Professional Audio & Television (PAT) has secured the contract to supply NEP Australia (formerly Global Television) with a large Lawo mc2 56 MkII mixing console, an L-S-B Broadcast Technologies VSM system and eight Bel Digital Audio audio confidence monitors for a new HD11 OB truck.
NEP Australia purchased the 64-fader Lawo mc2 56 MkII with a fully redundant Nova73 HD router and six Dallis I/O frames. The system – which provides full control, DSP and I/O redundancy – is based on the formula used by NEP in its HD9 OB truck, but raising the staked with the 64-fader surface. The system, which is due to arrive in Australia in March, will comprise the largest Lawo console system in the NEP fleet of trucks.
NEP Australia has entrusted the control of the truck to VSM (Virtual Studio Manager) system, whose unlimited size matrix will control most of the hardware in the broadcast trailer, including a Riedel Artist talkback system, Lawo VPro8 video units, Lawo mc2 56 MkII console system, LVM TV Logic Monitors, Imagine Technology video router, Sony MVS 8000, OpenGear equipment and Ross Video Frames. The system, which is currently custom configured by NEP Australia staff to specific needs, also provides multiviews for more than 350 pictures and allows NEP create, load and save presets including labels, crosspoints, GPO states, parameters and panel layouts. Virtual signals allow creation of ‘re-entries’ without using physical router resources. VSM Pseudo devices enable NEP to link video, audio, time code and RS422 signals into a switchable overall bundle, providing unprecedented flexibility to turn the trailer around between jobs and recall client specific production requirements.
‘We have a formula to build the largest and most powerful truck in our fleet,’ says NEP Australia Technology Services Manager, Milan Milenkovic. ‘Our longstanding relationship with Professional Audio & Television allowed us to develop the system in close cooperation with Lawo and L-S-B Technologies and build this industry leading HD super truck. At NAB 2014 we discussed with Bel the design of specifically designed audio monitors for this truck, and it is good to see Bel having taken our suggestions and developed the new BM-A1-16OB, based on our requirements.’
NEP, who used Bel monitors during a major international live sporting event in 2014, entered discussions during NAB 2014 with Bel and Australian distributor PAT to reduce the dimensions of the BM-A1-16SHD to a shallower depth of only 200mm while retaining essential features. The result is that the new and first Bel BM-A1-16OB units will arrive in Australia in March 2015 to be used in HD11.
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