for an IP audio console to replace the aging analog board at his station. Little did he know that he would end up buying three consoles and a boatload of other radio gear, most of it from the Telos Alliance. Grosz is the general manager of KVIT, an educational FM station run by the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) in Mesa, Arizona.

Audio Processing: Your Ears vs. Specs and Features

I once heard a story regarding a certain ski team during one of the Olympic Games. Not sure if it is true or not, but it went something like this: This team was determined to be the first ski team from their country to bring home some medals. They studied every book about skiing. They read up on the proper techniques, equipment, stance, timing - everything.  Later they practiced on simulators. On the flight to the Olympic Games they were already counting their medals. Only one problem: They never actually skied on an Olympic course before! They hardly skied at all on any course.

RIP John Karlin, Father of Modern Telephone Dialing

At Telos, phones are, quite naturally, rather dear to our hearts. Just days ago came the news that John Karlin, a veteran of Bell Labs and the man directly responsible for All-Digit Dialing and, indirectly, DTMF and the modern telephone keypad, passed away on January 28 at the age of 94. Without Karlin, much of the UI common to modern communications would likely come in a much different form.

Zap! Boom! Pow! The Rise and Fall of the Amusement Arcade

Many of us grew up spending our Friday nights pumping dimes and quarters into pinball machines or Space Invaders games down at the local arcade. These arcades served as sanctums, meeting places, king's courts and on-the-job-training for a lot of budding teen electrical engineers (and a lot of others, too). Now, these places are pretty much gone, sanitized out of existence or supplanted by the rise of the console game and the embrace of the living room couch. Ah, but there was a time...

Axia Socks It to 'Em

Don't try this at home, folks

As part of our relentless monitoring of the Interwebs, the Telos Alliance Marketing gnomes came across this post on Pubtech, the Public Radio Technical listserve, from Doug Hoag of KAXE in Grand Rapids, Minnesota: