July 2001 I UK £6.00 US $12.00 STUDIO SOUN4D POSTPRODUCTION RECORDING BROADCAST www.studio-sound.com tallii rlun _J!l:.,ü REVIEWS iZ Technology Radar 24 Earthworks SR68, SR69, SRO Langevin Dual Vocal Combo Crown Macro -Tech 36DDVZ Magtrax Select' Series Lady Marmalade: Analogue tape and Pro Tools in chart drama Buzz Audio SOC 1.1 - AUR in Nashville: Tempting big names from Hollywood Listening to tomorrow: The home of the future Omniphonics SMI SSANRAs: Readers' equipment awards results Behringer Truth www.americanradiohistory.com "For us, the 9K was the only way to go" Dindae Sheena, Oasis Studios, Beijing YYYD Productions Chief Operating Great Studios Officer Dindae Sheena (left) and President Patrick Kwok (right) STUDIOS Of The World When YYYD Productions decided to create a world class recording facility in Beijing, the choice of console was obvious. "We did a market study on the standard that was currently on offer in other private facilities in China" says COO Dindae Sheena, "as we wanted to improve on them. We decided that the 9K was the only way to go and Oasis will be the first private facility in China to own one." Oasis Studio, YYYD Productions Co. Do o. 1 t, long San Huan Beilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100002-1 Studio One at Oasis Solid State Logic International Headquarters Begbroke, Oxford, OX5 1 RU, England Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Fax: +44 (0)1865 842118 E-mail: [email protected] f"1 l_9000 http://www.solid-state-logic.com New York Los Angeles Tokyo Paris Milan Toronto Singapore +1 (1)212 315 1111 +1 (1)323 463 4444 +81 (0)3 5474 1144 +33 (0)1 3460 4666 +39 039 2328 094 +1 (1)905 655 7792 +65 (0)438 2272 www.americanradiohistory.com Male JULY 2001 Volume 43 Issue 7 CONTENTS POSTPRODUCTION RECORDING BROADCAST 40 ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY 52 The home of the future 4 Editorial A tentative look into the technology shaping On moving targets and tomorrow's domestic environment moving house 62 Dr John 6 Soundings Exploring the standards used for digitising Breaking news on professional audio, component video for production purposes post and broadcast 64 Masterclass 14 SSAIRAs An intimate account of repairing and The result of Studio Sounds annual caring for Neumann's classic valve mics readers' equipment awards 67 Classifieds REVIEWS Small but perfectly formed: Studio Sounds classified ad section 22 iZ Radar 24 Refined for high -definition working, iZ's 71 Letters classic 24 -track hard-disk recorder Questions of credit and size trouble restates its case Studio Sounds readers 24 Magtrax Select 71 World Events New British multichannel monitoring The essential pro -audio events controllers offer something for everyone in diary update multichannel working 28 Behringer Truth 72 Stereotypes & Top 10 The definitive loudspeaker review 64 A new look at audio industry characters and their listening habits 30 Crown Macro -Tech 3600VZ The definitive amplifier review 74 The Wish List Roland chairman Ikutaro Kakehashi 32 Langevin Dual Vocal Combo invites to lounge of you the Cost-effective 'channel strip -style' stereo the future vocal processing from American specialists 34 Buzz Audio SOC 1.1 FEATURES New ideas from NZ set this compressor apart from the new wave of 'classic' design POSTPRODUCTION 36 Earthworks SR68, SR69, SRO 44 ADR goes to Nashville Intended for the stage, these American mics 44 Pulling big names away from Hollywood have much to offer the studio recordist and into Nashville. Audio Productions is redefining the City's audio profile 38 Omniphonics SMi Essential stereo monitor matrix switching RECORDING in a simple and effective package 16 Artisan Remote Recording Florida based and recently refitted, the COLUMNISTS prestigious Artisan mobile truck is on 60 Technology the move again Barry Fox looks on as new hi -tech media encounter embarrassing low-tech 40 David Pensado marketing problems Riding high on the success of the 'Lady Marmalade' single, David Pensado offers 60 Business an alternative recording philosophy Dan Daley argues that digital piracy is forcing a sea change on the BROADCAST entertainment industry 48 GWR 61 Delivery Billed as 'the biggest radio -only installation Kevin Hilton finds reality television since Broadcasting House', GWR's new HQ repeating lessons already leamed in is ready for the future film production Visit www.studio-sound.com and www.wnipa.com for the next issue of What's New in Pro Audio www.americanradiohistory.com EDITORIAI. A need to know July 2001 Vol 43, No 1. ISSN 0144 5944 IF WE ALL HAVE ONE secret weakness then it is UBM International, the desire to know what is to befall us. Aside from 7th Floor, Ludgate House, the obvious `business applications' of being able to 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UR, UK. see into the future, humans are obsessed by a need to Fax: +44 (0)20 7579 4011 know what is to come because they need to know that Net: www.studio-sound.com there is place for them, a role for them, and that there is in fact a future for them. Emails: (initialsurname©ubminternational.com) Our look at the home of the future in this issue Direct lines: +44 (0)20 7579 (extension). throws up some interesting insights in what (proba- bly) will or (probably) won't happen to the domestic EDITORIAL environment of a decade hence and how, by extrapo- Executive Editor: Zenon Schoepe. X: 4604 lation, it is likely to impact on the professional audio work sector. However, at least as many questions are Editor: Tim Goodyer. X: 4719 generated as answers. Production Editor: Dawn Boultwood. X: 4157 If a common thread emerges in looking at previous Secretary: Eileen Sullivan. X: 4169 past experience it is that things rarely change as dra- matically as we think they will and what emerges is inevitably always a modification and adjustment of domestic electronics giants to funnel the audience down Consultant Editors: what came before with the enduring presence of tech- an ordered and convenient narrow route, the tech- Broadcast: Florian Camerer, ORF, Vienna. nologies that have not disappeared despite everything nology that they bring in tow sheds splinters of options Chris Wolters, VTM, Brussels. pointing to this inevitability. The continuation of the and possibilities. Some of these may be short-lived and Postproduction: Paulo Biondo, record player and stylus, and the recommissioning of ultimately dead-end but someone will earn a crust in cutting machines into this millennium, in whatever all these escapades. The audio skills you have are trans- International Recording. Rome. lowly role, flies in the face of all the reliable indica- ferable and updatable in a way that much of the Lloyd Billing, The Tape Gallery, London. tors just as valve outboard and mics seemed doomed delivery technology in question is not. Looked at in Recording: Arthur Baker, producerremixer. future very a good decade earlier. this light the looks good. Trevor Fletcher, Criteria Studios, Miami. It would seem that despite the best efforts of the Zenon Schoepe, executive editor Consultants: Francis Rumsey; John Watkinson Columnists: Dan Daley; Barry Fox; Kevin Hilton Hi Angel Bench -testers: Keith Holland; Paul Miller Regular Contributors: Jim Betteridge; UST A NOTE to say that we're moving office again. sonnel), there were photographs of early APRS shows Having left the extravagant surroundings of the containing earlier versions of familiar faces along with the Richard Buskin; Simon Croft; Daily Express building for the more earthy setting of accounts of the Digital Information Exchange. And inside Ben Duncan; Dave Foister; Tim Frost; London Bridge less than five years ago, the powers that the cover of Studio Sound Index to Vol.1-30 (1959- Neil Hillman; Rob James; Caroline Moss; Philip have we We 1988) a misfiled press release reminded me of the be dictated that now return. moaned about Newell; Terry Nelson; Martin Polon; leaving and now we're moaning about returning. Some open-ended promise of the DISQ digital mixer core... George Shilling; Simon Trask things never change-but I've been reminded how many As with any move, there is a temptation to lighten the do through the relocation ritual of sorting out my desk. load of accumulated memorabilia, but I found myself News Editor: Phil Ward Beneath reams of press releases, among stolen salt wondering who, if not Studio Sound, would take care of cellars and green tea bags, these memories? Most ADVERTISEMENT SALES I - manufacturers can be trust- found some of the pro Group Ad Manager: Richard Lawn. X: 4432 audio curios that have ed to keep tabs on their Ad Manager: Gould. X: 4491 become part of the Studio own histories and examples Sue Sound editor's legacy. of the equipment that doc- Deputy Ad Manager: Sam Patel. X: 4440 Preventing my contribu- ument them, but few are Classified Sales: Wendy Clarke. X: 4723 tors' invoices from blowing likely be concerned with the Ad Production: Mark Saunders. X: 4739 away, for instance, was an exchanges of information Circulation Manager: Luise Mulholland. X: 4257 IC the size of a cigarette that helped drive their packet purporting to be an industry forward. And PA to the Publisher: Lianne Davey. X: 4211 A-D convertor. Between while many recording stu- Associate Publisher: Joe Hosken. X: 4179 files marked `Ballet Shoes' dios have archives of Publisher: Steve Haysom. X: 4459 a of bal- technical information and (containing pair Executive Director: Paul Gallo let shoes) and `Made -Up magazines, they themselves Words' (containing a selec- are periodically subject to tion of dictionaries in the economic upheavals SUBSCRIPTIONS various languages), I redis- that make the news. UK £52; Europe £69; Overseas: $130; Single £6 covered an exchange of So if I don't answer the letters on the merits of phone next time you call, For subscriptions contact: digital audio dating from it's probably because I'm 1983 that passed between in a dusty room as Acting Studio Sound, United Business Media International Richard Elen and Linn's Unofficial Archivist to the Ltd.