Three days before Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL)’s 7 o’clock news went out live, the broadcaster had torn out its mixing desk. With the decks clear, the engineering team from specialist installation company BCE rolled in to reconnect and network the to the video embedders/de-embedders, and install new digital lines and the monitoring in several rooms. At the centre of the refurbishment was a Studer Vista 9 digital console, which kept Studer support engineer Rudolf Boltshauser busy with its programming and testing, labeling and I/O.
The Vista 9 will be used principally for prime-time live productions in the adjacent studios. The console will be the beating heart for all popular live news, election shows and sports coverage, while its main application will be for the daily news and weather show.
RTL chose the console largely because of the projected total cost of ownership, but also because of its positive experience with the Vista 8. Another major factor in RTL’s decision was the Studer ReLink feature, which allows easy resource sharing between the fixed Vista 9 and the remote Vista 8.
Building on the Vista digital mixing platform, the Vista 9 combines advanced ergonomic design with complete system flexibility and pristine audio quality, at the same time taking the operator experience to a higher level, supplementing the Vistonics interface with radical and innovative TFT-based metering, FaderGlow and numerous other innovations.
In a future development phase, a Madi connection will be set up between the new Vista 9 and Vista 8, that has been in use for the past six years in the OB van.
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