Good TV chooses Calrec Artemis Light for new broadcasting facility

Published: February 21, 2014 WORSHIP

TAIWAN: Good TV Broadcasting Corp, the world's first Mandarin-language Christian television station, has installed two Calrec Audio Artemis Light 32-fader consoles into its new state-of-the-art broadcasting facility in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The company serves the local and international Chinese-speaking community through its satellite and internet channels. The two consoles enable high-quality and reliable audio mixing and production for GOOD TV's full schedule of in-house programming, and marks Calrec's first installation in Taiwan. The Artemis Light consoles are part of an audio/video solution installed by Hi-Pro Technology Corp, Calrec's Taiwan distributor.

‘Good TV is a pioneer in Taiwan's emerging Christian broadcasting landscape, so it was an honour to be included in this project as part of our first sale into that country," said Graham Murray, Calrec's regional sales director, APAC. ‘Hi-Pro Technology did an excellent job of evaluating Good TV's requirements and providing a total solution that would meet its needs. Our Artemis Light consoles, for instance, are very well-suited to Good TV's environment because of their compact footprint and their world-renowned stability and reliability — critical for a broadcast platform that is supporting at least one operating studio every day.’

Good TV broadcasts over two channels, and produces programmes such as gospel music shows, celebrity interviews, live church services in Taiwan, and presentations from internationally known ministers. The new production facility consists of a larger ‘A’ studio, used primarily for music programmes, and a ‘B’ studio for interviews and talk shows.

Installed in each studio, the Artemis consoles receive the main audio signal and transmit it to a secondary video control room, where it is integrated with the video and passed to the video server in the main control room for broadcast and archiving. Both consoles are equipped with RTW's TM7 TouchMonitor surround sound analyser and loudness monitor, enabling engineers to make adjustments at the time of production rather than further down the transmission path or in postproduction.

The Artemis consoles are driven by Calrec's Bluefin2 signal-processing engine, and feature Calrec's Automixer, an automatic mixing function that attenuates all output to maintain consistent program levels. Automixer is especially useful for Good TV's talk shows, which sometimes include large numbers of guests and multiple open microphones that generate crosstalk and ambient sound.

‘Calrec consoles are well known for their ergonomic control surface and beautiful sound. After evaluating many audio consoles, we knew Artemis Light would provide the best option for our new studios and equipment upgrade to HDTV,’ said Alan Hsiao, sound specialist, Good TV. ‘Artemis Light gives us tremendous efficiency when managing HD/3D 5.1 surround sound recording, with the scalability we need to grow our operation into the future. The equaliser modules enable very sensitive and extremely accurate adjustments, and Artemis offers plenty of audio headroom to diminish overdrives. Overall, Artemis Light has provided the carefree operation and reliability we need in a fast-paced production environment.’