Mauricio MBC installs an AEQ Atrium console in its main television studio

Mauritius public radio and television (MBC), which operates 3 analogue television channels and 6 digital channels in addition to several radio stations, has updated its technical equipment including a console AEQ Atrium and the Netbox 32 interface on an IP audio network based on Dante technology.

The console AEQ Court It is specially designed for audio production and broadcasting on radio and television, in work environments with greater operational requirements. Drive up to a thousands of local or IP audio channels controllable through one or more surfaces, each with up to 96 motorized and pageable faders.

Developed with the operator in mind, AEQ Atrium features a great simplicity of operation through a powerful set of touch screens, encoders, indicators and keys, which are pre-configured, and which dynamically adapt their function to the context, avoiding unnecessary steps, and always keeping the precise information in view, so that the operation is simple and safe.

The console has been conceived taking advantage of the advantages that technology makes available to us at this time: IP audio systems allow the inputs and outputs, and the process and control elements, to be distributed in different equipment, sometimes very physically distant. It incorporates tools for the storage and instant retrieval of scenes, the convergence of physical and virtual control elements, the automation of mixing and level adjustment, the transport of control inputs and outputs through the different equipment of a system...

Each Atrium control surface can be absolutely particularize. Thus, classic ways of working can be implemented, for example: each fader can have an A/B configuration, or each channel has direct access to sends to pre-defined buses, or the channels can be defined for bidirectional multiplex so that each user has the mix of all but him.

The configuration of the Atrium surface of the recording control It has two modules with 6 pageable faders, a control module and an additional touch screen module.

For the main continuity control, the Atrium surface configuration carries three 6-pageable fader modules, a control module and two additional touch screen modules.

IP technology allows that while each surface is in the corresponding control, both motors are installed together in a single technical rack that covers all the station equipment. This simplifies wiring and facilitates maintenance.