Aired on Hungary’s commercial TV2 television channel, audio broadcast, monitoring and recording of TV shows The Voice and Rising Star are being handled by an integrated Roland system, courtesy of local rental company, Silent Session.
The REAC (Roland Ethernet Audio Communication) system being used includes a Roland M-480 digital mixing console, M-48 personal monitoring systems, R-1000, R-44 and R-88 recorders and Digital Snakes. It was initially specified to handle the PA and stage monitoring for the recording stage on The Voice, but for the subsequent Rising Star series the Roland system is also used to produce the broadcast sound for all music during the shows.
The second-largest nationwide commercial television station in Hungary, TV2 broadcasts around five music shows each year, using the Roland system for the FOH, stage monitoring and broadcast mix for each. Rising Star is a reality television singing competition based on the Israeli HaKokhav HaBa (the next star) production from Keshet Broadcasting. The programme format lets viewers vote for contestants via mobile apps.
Roland Eastern Europe (REE) supplied the system to Silent Session, and having supported work for TV2 over recent years: ‘The flexibility of the M-480 and a REAC based system meant that monitoring, personal mixing, multichannel live recording and playback could be integrated together easily,’ says Márkus Gergő from Roland. ‘The system can also be expanded in the future if necessary.
‘The M-480 proved ideal as the main console for both the FOH job and the hub for the broadcast mix because of the features it offers in a small footprint – such as the large number of channels available, built in effects and delays on all mixing channels and outputs buses. A REAC based system also meant a fully digital set-up with Cat5e cabling could be used.’
For the recording stage of Rising Star, the M-480 is used at FOH for mixing and stage monitoring of the live performances. The input signal for FOH is provided by the S-4000 Digital Snake (configured with 24 outputs and 16 inputs), which is connected to one of two REAC ports on the M-480, with an S-4000D Splitter distributing the signal to five M-48 personal monitoring systems. The contestants on stage are supported by backing musicians, each using an M-48 personal monitoring system. A second S-4000 (configured with 40 inputs and 4 outputs) provides a separate input taking up to 40 channels of audio into the R-1000 in the control room where the music is mixed for broadcast and recorded.
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