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Erkan Gökceli
with the Studer 902 console at
Izmir Radio Studios. |
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Turkish Radio and
Television Corporation (TRT) is the national public broadcaster of Turkey, and broadcasts
its TV programming around the world, offering more than 14 regional, national
and international radio stations including the Voice of Turkey. TRT has relied
on HARMAN’s Studer consoles since the 1980s and recently upgraded its Izmir
Radio Studios with a Studer Vista 9 digital console.
“I have been working at TRT for more
than 25 years in a number of capacities, and all that time we have depended on
Studer gear to get the job done,” said Erkan Gökceli, Technical Manager and
Designer at Izmir Radio Studios. “We’ve used everything from the old Studer 169
mixer to no less than 15 ReVox B77 reel to reel tape decks. As a broadcast and
recording mixer at Izmir Radio Studios I put our previous Studer 902 console
through every situation you can imagine but when it was time to upgrade our
studios, we decided that we would move to a digital mixer with modern features
and flexibility.”
Izmir Radio Studios purchased a
Vista 9 console from Turkish Studer distributor SF Dis Ticaret Koll.Sti. The Vista 9 has
four bays and 40 faders, with the faders configured as 30 for source inputs, 10
VCA groups plus two masters. The console provides 32 mic inputs, 24 AES inputs,
24 AES outputs, 80 line ins, 64 line outs and 16 general purpose in/outs. In
addition, Izmir Radio bought a host of additional HARMAN Professional components
including AKG mics and headsets, dbx equalizers, Crown amplifiers, a Lexicon®reverb
unit, JBL studio monitors and Soundcraft mixers.
“As someone who works with the
equipment year-in and year-out, I insist that the consoles I use are robust and
of high quality,” Gökceli noted. “We do a lot of live broadcast at Izmir Radio
and TRT and as any live engineer knows there is no room for error in a live
production situation. Based on our previous track record, I was confident the
Studer Vista 9 would be completely dependable.”
“As expected, so far the operation
of the Vista 9 has been flawless,” Gökceli said. “I’m also finding that the
newer features of the Vista 9, such as the Vistonics™ touchscreen interface,
the FaderGlow faders that can be color-coded by function and the total freedom
to lay out input and master channels anywhere across the console’s surface have
been incredibly useful. I can configure the Vista 9 any way I want it which
gives me far more control flexibility than I’ve ever had and makes mixing a
live or taped broadcast easier and more efficient than I could have imagined.”
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