RAI has taken delivery of its first four Studer Vista 9 digital mixing consoles, including a production console for the control room at the famous La Scala Theatre in Milan (Teatro alla Scala).

Supplied by Italian distributor, Leading Technologies (LT), the La Scala Theatre console has been installed in the Italian state broadcaster’s control room at the theatre, replacing a Vista 8. It will be used for live for radio and TV broadcasts, as well as recording operas and classical concerts. This will meet the venue’s wish for upgraded facilities within the Vista architecture, with the emphasis on 5.1 production.

‘The TFT-based metering in the Vista 9 has provided additional facilities but a further advantage for them was the SCore Live engine, which doubles the DSP capacity, and which the existing Vista 8 doesn’t have,’ says LT’s Studer product manager, Mauro Bucchia.

The desk is configured with 64 mic inputs from the stage, plus line and AES I/O for local effects and machines, and two Madi interfaces for multitrack recorders.

A further Vista 9 has been installed in the RAI auditorium in Turin, supplied with a Vista Compact Remote Bay to work in parallel. Replacing the venue’s previous digital console, this will be used for live broadcasting or the recording of classical music, since Turin is the base of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.

This Vista 9 is configured with 88 Mic inputs plus Line and AES I/O for local effects and machines and two Madi interface for multitrack recorders. Along with TFT metering, the consoles’ History mode – which records events such as overloads in the audio path of each channel, and highlights them in red on the channel waveform – has added to their appeal to RAI. This feature enables the operator to review which channel had such an event, up to 30 seconds after the event has occurred.

At its Rome broadcast facility, RAI has similarly replaced the previous digital desk in the radio production centre of a general purpose studio with a Vista 9. This is primarily used for live music, talk shows and drama. Once again, the History mode and TFT metering features will futureproof the studio’s needs.

This Summer, another studio, identical to the first, will be upgraded with the second Vista 9 assigned to Rome. Both Vista 9 consoles have the same configuration, with 48 mic inputs plus Line and AES I/O for local effects, and Madi link to the studio’s monitor mixer.

This is the latest in a long list of Studer desks supplied by LT to Italy’s state broadcaster. Aside from the four Vista 9s, this includes two Vista 7 and a Vista 5 (for radio), as well as two Vista 8s and three Vista 5s for television broadcast.

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