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AUDIO FOR POST, BROADCAST, RECORDING AND MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION V5.1 JANUARY/FEBRUARYJANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006 Hugh Padgham — chart topping and ‘that’ drum sound Ken Scott — a true production and engineering great SuperMAC and HyperMAC explained How copyprotected CDs have screwed up PCs Meet your maker: Joe Bull — SADiE Ten pro audio trivia talking points REVIEWS: Schoeps CMIT 5U • Waves Tune • Fostex DV824 • Mutec iClock • Joemeek OneQ • BonsaiDrive • Pro Tools HD7 • SSL X-Rack Dynamics ��������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������� ����������� ���������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������� ��������������������������������������� ��������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������ ��������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������ �������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������� January/February 2006 V5.1 ISSN 1477-4216 THE PRO END-USER AUDIO PRODUCTION MAGAZINE News & Analysis 4 Leader 16 Products New introductions and announcements. 4 News Sales, contracts, appointments, biz bites 66 Headroom and the bigger picture More marketing hype and more audio lookilikies. Craft 14 Bohus Studio 50 Sweet Spot Gothenburg studio with history has plans, Taking low frequency modulation transfer professionalism and sound business sense. functions (MTFs) across the room to the ears of the listener. 38 Hugh Padgham Still chart topping, he talks excitement, 52 In the picture record companies and ‘that’ drum sound. Digital cinema — selling dreams? 42 Ken Scott 58 Steinberg Top Tips He worked at Abbey Road and Trident in Controlling surround in Nuendo 3.2 with the golden age and has engineered and MixerDelay produced some of our greatest and most enduring talent. 59 Ten Pro audio trivia talking points 46 Broadcast Rome’s Videotime has installed a Vista 8 in 60 Katz’s column its news studio to test its digitisation plans. Becky and Fred are back with their mix and this time it’s without bus 48 Meet your maker compression. Joe Bull — SADiE’s technology man on education and maintaining standards. Business 54 Copyprotected CDs 64 Your business There’s a dark side to the disc Get a new job — Daley investigates and it can put all sorts of stuff on career alternatives for the technically your computer. gifted with time on their hands. Technology 56 SuperMAC and HyperMAC 62 Slaying Dragons We explain the promise of low-latency, Watkinson bemoans the state of design highly-reliable audio interconnection on and identifi es a lack of imagination and Cat-5 cable. too many bean counters. Reviews 22 Fostex DV824 32 Digidesign Pro Tools HD7 24 Waves Tune and DeBreath 34 Mutec iClock 26 Rosendahl BonsaiDrive 35 Røde NT6 28 Schoeps CMIT 5U 36 SSL X-Rack Dynamics 30 Grace Design M906 37 Joemeek OneQ EDITORIAL ADVERTISEMENT SALES PRODUCTION AND LAYOUT Editorial Director: Zenon Schoepe European Sales Dean Cook Tel: +44 1444 410675 Clare Sturzaker Dean Cook Productions Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 1342 717459 Tel: +44 1273 236681 Editorial offi ce: PO Box 531, Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Haywards Heath RH16 4WD, UK US Sales Contributors: Rob James, George Shilling, Jeff Turner Keith Spencer-Allen, Terry Nelson, Jon Thornton, Tel: +1 415 455 8301 Neil Hillman, Nigel Jopson, Andy Day, Email: [email protected] Kevin Hilton, Dan Daley, John Watkinson news APRS 2006 sub and Appointments Maybe it’s the time of year Leader but you don’t have to look member changes C A D A C H A S far to see people struggling with the concept To make the process of becoming a appointed Bob Thomas of technology. Just recently I’ve listened to two member of the APRS trade association even as MD. Formerly MD of ladies of pensionable age discussing the relative simpler, the organisation has transformed TEAC (UK), Bob takes merits of ‘inevitably going digital’ with their its membership categories to attract smaller up the post as Clive TVs and witnessed an electrical goods salesman audio businesses. It has launched a fourth Green formally retires compare the difference in picture quality between membership category and developed a after more than 37 years at the helm. various large TV sets to car tyre quality — ‘My four-tier subscription matrix. The new ‘The prospect of leading one of the tyres cost £200 and last me two years but my categories, named A, B, C and D, were original great independent British desk friend’s cost three times that and he has to introduced in 2005 to the studio sector manufacturers was something I couldn’t change them every six months — so you don’t and will be extended to all other sectors refuse,’ he said. ‘The prospects for the always get what you pay for…’ Then there is the from 2006. future are excellent, and there is great enduring assault by a few PR companies who The APRS Board is now investigating potential for expansion across the new continue to deliver pictures in inappropriate fi le sizes — either so big that they ways to differentiate member categories digital line-up, as well as the traditional could be printed across the side of one of those ridiculous people carriers or fi les separately from ‘services provided’ so analogue products.’ that are of completely inadequate quality to begin with that are bumped up to that all members share a wider range of more impressive sizes by some form of digital picture witchcraft. services. There has also been a modest THE EUPHONIX The problem is that the people simply don’t understand the technology and increase to subscription rate (the first board of directors has most of the people who sell it to them don’t understand it either. Most tragically since 1999) and the association intends appointment Martin of all it’s becoming clear that those who design and build the stuff don’t fully to increase rates by 20% over the next two Kloiber chief executive understand what the consumer wants and don’t seem to appreciate the level of years to continue to maintain and develop offi cer of the Company. misinformation. It’s a disastrous scenario for the long-term because if ignorance member services. Kloiber has been with is so rife now — while there is still some strong simple residual legacy technology More details at www.aprs.co.uk Euphonix since 2000, most recently as to compare against — what hope is there when all these references are fi nally chief technology offi cer and takes over removed? CBS adds two the position from Jeff I want to believe that at the highest level within manufacturing organisations Chew. — at the very conception of a new technology product type — there the desire Constellation XTs Mike Franklin has to improve things for the user must be at the very core of any new idea. What CBS Television City has bought two been promoted to happens is this ‘purity of idea’ takes a knock as soon as it hits the rest of the Fairlight Dream Constellation XTs for its VP of Broadcast Sales organisation because it encounters levels of ignorance and confusion within Los Angeles facility where it produces at Euphonix for the the companies themselves. Is it really any wonder that by the time it hits the promos for the entire CBS TV network. Americas. consumer the vital marketing message is often so wide of the mark? The two Constellations will be networked In many ways I believe that our industry’s professional users are in a perfect with Fairlight MediaLink and run alongside STEFAN GUBI has position to understand why anyone would want to buy this TV, that entertainment Fairlight Pyxis picture systems. been appointed system, that format player or that mobile device, but unfortunately we are not ‘CBS has been a Fairlight systems user president at AKG. typical of the average consumer who, if he bought the cheaper TV set after that for many years,’ said Stuart DeMarais, His work experience car tyre analogy, needs to grasp more technological information than he is able Fairlight sales and marketing director, ‘so includes positions on or prepared to absorb. they are used to fast, reliable editors. In the executive committee I have an old friend who was among the very fi rst to get serious digital into addition to these core requirements, the of Austrian IT fi rm Kapsch Business Com his facility and I still smile when I remember how he felt about the whole