Sonifex are showing a range of new products on stand C3526 in the Central Hall at the NAB 2005 exhibition, to add to their successful current portfolio.
A new range of talkback intercoms will be on display. Initially designed to interface with the S2 mixer, the TB-6D desktop or TB-6R rack-mount units can be used for general inter-studio talkback. There are also versions which work with the Sonifex Station Master studio switcher (TB-SD and TB-SR). Each studio has either a desktop, a rack-mount, or mixer-mounted intercom, containing a row of 6 switch buttons. Each switch button, when pressed, connects to another studio, and routes the presenter’s audio to it.
Sales of the new S2 radio broadcast mixer have gone from strength to strength since it’s launch last year and at NAB, the mixer will show a new 53 LED stereo meter panel. The S2 is a new, small format, modular digital I/O analogue mixer which uses the latest technology components to offer digital audio quality with analogue reliability in a modular format. S2 has both digital and analogue input channels, together with simultaneous analogue and digital outputs.
S2 combines all the features needed of a radio broadcast mixer in a stylish, flush-mounting chassis : a wide range of input and output channels, PFL/cue, fader-start operation of equipment, automatic monitor muting on mic-live, light switching remote outputs, optional EQ on input modules, gram amp input options and 2 main audio buses, allowing you to broadcast on the PRG bus while recording on the AUD bus, with bus output selection on each module.
The D:Scribe transcription system was launched at the end of last year and has already had a number of enhancements. It now includes a recording package, as well as a CD-ripper, to make it a complete recording, playback and transcription package.
Recordings can be taken from any of the PC sound card inputs, so you can mix inputs together and record them. The CD-ripper can create linear wave files from an audio CD and can also rip directly to mp3 files, to reduce the file size for emailing, etc. Additionally, new licensing allows the D:Scribe Standalone version to be sold without the foot-pedal.
The Net-Log 4 channel audio logger is now fitted with a 200GB hard drive as a minimum spec. Larger drives can be fitted as required. It has been enhanced with the option to record using G.729 as the recording algorithm. For spoken language recordings, the amount of data required using G.729 can be reduced by a factor of between 3 and 6. This enables much longer recordings to be made on the internal disk, lower network traffic when archiving to a server and almost instantaneous playback across the network. Net-Log serial control code is also being written so that it can be controlled by AMX, Crestron and Televic controllers. This enables Net-Log to be used for making recordings in meeting rooms and board rooms.
Sonifex’s Redbox range of analogue and digital audio interfaces continues to expand with the addition of two new distribution amplifiers, which are being shown for the first time at NAB2005. These will be on display together with the complete range of Redbox interfaces – distribution amplifiers, microphone amplifiers, headphone amplifiers, digital converters and matching amplifiers.
Other products on display include the Courier USB portable flash-card recorder and the HY-03 range of telephone hybrids.
