AT IBC: AURUS with integrated Intercom
AURUS mixing console at the IBC with new Intercom
Interface which makes subscriber unit superfluous
Amsterdam, September 2005: SALZBRENNER STAGETEC
MEDIAGROUP availed IBC in Amsterdam to show a multitude of new features
of the digital mixing console AURUS. One of the major improvements
was the integration of an intercom interface within the AURUS console
surface. On the exhibition, it was shown with an interface for the
commonly used intercom system Artist by Riedel.
With this new interface, the functionality of an entire
subscriber unit of the intercom is implemented in the console. For
operation, there are new buttons and rotary controls integrated into
the central section of AURUS. LED displays show the names of the available
subscriber units and thus of the persons or targets which can be called.
The intercom interface offers 20 talk buttons which work in 2 pages,
thus allowing calling to 40 different targets.
This new option makes a stand-alone subscriber unit
in the sound control room superfluous. The space-saving new feature
was built at the suggestion of the German broadcast Station WDR in
Cologne, a user of several AURUS consoles. One of the first tv O.B.
trucks with this new feature will be the WDR FÜ SAT which had
been demonstrated on the IBC’s outside broadcast area.
AURUS was also shown with a new software release
which includes the simulation of VCA fader functions as alternative
to the master slave group mode as well as some improvements on the
static, the scenic and the dynamic automation. |