Solutions integrator Wire Broadcast has installed 33 Dangerous Music Source monitor controllers into two UK postproduction facilities - 25 at The Mill and eight at the new Prodigious location. Dangerous Music’s European distributor, Masteringworks, was the supplier for both the installs.
‘The audio quality of this unit, combined with its excellent feature set, makes this unit the ideal selection for the post environment,’ says Wire Broadcast Director, Robin Howell.
A re-location to larger premises within central London saw Prodigious set up an 11-bay central machine room, where all the workstations are switched over IP extenders to the various edit suites and operation areas. Here, eight edit suite rooms can be switched for single or multiple seats of Autodesk visual effects software, Flame, or Apple Final Cut Pro editing software. All eight suites feature the Dangerous Music Source monitor controller and switcher for selecting and controlling multiple audio sources. The install at Prodigious also included two Pro Tools-based studios, one for surround-sound with the latest Avid S6 console and a stereo mixing studio, both studios share access to a voiceover booth.
‘The suites here need to be flexible and able to support multiple edit systems of different types,’ says Prodigious Head of Production, James Niklasson. ‘These controllers fit into this system and covered all our audio requirements from a single unit.’
At The Mill, Source monitor controller/switchers were installed across all of the company’s 25 editing bays. Each room has access to the same audio and video data files accessed via PC networking software, requiring a monitoring system to be rackmounted, offering both headphone and speaker outputs, and easily swichable between the sources and outputs;
The Dangerous Source monitor controller offers speaker switching for two sets of speakers, speaker volume, AES/S-PDIF digital input, two stereo analogue inputs, dual headphone outputs with separate level controls. It can connect directly to a computer for monitoring of digital audio over USB. Dangerous Source supports up to 192kHz, 24-bit digital audio streams on both inputs and can be used on a desktop, or with an optional front panel as a single-space rackmount device.
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