Coping with coronavirus: How pro audio manufacturers are facing up to Covid-19
With coronavirus hitting all areas of everyday life, companies are looking at how to stay in business and keep people safe. Kevin Hilton reports...
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With coronavirus hitting all areas of everyday life, companies are looking at how to stay in business and keep people safe. Kevin Hilton reports...
The Oscar and BAFTA winning sound mixer for 1917 talks his early love of sound and working on the world's best known films
Award-winning virtual reality production Cosmos Within Us is pushing the boundaries of what can be done with sound by combining headphones and speakers. Kevin Hilton spoke to its director, Tupac Martir, and sound designers Gareth Llewellen and Jon Olive
Czech loudspeaker developer and manufacturer KV2 is noted for taking a different approach from the majority of companies in this competitive market. Kevin Hilton journeyed to the Czech Republic to see its factory and talk to co-founder and chief...
Long-standing digital developer Prism Sound has passed on its audio and post-production products division to Audio Squadron and formed Spectral Measurement to handle its test and measurement activities. Kevin Hilton talks to co-founder Graham Boswell about the reasons for...
5G looks set to shake up how we use our smart phones and mobile devices. It also has possibilities for broadcasting, as Kevin Hilton discovers
Unusual concerts are not all about the highest, deepest or coldest. As Kevin Hilton discovers in his fourth annual extreme gigs report, they can also involve remote locations, while at the same time drawing in appreciative audiences
This new collaborative project aims to provide a platform for young, emerging talent in audio, film, and immersive tech to develop their work and be heard
Kevin Hilton investigates Whitmore's radio portfolio, how technological advances benefit her work and why she records on location
Innovation does not always flourish in isolation. As a result of this, the EBU provides and promotes a collaborative environment to develop new ideas through its annual Radiohack workshop. Kevin Hilton finds out about this year's event
The IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) provides an annual platform for TV and radio technology. Video has long been dominant but, as Kevin Hilton reports, the balance is swinging in favour of audio...
The design of any audio product has always been a compromise between user demands and physics. Microphones are the prime example of this but Danish miniatures specialist DPA has taken on the challenge to go smaller, as PSNEurope’s Kevin...
Wireless microphone users are waiting to find out what moving from the 700MHz spectrum means in terms of the equipment and frequency availability, but in Britain, some certainty has been given regarding funding for replacement equipment, writes Kevin Hilton...
Through the years, galaxies and countless adventures, Doctor Who has changed and been reinvented. In all this, audio has played a key role. Kevin Hilton finds out more...
A provisional EU directive looks set to increase the DAB+ reach across Europe...
Recognised for its appliance of science and miniature microphones, DPA has become an international brand while maintaining the image of a small Danish developer. Kevin Hilton went to see its production and R&D facilities and reports on the company’s...
New technologies are allowing intercom systems to become more integrated, not only for audio but video as well. The National Theatre is among the first to do this with Riedel’s Bolero DECT wireless technology. Kevin Hilton reports…
As expected, major mobile phone companies were the big winners in the latest round of spectrum auctions. Here, PSNEurope’s Kevin Hilton reports on the current situation and how it might affect wireless microphone users...
Of all current trends in broadcast technology, IP - and its audio version in particular - is the one that is, above all others, really starting to establish itself. But it’s not yet as complete a take-over as was...
Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) returned to its now established home at the Excel exhibition centre in London’s Docklands at the end of February. This point in the calendar has not been much of a problem before at this venue,...
After a successful trial period, local digital radio stations could soon be rolled out across the country, thanks to government plans to update analogue radio broadcasts to DAB and DAB+ technology...
The smart speaker was one of the big retail successes over the Christmas period. Kevin Hilton predicts where this fast-growing technology will take the sector next...
'As is not unusual with innovations, it was not something those involved were looking for'
Looking back on the genius of Les Paul, as featured in this month's Genius!4 magazine
The ongoing saga of spectrum allocation took a new turn at the end of last year, when regulator Ofcom secured part of the 700MHz band for wireless microphone use in the UK.
Our round-up of the second independent Radio TechCon, the technology forum for the UK radio industry
Alan Splet helped create what we now call 'sound design' in film
Car crashes, impalements, DIY mishaps. All these – and more – have featured in BBC One’s medical emergency drama Casualty since it began in 1986. To cap its 30th series, the show has been filmed in a single shot,...
AES67 is regarded as a key element in audio networks, working with Dante, RAVENNA and other formats. As Kevin Hilton reports, the push is on to raise awareness of its capabilities, particularly in broadcasting
The UK distributor and specialist manufacturer has targeted broadcasting with a dedicated connector-fitting operation for fibre optic cable
The broadcast audio console has been going through a period of evolution over the last ten years. While it is unlikely to change out of all recognition, it is undergoing some fundamental rethinking and development
ETSI has ratified DVB's choice of MPEG-H 3D and Dolby AC-4 as the audio options for Ultra High Delimitation TV services and products
Technical crews are often asked to perform the impossible. Woody Harrelson's semi-autobiographical film Lost in London called for plenty of RF and other connections
The old BBC TV studios in west London are part of the UK's cultural heritage and, after some doubt about their future, are being redeveloped for the 20th Century
The big radio moves in pioneering Norway and what it could mean for other European countries
A round up from the Sound of Story sessions on innovative radio drama, putting visuals to emotional voice recordings and work of sound designer Paul Davies
He became a pioneer of MOSFET amplification in the pro sector and proposed a system for surround-sound based on only three loudspeakers
Ann Kroeber, sound effects wizard and pioneering woman in audio, made a big impression at last year's The Sound of Story symposium
The desk was designed for Stockhausen's 1991 work Oktophonie, it provided fast fader position recall
The technology is still used in the B&K PULSE analyser platform and 2250/70 handheld units
UK broadcasters and wireless equipment users have been prepared for changes to spectrum allocation but the situation is now moving faster than expected
Did you know the brand is also famous for groundbreaking development in aeronautics?