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Wheatstone: Audio Consoles, Processing, Networking
If it's audio broadcast, it's happening at Wheatstone. We manufacture broadcast audio products, from digital consoles, control surfaces and Audioarts mixers to fully integrated audio over IP (AoIP) and TDM routing systems as well as spectral audio processing for on air and over the internet, plus a wide variety of studio and broadcast wares for radio, television and commercial installations.
Installed in more broadcast facilities than any other console brand, Wheatstone and Audioarts provide complete program access and control for your broadcast facility. Mission Critical. Failsafe. Bulletproof – just some of the words people use to describe our studio products. Friendly. Knowledgeable. Exceptionally cool – just some of the words used to describe our people.
Outta Control!
We’ve just started to ship our new Screen Builder app, and already the many uses for this software app that lets you create custom screens for the WheatNet-IP audio network are rolling in.
Our new Screen Builder app has faders, meters, labels, buttons, clocks, timers and other widgets that you can arrange on a PC screen and program to create your own custom control interface for level adjusting, monitoring and more.
Chris Penny from Agile Broadcast in Australia told us about this interesting application for Screen Builder. (Shown in the photo at left: click to zoom in.)
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"The screen I built for this studio is for a producer. It allows IFB in to the right channel of a host/guest headphone by simply pressing on their chair. The ‘dot’ in front of the chairs (on the desk) lights up to show the mic is switched ON. Buttons to the right give the producer full monitoring of all outside broadcast lines in the facility, and he can talk to any remote talent by pressing the IFB button for the desired line. Group talkback to all guests is available by pressing ‘talkback all guests;’ or to every headphone by pressing the ‘Roosevelt’ button (Roosevelt is the name of the studio). A source selector on the left side of the screen allows the producer to monitor a variety of program sources, and a PC button mixes in the producer’s Internet computer to the monitor mix. Additional controls include delay DUMP (which illuminates when delay is full) and Aircom, which sends the producer’s talkback microphone to the On Air mix via an AirAura processor (to colour the sound so it mimics an intercom/ and control dynamics)."
Other uses for Screen Builder include monitoring transmitter levels and logic at various sites, locating and controling all hardware in the audio network, and monitoring studios in different locations. Here's a quick video from Wheatstone's VP/Technology, Andy Calvanese, describing Screen Builder.
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On the Road in Belgium
During his travels through Europe in mid October 2014, Jay Tyler snapped a few shots of AraBel Radio in Brussels, Belgium. He was able to capture the clean lines of the station’s studios – along with a few E-1 control surfaces. AraBel uses WheatNet-IP audio networking and the WinMedia playout system to broadcast general-interest programming in French and Arabic via FM and the Internet. Our compliments to integrator Periactes for this visually open radio facility, which is clearly helping AraBel announcers interact more closely with guests and the listening public.
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3 Things You Need to Know About Network Switches
You’re about to embark on a social experiment.
You’ve selected the perfect control surfaces and the audio network is almost laid out for your new studios. Everyone and everything speaks broadcast and, so far, you haven’t had to take up IT as a second language. But now you’re about to drop a couple of network switches into the middle of it all and you’re worried that things could erupt into a civil war between this newer IT world and the radio cavalry.