As well as live, installed and corporate sound, Yamaha pro audio equipment is just as at home in the broadcast environment. Three of Greece’s major television facilities are enjoying the benefits of this flexibility, Yamaha products playing key roles in their output.
Part of the Idelson-Gnocchi publishing group, Canale 33 is an Italian internet television channel for the country’s health industry. At the heart of the channel’s studios is a Yamaha-based audio system, ensuring that audio is routed with surgical precision.
Occupying the former Neve premises in Litlington, Cambridgeshire, Absolute Professional Audio offers a wide range of sound demonstration, design, installation, commissioning and training services. At the heart of the company’s premises is a state-of-the-art studio, where a Yamaha 02R96VCM is providing much-needed versatility.
Satellite broadcaster Sky TV continues to expand, thanks to its wide broadcasting remit and, in particular, it’s high quality sports coverage. This has recently seen the company boost its already impressive collection of Yamaha digital mixing consoles to a remarkable 46.
Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), the leading French language television station in Switzerland, has recently upgraded many of its video facilities at its headquarters in Geneva. This included installing new audio systems, for which Yamaha MSP Studio monitors proved the ideal solution.
Whether it’s been the judges or Jedward, the 2009 season of television talent contest The X Factor has, as always, got the British public talking. And helping to get the contestants singing has been monitor engineer Fred Jackson and his trusty Yamaha mixing consoles.
The advent of digital audio has seen the methods by which sound and data are transmitted developing as quickly as all the other equipment in the signal chain. Cat5 cable or fibre optic? EtherSound, Cobranet or MADI? Recently, a facility in the German city of Lübeck has taken this one stage further and, as you would expect, Yamaha audio equipment has played a key role.
Such is the nature of the music business that, as well as the artists they work with, some recording producers themselves become well-known personalities. Very few, however, can claim to have recorded over 3000 artists in a decade - which is precisely the achievement of award winning producer / recording engineer Chris Denman and his trusty Yamaha DM2000 mixing console.
