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BBC Radio Resources, London - UK BBC Radio Resources is using the Optimizer as a mobile device to see the benefits of room correction in music studios, such as Maida Vale and Radio Theatre, as well as in OB trucks. Various consoles are used (mainly SSL and Studer), with Mitchell Todd Excel 202As monitors for nearfield and surround work. The benefits of the Optimizer include: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich & Nuremberg - Germany The Bavarian Broadcasting house has equipped the event hall in the Foyer Hochhaus in Munich with an Optimizer. Thanks to the Optimizer, it was possible to use the existing sound system, originally designed for stereo, for different surround sound configurations. The Optimizer achieves a perfect matching of the different Loudspeakers into one homogenous sound field: Klein and Hummel ProX6 for front Left & Right, Martin Audio WTUB for Center and Surrounds, and two Klein & Hummel ProX Subwoofers using the Optimizer`s stereo bass-management. By the "push of a button" from the media control system, the Optimizer switches the alignment of the hall for the screening of Cinema films (with or without X-Curve) or for ITU-compliant surround productions. The Bayerischer Rundfunk is also using the Trinnov in a 5.1 control room in Nuremberg.
France3 (French public television), Paris - France With a staff of over 6000 people and 97 offices around the country, France3 is the main regional and local TV in France. France3 has chosen the Optimizer for its broadcast control rooms that have been upgraded for 5.1 productions: Philippe Vaidie, chief engineer of Régie D347, describes the benefits of using the Optimizer in his control room: "Our monitoring has improved, and the broadcast sound has also improved. This was confirmed to us by the journalists and by those who check the live broadcast. It's obvious on the timbre and on the balance: I find them back exactly as I mixed them. It's transparent." (Sonovision, May 2008) Installation and fine-tuning by TaylorMadeSystem - Jacques Fuchs and Patrick Thévenot. ORF (Austrian public broadcaster), Vienna - Austria The ORF has chosen the Optimizer for its most critical multichannel broadcasting control rooms: - The SK3 (Synchronkomplex), located in the headquarters of the ORF-TV in central Vienna, is a large control room designed for voice recording, postproduction and synchronization of audio for video in 5.1. It was built in 2006 and designed by Tonarchitektur. It is equipped with a Lawo mc2 mixer and five Studer A5 monitors with two Mackie HRS 150 as subwoofers. More info: Resolution Magazine, April 2006. Installation and fine-tuning by our partner and distributor for Austria: Tonarchitektur - Peter Willensdorfer. Radio France (French public radio), Paris - France Radio France is the french public radio. It operates seven major national stations and has a staff of 4000 people. After Studio 104, the control rooms of Studio 105 and Studio 106 is the next ones at Radio France that have been upgraded for 5.1 productions. They are equipped with an SSL C100 digital desk, and ATC SCM150 and ATC SCM50 monitors, some of the finest loudspeakers currently available. But how do you manage to get accurate 5.1 monitoring from a control room originally designed for stereo? When a total refurbishment is not an option, the Optimizer can be of great help. The sound engineers at Radio France found that the Optimizer could make these control rooms sound not too different from their benchmark 5.1 control room, the Studio 104. When you have the responsibility of broadcasting live in 5.1, every weekday, one of the most popular radio shows, "Le fou du Roi", one cannot allow the room to make a fool of oneself! CBC - Radio-Canada (Canadian public broadcaster), Montréal - Canada Sociéte Radio Canada uses the Trinnov in two studios: Studio 14 - a new 5.1 control room equipped with Genelec monitors and a Digidesign Icon controller - and Studio 31 - a mastering room equipped with B&W loudspeakers and a Pyramix system.
Deutsche Welle (Germany's international broadcaster), Berlin - Germany
NRK (Norwegian public broadcaster), Oslo - Norway The engineers of the NRK are using the Optimizer in a variety of projects, from film mixing in large control rooms such as LK2, equipped with Genelec 8040 and Adam S3a monitors, to outside broadcasting in mobile units equipped with Genelec 1030/1031 and Adam S4a monitors.
RFI (Radio France Internationale), Paris - France The control room 136, located at the Maison de la Radio, uses the Optimizer on a stereo setup of Genelec 1031 monitors. Two different presets allow for accurate monitoring from two different listening positions, one at the front of the control room, and one in the back.
RTSI (Swiss Italian-speaking public broadcaster), Lugano - Switzerland RTBF (French-speaking Public Broadcaster of Belgium), Brussels - Belgium The mastering studio for the Archives of the Litterature Museum is located in the headquarters of the RTBF. It is a small asymmetrical room featuring a pair of PMC AML1 monitors. Due to the asymmetry of the room, a strong cancellation occurs in the mid range. Thanks to its unique phase compensation capabilities, the Optimizer manages to solve this problem seamlessly. The result is truly astonishing. SWR (Public Broadcaster of Southwest Germany), Mainz & Kaiserslautern - Germany The Mehrzweck Studio (Multipurpose Studio) at SWR Mainz now features an Optimizer for accurate stereo and surround monitoring. The main goal was to compensate for room resonances from the side-walls, as well as to adjust for asymmetrical loudspeaker positions due to architectural constraints. This control room is equipped with a Lawo desk and Klein & Hummel O400 monitors. SWR Kaiserslautern is also using the Trinnovs in two 5.1 control rooms. WDR (Public Broadcaster of West Germany), Cologne - Germany WDR is using the Optimizer in a Stereo control room for sound design. One Optimizer is build in a mobile Rack for the use in several TV-Sound Control Rooms. Currently 3 OB Vans are beeing equipped with an Optimizer. |
