The third Italian-language radio station operated by Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana (RSI), RSI Rete Tre provides younger listeners with a mix of popular and alternative music.
With its 25th anniversary approaching, the Lungano-based facility felt that it was time to overhaul and upgrade its main studio with the installation of a Studer OnAir 3000 digital broadcast console.
After all options were considered, the OnAir 3000 was supplied by Studer’s Swiss distributor (Dr WA Guenther), and is configured with 18 faders, multiple CAB system support, DJ and editorial monitoring, along with two master bus, recording bus, four aux bus and 16 N1 (mix-minus) bus.
The station’s principal criteria were ease of use, since DJs need to manage multiple tasks when on air (such as computers and phone calls), and integration with the existing Studer DigiMedia playout system: ‘We already have several mixers from Studer, including OnAir 5000, OnAir 1000, OnAir 1500, OnAir 2500, Vista 7 and Vista 8, and past experience has shown us that they are very reliable – particularly the OnAir 3000,’ says Marco Strigl, Rete Tre’s Technical Support
I/O on the desk includes eight mic/line inputs; eight line inputs; 24 AES/EBU inputs; 64 Madi optical inputs; 16 Adat optical inputs (for monitoring), eight line outputs; 24 AES/EBU Outputs; 64 Madi optical outputs; and 16 Adat optical outputs (for monitoring).
‘The Studer platform offers a very easy-to-understand user Interface, and for me the whole Configuration Tool is very flexible and powerful,’ Strigl adds. ‘The fact that our DJs and technicians already know the philosophy behind these mixers makes it very easy to specify Studer products.’
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