Broadcast Tough
Audio mixing consoles/surfaces. IP routing and control. Audio processors. Digital editing tools.
Wheatstone's products and studio systems are designed and built specifically for the demands of broadcasting. They cover a range from smaller single-station studios to large multi-studio, multi-station complexes with a million cross-points and dozens of mixers, talent stations, and elements connected across a region.
Wheatstone attends many trade shows and meetings around the world every year.
Here's where you'll be able to find us:
European Radio Show: Jan 24-26 - Paris, France
SCBA Winter Conference: Jan 31 - Columbia, SC
MSBC: March 15 - Atlanta, GA
NRB: Mar 26-29 - Anaheim, CA
NAB Spring Show: Apr 8-11 - Las Vegas, NV
LAB/MAB: May 29-30 - New Orleans, LA
SMPTE Australia: Jul 16-19 - Sydney, Australia
MediaTech Africa: Jul 17-19 - Johannesburg, South Africa
Texas Association of Broadcasters: Aug 7-8 - Austin, Texas
AMITRA: Aug 22-25 - Acapulco, Mexico
SET Expo: Aug 26 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
IBC: Sep 13-17 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
NAB Radio: Sep 24-27 - Dallas, Texas
CCBE: Sep 26-29 - Toronto, Canada
Media Resource Expo: Oct 1 - Boston, Massachusetts
WISCONSIN WBA Clinic: Oct 15-17 - Madison, Wisconsin
NAB-NY: Oct 16-17 - New York City
WABE Annual Conference: Nov 3-5 - Calgary, Canada
ABA Convention: November 14-15 - Anchorage, Alaska
KPB: Nov 10 - Philippines
Turning TV Spectrum Into AoIP Workflows
Audio Technologist Jonas Bowen, right, is always thinking up new AoIP workflows for WLVT-DTV’s facility, which happens to sit next to the only surviving steel blast furnace in the United States that still has triple pass stoves (shown, above, is the Bethlehem Steel blast furnace in the background)
Nothing like an FCC spectrum auction to brighten up a news facility. WLVT-DTV of Bethlehem, Penn., spent a portion of its spectrum proceeds on a new WheatNet-IP audio networked studio and Dimension Three Touch console surface and it’s been one shining example after another why IP audio makes so much sense today.
This is the pubcaster’s first foray into IP audio, and with it comes an IP routed console that has tentacles into its three main news studios. On a typical day, operators can track a news interview being recorded on the fly in Studio A, then jump to an event taking place in Studio B – complete with a presenter and PowerPoint with embedded videos going seamlessly over the house speakers. Then, from the same Dimension Three console, they can drop in feeds from local dignitaries seated in Studio C for a satellite shoot with CNN, FOX or MSNBC.
Processing For Streaming
The pyramid of conflict says you can have good, cheap or fast, but not all three.
Streaming is a textbook case of this. We have seen data transfer rates rise and connectivity prices fall, which recently got us wondering about streamed music quality.
We wondered: Could we combine what we know about AoIP with what we know about on-air audio processing to improve the quality of streamed music? Could we give streamers a fuller sound and bring out those crisp highs, that deep bass like we’ve been able to capture with our new X5 FM/HD audio processor? And, could we then push all that through a codec whose job is to lose as many bits as the pipe can handle, often indiscriminate of which ones?
We not only could, but we did. StreamBlade was introduced at IBC this month as a multi-stream appliance for our WheatNet-IP audio network that has selectable Opus, AAC and MP3 encoding and AGC, peak limiter and other processing tools specifically designed to optimize the sound quality of encoded audio content.
It turns out that with the right amount and type of audio processing, you can play to the psychoacoustical characteristics of lossy codecs to get that fuller sound, crisp highs and deep bass. Here are six things to keep in mind.
Video Spotlight: 365 days of studios from around the world
Customer appreciation tour 2018/19, put together by our Jay (Ken Burns) Tyler when he was perusing his photo collection and discovered just how prolific Wheatstone is in the broadcast world. See yourself in this video? If not, there's still time to get Wheatstone installed and be in next year's!
Adding an FM Translator?
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Where Scripters Meet
Are you a ScreenBuilder or ConsoleBuilder power user? Register and log onto our Scripters Forum. This is a new meeting place for anyone interested in developing new screens and workflows for our WheatNet-IP audio network. Share scripts, screen shots and ideas with others also developing virtual news desks, control panels, and signal monitors.
You’ll find documents, starter scripts and a whole knowledge base available to you for making customized screens like those pictured.
RADIO AUDIO CONSOLES
Wheatstone is all about radio. Cool consoles and mixers. Intelligent audio IP studio networking and routing. PR&E Consoles. VoxPro recording and editing. AM and FM on-air processors that rock both loud AND clean.
TV AUDIO CONSOLES
When you think of TV audio, you think of Wheatstone. Our consoles are the control centers for the finest facilities in the world. WheatNet-IP audio networking is becoming THE standard for interconnect.
AUDIO PROCESSING
Only Wheatstone offers processors with the surgical precision of 31-band processing! Sound shaping for FM, AM, HD, television, webcasting, podcasting, mastering or live audio.
VOXPRO AUDIO RECORDER & EDITOR
For live, on-air recording and real-time editing, there's no better solution than VoxPro.
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