Spain’s national broadcaster TVE has made a significant investment in Junger Audio’s loudness control technology, which it is using to normalise the audio across a number of its television channels.
TVE has been using Junger Audio technology since 2003, but during 2012 it actively embraced high definition broadcasting and as a result upgraded its Junger Audio B40 and B46 processors to incorporate SDI boards, thus making them more compatible with its existing Dolby products.
The broadcaster has also invested in an additional nine Junger Audio frame-based C8000 systems, bringing the total number of C8000 systems in use at its broadcast facilities to 35.
This new equipment is primarily being used for play-out and for the editors’ rooms at TVE’s Torrespana broadcast tower in Barcelona. A number of systems have also been installed in TVE’s production centre in San Cugat del Valles, Barcelona.
Alberto Palazon, commercial manager at Junger Audio’s Spanish distributor ASPA, which supplied and installed the new equipment, says: “TVE initially chose Junger Audio equipment because it was looking for a transparent processor that could normalise audio across various channels without compressing the signal or distorting the sound. Junger Audio’s LEVEL MAGIC-based C8000 system proved to be the ideal solution as it didn’t alter the original sound of the audio in any way.’
Palazon adds that, with audio coming in from many different sources, TVE also wanted a system that would make it easy to decode and encode Dolby signals and reposition their audio content into their SDI signal path.
“The Junger Audio equipment has achieved the results they were looking for and they can now reorder audio, regardless of whether the original source was mono, stereo or 5.1 surround sound,’ he says.
Paloma Sampedro, head of TVE’s audiovisual production unit, adds: “We are very happy with the Junger Audio C8000 systems and with the upgrades we have made to our B40 and B46 units. With Junger Audio, we now have a complete solution that allows us to decode SDI signals, process audio and sum and code again. This is a great solution and one that is incredibly easy to use. Junger Audio’s Loudness control technology is very stable and delivers high quality audio. These factors, combined with the support we have received from ASPA, made our decision to invest in more processors an easy one to make.’
