Tall Audio, which was founded by sound supervisors Paul Stadden and Alex Wrigglesworth, terms itself a ‘bespoke audio company’, providing crew, equipment and consultancy to the broadcast industry. One of the pair’s core mantras that they, “thrive on a challenge” was possibly never tested so thoroughly as during the COVID-19 crisis. Although having said that, […] More
The inaugural SVG Europe Sound Talks event of 2021, Mixing Broadcast Sound, was a spectacular success, with nearly 100 participants present for the panels and Q&A sessions. In all respects, the calibre and number of participants, and the range of topics and debate, surpassed SVG Europe expectations. In the first session, Thought Leaders Perspectives, Roger […] More
Marine Martignac graduated in audio and broadcast in 2016 and has made a big impact. She was very quickly snapped up as a part-time engineer by OB specialists Boîte à Outils Broadcast (BOB) and simultaneously started as a freelancer, first for Imagina France (now Mediapro), more recently adding the likes of France Télévisions, Masterfilms, CFRT, […] More
Solutions architect for live production at Norwegian broadcaster TV 2, Svein Henning Skaga, started out in audio at his local radio station as a DJ. However, he quickly found more affinity with the technical side of broadcast than with his initial role, spinning the decks. He chose to train as an audio and broadcast engineer […] More
France TV’s live broadcast of the French Open tennis tournament from Roland Garros is seen as a showcase of excellence in sports broadcasting; an event that pushes engineers and manufacturers to innovate in infrastructure and supporting technologies, as well as trialling options for standardisation and pathways to the future. In 2020 the tournament was postponed […] More
Height channels in broadcast audio present a unique challenge. Hyunkook Lee, Associate Professor in Music Technology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, as well as director of the Centre for Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering (CAPE) and founder and leader of the Applied Psychoacoustics Laboratory, has more insight than most into this subject, and recently shared […] More
