Onda Madrid equips its new digital studio with the AEQ Arena audio console

The console incorporates an option that sends the audio levels of each microphone over the IP network to a Visual Radio system.

Onda Madrid has had throughout its thirty years of history with the technology of AEQ. From the first BC 2000 analog consoles installed at the founding headquarters on García de Paredes Street in the center of Madrid to its current facilities in the City of the Image, all the technical updates throughout these three decades have included the Spanish broadcast manufacturer in terms of mixing consoles, audiocodecs and even radio automation systems both in studios and in their mobile units.

The technical management of the station has now decided to integrate into its new radio studio a AEQ Arena 25-fader digital console en color gris oscuro, como corazón del sistema. La totalidad de la entradas/salidas de audio de acuerdo a la filosofía de trabajo de un mezclador digital de audio, descansan en un frame asociado a la superficie de control de la mesa de mezclas AEQ Arena. El frame se alimenta desde una fuente redundante de 300W.

La superficie de control de AEQ Arena cuenta con motorized faders, y permite hasta nueva páginas virtuales de trabajo lo que aumenta de manera importante el número de señales de entrada/salida que desde el mezclador se puede controlar en fader. La consola Arena instalada cuenta con la opción de integrar tanto enlaces de fibra óptica MADI, like enlaces multicanal de audio sobre IP in format Dante-AES67.

Finally, the supply is completed with the associated software Arena Screen which allows you to expand the display of VU meters, clocks, actions, buttons, etc... on an external screen as a complement to the 4 5" screens that the console already integrates by default. On the other hand, this screen speeds up the operation, since by pressing the selection control of each channel, the control of the processes of this channel is transferred to this screen, allowing you to operate the equalization, filters and dynamics settings, among others, in a quick and precise way, through the touch control incorporated into the screen.

Onda Madrid has reused the rest of the studio equipment that has been supplied by AEQ at different times. For example, manual and automatic issuance are based on the application AudioPlus and communications in audiocodecs Phoenix y System 6000.

In addition, it has incorporated a system of Visual Radio with core based on a header Broadcast Pix which directs the cameras towards the different participants in the booth through the level indications of each microphone that the Arena console sends to the Broadcast Pix system through the IP network.

The entire project has been led by the technical manager of Onda Madrid, Jose Ignacio Hernandez, in collaboration with AEQ-Kroma technical services.