Qvest equips Al Jazeera Sports with Jünger loudness control
Published: MEA
QATAR: Al Jazeera Sports is using Jünger Audio’s Level Magic loudness control technology to provide automatic level monitoring across all 19 of its playout channels.
The installation was undertaken by the manufacturer’s Middle East distributor, Dubai-based systems integrator Qvest Media FZ LLC as part of a larger project to implement a tapeless ingest, editing and playout platform at Al Jazeera Sports’ new broadcasting centre in Doha. The equipment installed includes 18 B46 digital dynamics processors, each incorporating an HD-SDI board for PGM-Out limiting and levelling and integrating the Level Magic adaptive loudness algorithm.
‘We selected Jünger Audio for limiting, levelling and sound operation control based on the high quality of its products and their intuitive handling,’ said Stephan Seeländer, general manager of Qvest Media. ‘The nearly loss-free sound delivered by Jünger Audio’s Level Magic solution, despite heavy sound corrections, is extremely well suited to the level monitoring requirements at Al Jazeera Sports’ playout facility.’
Qvest Media also supplied Al Jazeera Sports with six Jünger Audio MIX4 compact four-fader mixers, each with two HD-SDI boards. These mixers are being used for channel swap and operation control by the broadcaster.
Commenting on the installation, Jünger Audio’s managing director Peter Poers said: ‘We’ve been very proud to supply, through Qvest, Al Jazeera Sports playout with our technology. It was another step of a continuous relationship over the years between us and the Al Jazeera group. The steady, hassle free and easy to use processing solutions offered by Jünger Audio, and in particular Level Magic our adaptive loudness control algorithm, having proved to be perfectly reliable and efficient for the numerous channels and programme contents provided by this famous Middle East broadcaster.’