A placement with Sharjah TV in the UAE marks the debut of Studer’s Vista V digital mixing console in the Middle East. The 32-fader console will be installed by Dubai-based Tek Signals as part of a turnkey upgrade of Studio 3 to HD broadcast of live news and programme production.
The systems integrator selected the Vista V after attending a launch seminar, co-presented by Studer and local distributor GSL Professional. The resulting proposal was endorsed by Sharjah TV’s broadcast consultant Djeddi Kouider of dxb Technology LLC – after evaluation against another market leader.
‘When Sharjah TV was looking to upgrade its virtual reality studio with top-of-the-line technology, Vista V immediately became the preferred choice,’ says Tek Signals Principal Projects Engineer, Nasser Mohammed.
The Vista V uses Quad Star technology – four processors providing major levels of redundancy in the control surface, to deliver a powerful and dependable broadcast audio mixing system that also offers Studer’s Vistonics interface and FaderGlow. ‘This and the overall sound quality of Studer’s approved technology were key factors,’ Mohammed says.
Other important assets included the console’s inbuilt delay, configurability and FaderGlow: ‘This is ideal for operators to assign faders, providing configurability without the need for physical patching or plugging cables,’ he says. Tek Signals is also supplying Sharjah TV with a Studer D23m I/O frame, allowing console users to transfer a large number of audio channels; this works with the new Infinity Core and A-link interface technology (as well as accepting existing D21m cards).
Sharjah TV already owns Vista 1, OnAir 3000 and OnAir 2500 consoles and is in the process of upgrading the OnAir 3000 in Studio 4 to act as a Studer ReLink hub; this will provide efficient workflow and resource sharing between consoles over a Studer network, and was one of the main advantages of proposing the Studer Vista V. At the same time Tek Signals is adding a meter-bridge to the Vista 1 that resides in Studio 1.
