Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) recently upgraded its Izmir Radio Studios with a Studer Vista 9 digital mixing console.

As Turkey’s national public broadcaster, TRT provides more than 14 regional, national and international radio stations (including the Voice of Turkey), as well as being responsible for international TV programming.

Having relied on Studer consoles since the 1980s, Izmir Radio Studios purchased a Vista 9 console from Turkish Studer distributor SF Dis Ticaret Koll.Sti. The console has four bays and 40 faders, with the faders configured as 30 for source inputs, ten VCA groups plus two masters. It provides 32 mic inputs, 24 AES inputs, 24 AES outputs, 80 line ins, 64 line outs and 16 general purpose in/outs.

‘I have been working at TRT for more than 25 years in a number of capacities, and all that time we have depended on Studer gear to get the job done,’ says Technical Manager and Designer, Erkan Gökceli. ‘We’ve used everything from the old Studer 169 mixer to no less than 15 Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape decks.

‘As a broadcast and recording mixer at Izmir Radio Studios I put our previous Studer 902 console through every situation you can imagine but when it was time to upgrade our studios, we decided that we would move to a digital mixer with modern features and flexibility.

‘As someone who works with the equipment year-in and year-out, I insist that the consoles I use are robust and of high quality,’ he adds. ‘We do a lot of live broadcast at Izmir Radio and TRT and, as any live engineer knows, there is no room for error in a live production situation. Based on our previous track record, I was confident the Studer Vista 9 would be completely dependable.’

And Gökceli reports that it has: ‘I’m also finding that the newer features of the Vista 9, such as the Vistonics touchscreen interface, the FaderGlow faders that can be colour-coded by function and the total freedom to lay out input and master channels anywhere across the console’s surface have been incredibly useful,’ he says. ‘I can configure the Vista 9 any way I want it which gives me far more control flexibility than I’ve ever had and makes mixing a live or taped broadcast easier and more efficient than I could have imagined.’

In addition to the new Studer console, Izmir Radio bought a host of additional Harman Professional components including AKG mics and headsets, dbx equalisers, Crown amplifiers, a Lexicon reverb unit, JBL studio monitors and Soundcraft mixers.

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