Smartphones and Streaming: Are You Ready?
Some months ago, as you can see in the archives, I wrote a piece about the importance of making sure that your internet stream is properly processed. At the time, I mentioned that listening to internet streams for music and news is no longer a niche service embraced only by tech nerds and music freaks.
Read MoreTelos VX: The Talkshow System Gets an Upgrade
Broadcasting live from a super-secret location near you...
The engineers in our development labs are chomping at the bit to begin full-scale shipment of the award-winning new Telos VX broadcast VoIP Talkshow system - they're hammering out code as fast as they can hammer down Mountain Dew* and Fritos.
Read MoreMaking Adobe Audition 3.0 Play Nice with Axia's IP-Audio Driver
Trevor Stuart, engineer for Astral Radio's Virgin 104.9, Team 1260 and 100.3 The Bear in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, writes: "We recently upgraded from Adobe Audition 1.5 to Audition 3.0. Ever since we are randomly getting a 'clicking sound' when recording using the Axia IP-Audio Driver for Windows. Nothing else gets this, but nothing else on the systems is using ASIO. We are using Driver version 2.5.2.8. Anything you can do to help would be appreciated."
Dollars, Sense, and The Dave Ramsey Show
Axia Interview: Blake Thompson, "The Dave Ramsey Show"
With its emphasis on personal finance and getting out of debt, Dave Ramsey, host of the nationally-syndicated talk radio program The Dave Ramsey Show is heard on nearly 300 radio stations throughout the United States, including XM and Sirius satellite radio. Knowing how important it is to spend and invest wisely, The Dave Ramsey Show recently upgraded its facilities to include a new Axia Livewire Audio Network and Element control surface. We caught up with Blake Thompson, the show’s producer, to get his perspective on the new gear.
Read MoreGoing FM Talk? Omnia has you covered
With talk programming coming to the FM band in many places - it's more essential than ever that your processing is dialed-in. At Omnia, we known that tuning for voice-only radio can be a time-consuming endeavor. That's why our processing team has been hard at work creating new FM Talk presets for the amazing Omnia.11 audio processor. They've come up with presets for News, Talk and Sports programming that give voices the richness, smoothness and authority your PD wants. In short, it's the clear, clean, loud-as-heck Omnia sound - for talk!
Read MoreTopics: broadcast audio processor
Breaking BRI channels out of T-1 lines
Ron Russ of SBS' Los Angeles cluster, writes: "Could someone please explain to me how multiple ISDN BRI's can be handled by one (or more) T-1's? Right now, I have six ISDN lines and I'm looking at ways of reducing that cost."
Read MoreEAS and Axia
Daniel Somes, CE at Journal Broadcast Group in Tucson, writes "What's the best way to integrate TFT EAS receivers into Axia? Do I simply connect the EAS to an audio node for insertion to the Axia system?"
Read MoreIf It's Too Loud, You're Too Old
"Being loud is not the problem. It's how you get loud that's the issue."
There have been lots of proclamations lately about how "the loudness wars are over." Respectfully, we think that's a big crock. Sure, everyone says that with the advent of HD Radio, loudness isn't an issue anymore - but just scan up and down the dial in any radio market worth its salt and your ears will tell you instantly how programmers (and engineers) really feel. No wonder our new Omnia.11 is in such demand.
Read MoreTen Minutes to VoIP!
Easy Telos VX setup with Steve and Maris
If you're like us, the idea of using a VoIP-based studio phone system is as exciting as unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning. The ability to (finally) connect your studio phones to your business PBX, taking high-def voice calls from SIP clients, using low-cost IP trunks - if this makes your eyes light up... well, you've probably already put in a PO for a Telos VX system. Read MorePassword Reset for Omnia ONE
Folks who've forgotten the passwords to their Omnia ONE processors have been asking how to unlock their units and reset that pass to the factory default. Here's the procedure, but note that the Omnia ONE must be running software version 1.1 (25) or later for this procedure to work. (You can find out what version you're running in the Administrative menu / About screen.)
1) Rremove power from the unit.
2) Remove the top cover and locate jumper JP5.
3) Move the jumper from pins 1-2 (toward the rear of the unit) to pins 2-3 (toward the front ).
4) Power up the unit. Wait until it boots all the way up and the main menu is displayed.
5) Verify that the password has been reset to the factory default. ("omnia")
6) Unplug (remove power from) the unit.
7) Move jumper JP5 back to pins 1-2 (toward the rear of the unit).
8) Re-install the top cover of the unit.
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Topics: broadcast audio processor