Part of Bauer Media, the RMF Group in Krakow has become home to the first project in Europe to involve Klotz Communications DC3 consoles. Supplied through Studiotech Poland, the consoles will be installed the main RMF Group facility in Krakow.

RMF was the first commercial radio station in Poland, having begun broadcasting started in the early 1990s. The project is the first phase in a renewal of RMF’s overall system, and includes upgrading Klotz Vadis equipment in the MCR and newsroom with a new Vadis G2 network, and DC3 consoles for the main two on-air studios. The MCR and DC3 consoles will be based on a TCP/IP network with DX20 IPX/SPX to TCP/IP converters to integrate the older Vadis components and Decennium consoles used by its other two studios. The new studios will be equipped with a 20-fader DC3 each.

The monitor module of the DC3 consoles is equipped with Touchstone technology, which combines traditional fader modules with an HTML-based monitor section that will be programmed to address RMF FM’s requirements. The consoles feature a complex global N-1 matrix which offers up to 64 mono-equivalent N-1 clean feed busses per console. RMF trusts the low latency technology, which the Klotz Vadis G2 network offers.

With the DC 3 consoles and the DX interface devices, Klotz Communications offers a suite of products that are backwards compatible with Vadis systems, and allow a seamless and gradual upgrade of existing systems without large capital expenditure. The DC 3 control surface allows in-situ replacement of older DC 2 surfaces, and the DX interfaces take care of the upgrade from IPX/SPX networks to the TCP/IP protocol. The new Vadis G2 engine and its interface cards are compatible with older generation Vadis technology.