2016 Foreword For Calrec, 2016 was a year of The RP1 has already won a You will also find slogans big announcements and even Resolution indstury award for created by Calrec customers bigger products launches. Best Digital Mixer/Controller using the Calrec Periodic Table 2016. of Broadcast Consoles, a 2016 saw the inroduction of a campaign which won a Pro number of new technologies Finally, Calrec unveiled a suite Sound Marketing Innovation which keep Calrec connected to of AoIP networking interfaces, award in September. its customers. These products including an AES67/Ravenna provide routes into new interface, an AVB interface, a This year Calrec also produced markets, and provide solutions modular I/O Dante card and a a number of pocket-sized for broadcasters looking at SMPTE 2022-6 video interface. guidebooks to help ease integrating remote production broadcast customers into the into their workflow. This range of interfaces crowded and confusing era of reinforces Calrec’s stance in the IP, which are also referenced in First came Brio, the most future of audio transport these pages. powerful and compact digital protocols. Having a suite of broadcast audio console in its solutions to choose from means We’ve got big plans for 2017 class. Brio has a comprehensive broadcasters can be confident with more developments to broadcast feature set to support that they’ll have Calrec’s support come. Stay tuned for more a wider breadth of broadcasters, no matter which combination of details! and the same market-leading formats they use. levels of quality and customer Dave Letson support for which Calrec is All these products are covered Vice President of Sales renowned. in these pages, alongside customer user stories and Secondly, Calrec’s RP1 unit is a interviews with key customers way for broadcasters to about the state of the industry. integrate Remote Production into their production schedules. Remote production offers the ability to capture a broader range of live events, such as sports, news or regional music festivals, and mix them in a remote facility hundreds or thousands of miles away. 2 3 A keyboard made of bananas U.K.-based rental company unlike other digital desks, it has feedback from the Automixer Presteigne Broadcast Hire has lots of headroom, a huge benefit was especially helpful. added a Calrec Artemis audio in this environment. I can’t think console to its rental line-up. of another desk I would want to Presteigne worked with One- The console’s first customer, go into that room with.” Ten on the initial setup, and One-Ten Productions, rented Nock could easily change the studio and production facili- Known for its anarchic routing configuration to meet the ties for the revived “TFI Friday” energy, “TFI Friday” was show’s requirements. The mics programme. One-Ten used the broadcast from the Cochrane were allocated differently from Artemis to manage audio for the Theatre in Holborn, London, week to week, so the routing most recent run of the lively and where the set was rebuilt from was never static. In fact, even dynamic weekly show, which the original programme’s last after the desk was set up, the is anchored by live music and broadcast in 2000. Most of the mics and routing changed by guest interviews. presentation was set in the bar the minute — often live on air. area, a small, crowded room One minute a radio mic might “I’ve mixed many live shows with a low ceiling and loud air be on someone’s lapel, and the before, such as ‘The Voice’ and conditioning. The sound can go next it could be on the end of a the BBC’s 2014 Brazil World from a whisper to a cheering trumpet. Cup coverage, but ‘TFI Friday’ is crowd, which required a great unlike any other show I’ve done deal of headroom to manage, Mixing the sound for “TFI to date,” said Howard Nock, and the Artemis’ Automixer was Friday” was a partnership sound supervisor on the show. a critical tool in ensuring a tight, between Nock and Kevin Duff, “It is very challenging and clean mix. who have worked well together chaotic, and you have to be on other shows. Nock dealt with ready to change direction at a “The Automixer feature on the the bar area, which included moment’s notice using the kit at Artemis console was a lifesaver mixing everything from presenter technology. “The Artemis Presteigne, we’re excited to be your disposal. The dimensions on this show, particularly given and guest mics, EVS play-ins, provides a huge amount of a part of that iconic programme,” of the bar area aren’t ideal, and the acoustics of the room and and Skype™calls, to a mariachi resources to account for rapid said Jim Green, international “The Automixer feature with a lot of omni lav mics faded how loud the air-con was,” Nock band and a keyboard made from production changes, but in a sales manager for Calrec. “Our up next to a rowdy crowd, it can added. “It played a big part in bananas. Duff mixed the relatively compact size.” partnership with O’Carroll and on the Artemis console make balancing the sound in reducing that noise to a more downstairs stage area, which Now that the current run of “TFI the Presteigne team ensures this area a bit tricky to control at acceptable level, and I also used featured several live Friday” has ended, Presteigne that rental customers in the U.K. was a lifesaver on times. it to give the PA mixer in the bar performances per show by some will make the Artemis available will have access not only to this show.” a premixed, cleaned-up feed of of the biggest names in music. for other customers to rent. Calrec technology, but to a vast “The Calrec Artemis was the 14 guest mics.” store of expertise for audio Howard Nock specified from the outset, as it is Nock also appreciated the visual “Howard regularly works with “David O’Carroll from planning and product support.” the console I am very layout of the control surface Calrec audio desks and is very Presteigne is not only a trusted comfortable with, particularly for and the fact that the controls comfortable with them, so it expert in broadcast technology, this kind of dynamic programme. are close together on the fader made sense to ensure he was but his first job in broadcast was The Artemis has a nice pitch. The metering was easy to on solid ground,” said David on ‘TFI Friday’ when it first aired saturated, analogue sound, and set up and customize, and the O’Carroll, Presteigne’s head of in 1996. Through 4 5 Telefonica Broadcast Services raise the bar with Calrec Spain’s Telefonica Broadcast Summa’s feature list — such as Services has upgraded its HD 128 channels, four mains, 32 OB truck with a Calrec Summa tracks, an oscillator, the number console, making it one of the and variety of inputs and only companies in the Spanish outputs, and the Hydra2 OB market to offer a broadcast- networking infrastructure — specific audio console. boosts the quality of Telefonica’s HD OB truck and reduces setup “We produce events for almost time between productions. all major broadcasters in Spain, as well as foreign companies. Telefonica primarily covers Today it’s a soccer game. sports and Champions League Tomorrow it will be basketball. football in Spain. Calrec’s “The Summa ensures After that we might broadcast Soccer Assist® iPad® app, an we can do it in a way an opera. We have to be able assistive mixing tool that to manage any setup our clients simplifies the job of tracking that only a require and guarantee their big on-pitch audio during a football productions will go to air with game, is especially useful. The broadcast-grade desk no problems,” said Luis Garcia operator uses the app to help can. We don’t even Colombo, Telefonica OB audio calculate the optimal mic/fader engineer. configuration at any given have to think about moment, which makes it “The Summa ensures we can do possible to capture important whether we’ll be able it in a way that only a on-pitch events while minimizing to handle the setup; we broadcast-grade desk can. We the amount of crowd and venue don’t even have to think about noise. simply know that whether we’ll be able to handle Jose Maria Hernandez, Telefonica OB audio engineer. the setup; we simply know that “There are not many we can.” we can. It’s easy to see that it’s broadcast-specific desks in the Luis Garcia Colombo not just an audio console, but a Spanish OB market, so installing TV audio console, and that gives a Summa is a big step forward,” us an edge in the market.” said Jim Green, Calrec’s international sales manager. The Summa’s technology and “Telefonica is making a bold functionality make it possible for statement to the broadcast Telefonica to handle larger TV marketplace about its productions than ever before commitment to improving quality and put the company in a better and output.” competitive position. 6 7 MLB Network knocks it out of the park In order to handle its ever- In October 2015, MLB Network “The new processing window, increasing live coverage of became responsible for all with all its features, was a Major League Baseball and the production for NHL Network, welcome development,” Curry National Hockey League, MLB including live studio shows, said. “So were additional Network recently needed to add taped content, intermission options like being able to put a new studio and control room programming, and updates.