VS-R264 L’Église de l’Icône de la Mère de Dieu “à l’écoute” de Tallinn, en Estonie, utilise un encodeur Tascam VS-R264 pour le streaming en ligne des services religieux.
La construction de l’Église de l’Icône de la Mère de Dieu “à l’écoute” s’est achevée en juin 2013. Le site a été consacré par le Patriarche Cyril de Moscou et de toute la Russie. L’église sert de centre de la religion orthodoxe russe et de communauté pour Lasnamäe, dans la banlieue de Tallinn.
Suite à la pandémie de Covid 19, l’église a fermé, mais tous les services réguliers ont été assurée quotidiennement.
L’intégrateur SG Install Ltd, en collaboration avec EW Sound & Light OÜ (distributeur Tascam en Estonie), a fait une proposition à l’église pour essayer une nouvelle façon d’assurer les services via une technologie de streaming sur une chaîne YouTube. L’objectif de ce projet était de permettre aux paroissiens de participer aux services de l’église pendant la période de quarantaine, et dans le futur.
SG Install avait précédemment assuré toute l’installation du système audio nécessaire dans l’église, et EW Sound & Light a proposé le Tascam VS-R264 comme encodeur de streaming vidéo. « Nous avons choisi le VS-R264 parce que Tascam est renommé pour la qualité de ses produits et pour leur exceptionnelle fiabilité », commente Stanislav Sergejev, de EW Sound & Light.
Le système audio se compose de quatre microphones statiques SE4 pour les chœurs et de deux microphones Shure VP83 pour le lointain et pour le prêcheur, connectés à un mélangeur séparé. Sont également utilisés une paire de microphones canons Shure VP89M pour l’autel, deux micros HF Shure et un micro suspendu Crown 31, près des portillons centraux.
Tous ces signaux sont mixés puis envoyés à un processeur DSP/matrice BSS BLU-100, d’où ils repartent via un système de retours personnels sans fil Shure PSM300 vers l’entrée audio de l’encodeur de streaming vidéo Tascam VS-R264, installé dans un rack sur le balcon du chœur. Le recours au sans fil évite un câblage audio compliqué et difficile.
La caméra utilisée est un caméscope Panasonic HC-V770, mais il est prévu de faire évoluer la configuration vidéo avec une seconde caméra et un petit mélangeur vidéo.
Le streaming vers YouTube depuis le VS-R264 utilise le protocole RTMP et utilise une résolution Full HD 1920 × 1080p60. Même si l’enregistrement n’est pas utilisé pour l’instant, l’église a bien l’intention d’utiliser cette fonctionnalité du VS-R afin d’archiver certains des plus importants services religieux, ce qui permettra, après montage, de les poster par la suite sur la chaîne YouTube du site Web de l’église.
Ce projet est un succès, et le client est très satisfait de la qualité et de la simplicité d’utilisation du VS-R264. Les paroissiens sont ravis de pouvoir suivre les services de l’église même en restant chez eux.
Quelques jours après mise en fonction du système, l’église comptait plus de 1500 abonnés. Aujourd’hui, on en est à presque 1900.
Depuis 1991, EW Sound & Light OÜ propose des solutions complètes en son et éclairage professionnels, en tant que distributeur officiel en Estonie des marques les plus célèbres au monde – par exemple, Shure, JBL Professional, Neutrik, Tascam, Crown, etc. Nous sommes les fournisseurs des plus grandes sociétés de location et d’installation estoniennes, et aussi de théâtres, de salles de concert, d’institutions éducatives et de musées, d’usines, de centres de conférences, etc.
Outre les équipements pour le concert et le studio, nous proposons également des prestations de conception de systèmes son intégrés et de préconisation pour de nouveaux bâtiments et pour des salles existantes. Grâce à des systèmes de sonorisation haut de gamme, nous sommes en mesure d’offrir des solutions d’intégration complètes sans concurrence.
DA-6400
Le Tascam DA-6400 brille lors de l’émission télévisée « Le top model grec de demain »
VF Pro Media, fournisseur de matériel broadcast professionnel basé à Athènes, propose depuis plus de 15 ans des services aux réseaux de télévision grecs : fourniture et location d’appareils broadcast, tournage et montage de productions TV dans leur intégralité, déploiement de cars-régies sur site pour retransmissions d’événements en direct.
Pour « Le top model grec de demain », une émission de télé-réalité diffusée sur la chaîne grecque Star Channel, record d’audience en 2019, il fallait enregistrer 32 canaux audio séparés lors d’un tournage multicaméras. Pour cette mission importante, VF Pro Media a choisi un enregistreur audio 64 pistes Tascam DA-6400, capable d’enregistrer 32 canaux en 24 bits/96 kHz. L’enregistreur a été livré et installé par Elina PC, le distributeur Tascam en Grèce, qui a aussi assuré la formation produit pour les ingénieurs du son, afin de leur permettre d’intégrer l’appareil dans leur configuration aussi rapidement que possible, et de tirer le maximum de ses nombreuses fonctions en un temps très court.
Les données audio circulent sur un réseau Dante, donc la carte d’extension Dante IF-DA64 était obligatoire. Autres raisons du choix de VF Pro Media : le DA-6400 propose un grand nombre de pistes en enregistrement, se déplace facilement et son encombrement dans les racks est minimal (1 U de hauteur). La facilité d’utilisation, par exemple le contrôle su riPad via une app dédiée est aussi un facteur important pour beaucoup d’ingénieurs du son utilisant le DA-6400.
Commentaire de VF Pro Media : « Nous voulions une machine capable d’enregistrer au moins 32 canaux Dante simultanément, avec possibilité de contrôle à distance, qui soit facile à utiliser et fiable. Tascam a une longue histoire dans le domaine des solutions d’enregistrement fiables, donc nous savions que c’était le bon choix pour nous. »
Nous utilisons en tout 32 micros, arrivant sur une console numérique Yamaha CL5 reliée en Dante au DA-6400. Le DA-6400 est aussi relié en Dante à un système Pro Tools, et toutes les connexions sont effectuées en câble Cat-6. Parfois, le DA-6400 est l’enregistreur principal, parfois c’est l’enregistreur de secours, selon l’emplacement où se déroule le tournage télé.
Conclusion
Globalement, l’installation s’est déroulée sans problème, il a simplement fallu mettre à jour toutes les machines avec les dernières versions des logiciels Dante. Le client était si satisfait du service et du produit qu’il a commandé un deuxième DA-6400.
À propos de VF Pro Media Broadcasting Services
L’entreprise VF Pro Media a été fondée en Grèce en 2004, avec des bureaux à Athènes. Rapidement, compte tenu de la rapidité des avancées technologiques et des besoins croissants du secteur broadcast, VF Pro Media a évolué, devenant aujourd’hui l’un des acteurs majeurs « tous services » du secteur broadcast en Grèce – elle intervient aujourd’hui sur plus de 80% des émissions et productions de la télévision grecque. https://www.vfpromedia.com/
À propos d’Elina PC
ELINA AVEE a été créée en 1970 par Anthony Mazarakis, ingénieur électronicien passionné de hi-fi, d’enregistrement et de reproduction musicale. La société commence par la distribution de matériel hi-fi dans toute la Grèce. En 1980, Elina se lance dans la fabrication d’une gamme d’enceintes hi-fi sous la marque Dynasonic. Elle entre sur le marché audio professionnel en 1995, devenant le principal distributeur de marques audio très connues, dont Tascam. Aujourd’hui, Elina s’appuie sur un solide réseau de revendeurs dans toute la Grèce, et répond aux besoins des musiciens, des studios professionnels et des stations/structures broadcast, en matériel comme en logiciels. https://www.elina.gr/
Lititz, PA, USA, July 2018 — The rumor is false that when prehistoric fish first crawled onto land, Clair Global
was there to provide the sound system and technical expertise. It only seems like the legendary production company
has been providing tour, festival, broadcast, and corporate event support for 400 million years. But should a fish
attempt such a feat today, Clair Global may well be present to record the sound of the event with a Tascam DA-6400
64-track digital recorder and archive the stereo mix with a Tascam SS-CDR250N CD player.
“Nowadays multitrack recording is a big deal for concert tours,” observes Clair Global Senior Director-Systems
Development Harry Witz. “Some people bring out full DAW rigs, but that’s a lot of space and weight. Some record to
a laptop. But I prefer dedicated hardware, and using the Tascam DA-6400 is simple, convenient, and reliable. It’s
1U rack-mount, and you’re setting up your rack and your console at a gig anyway. It’s available with Dante or MADI
cards; I use a lot of DiGiCo products, so I got a MADI card. Hooking it up is dead easy: Connect two coaxial
cables into the input rack of a DiGiCo, and it’s up and running.”
You have to adjust a few settings on the front panel to get it to talk to the console, Witz acknowledges. “But
once you know what to do, it’s pretty simple. Then you just hit Record. That’s it; you don’t have to deal with
anything else until you’re done. You don’t have to get out cables and your converter, find a place to set your
computer so you can see the screen, make sure you have power, and boot up the computer.”
Once up and running, Witz notes, “it automatically tracks the inputs from the MADI rack. You can set up the
little metering section on the front so that it’s easy to see that you have input on everything. You can even see
that you have live mics without looking at the board. It has a caddy with a hot swappable SSD drive, so if you
fill a drive, you swap it out and keep going.” When finished recording, Witz connects the DA-6400’s USB 3 port to
a laptop and downloads the files. “It’s quick,” he asserts. “A two-hour show downloads in just a few minutes.”
When testing the Tascam DA-6400, Witz recorded a half-dozen bands in genres ranging from Irish folk music to
heavy rock. “The first thing I noticed is, the thing’s dead quiet,” he reports. “I’ve listened to DA-6400 tracks
in my home studio, and they’re as high quality as anything I’ve ever heard.”
For one high-profile Clair tour, Witz was preparing to mix some dates the regular engineer couldn’t make. “I
watched the show so I knew what was going on, recorded it on the DA-6400, brought the recorder back to the shop,
plugged it into a DiGiCo SD10, and used it to mix the tracks on the board,” he recollects. “It worked great for
that. How much easier could it be than a 1U rackspace recorder that does 64 tracks at 48 kHz? Another of our
engineers and I both gave the DA-6400 a thumbs up, and it’s now on Clair’s ’approved’ list.”
At Clair Global, multiple engineers are responsible for testing new equipment. Senior Director of Engineering
Howard Page assessed the Tascam SS-CDR250N two-channel networking CD/media recorder. “For worldwide concert tours,
we always need a reliable and easy-to-use way of archiving the shows to a medium-or multiple media-that is
instantly transferrable to many situations,” explains Page. “The SS-CDR250N unit fills that need perfectly. I use
the SS-CDR250N to record full archive recordings of all of my live shows.”
Previously, Page used Tascam CD-RW901 CD recorder/players. “My custom CueController program for Windows PC was
rewritten to take advantage of the complete RS232 remote-control capabilities of the CD-RW901,” he recalls.
“Artists and band members really appreciated the results, as they could get a CD disc of a show with not only the
venue and date of recording but also fully named and ID’d tracks.”
The SS-CDR250N enabled Page to take advantage of the latest advances in technology. “Bands and artists want a
more flexible format to instantly download into their computers,” he observes. “Like the CD-RW901, the SS-CDR250N
offers RS232 control, and it has exciting new features, like backup recording, the ability to upload files to a
server, and many more great features that make it ideal for our purposes. Initially the SS-CDR250N firmware was
not fully compatible with what the CD-RW901 was able to do but thanks to outstanding firmware development by the
technical guys at TASCAM in Japan, the SS-CDR250N now interfaces perfectly with my CueController control
software.”
Page’s show control software has too many elements to detail here. Suffice it to say that, used with the TASCAM
SS-CDR250N, the end result includes a full archive recording with all tracks ID’d, including song titles, where it
was recorded, and on what date. Page records simultaneously on both a USB memory stick and an SD card for an extra
level of security. Touring pressures have precluded him from using the SS-CDR250N’s FTP features to upload files
to a server, “but,” he states, “I am certainly excited to get to those functions in the future.”
While features and sound quality are crucial for Witz and Page, it’s imperative that gear holds up under the
stresses of touring. “The DA-6400 has been absolutely reliable,” states Witz. “The SS-CDR250N has performed
flawlessly so far,” Page adds. And that’s no fish story.
DA-6400 DA-6400 used at 34th Chaos Communication Congress
The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference between Christmas and New Year,
where interested and committed people meet to discuss computer security and social and technological developments.
The event is organised by the German Chaos Computer Club. The interest has been
international for a long time and attracted 15,000 participants to the Leipzig exhibition halls in December 2017.
Since 2005, a team from the Technical University of Ilmenau has been streaming the lectures at the congress for
many thousands of spectators. In the meantime, an independent team, the Video Operation Center (VOC), has grown
out of it in which pros and committed helpers volunteer to make many events freely available on the Internet
throughout the year. As the largest event of the VOC, the Congress always sets new quality standards and promotes
internal development. This year’s focus was on sound. For the first time, a separate mix was created for streaming
and recording and the entire production chain was switched to stereo.
At the 34th congress
(34C3) in December 2017, there were four lecture halls, each with over 12 hours of lectures per day. The almost
170 lectures were streamed live and then published on media.ccc.de. Volunteers
took over the live mixing of the lectures. In addition to the picture direction, each hall had its own audio
mixing console and a Tascam DA-6400 with Dante interface cards. The mixing consoles
were remotely controlled from a central audio control room. Remote control was chosen since no suitable space was
available to ensure insulation against ambient noise. This also made it possible to provide better support for
volunteers in the event of questions or problems. It was very important to easily secure a complete multi-track
recording of all presentations in order to be able to repair the mix for later publication in case of an error.
Since a Dante network was already available, the use of the DA-6400 with Dante interface cards was the logical
choice. By placing the recorders in the hall, the recording was independent of the network connection between the
halls and the central control room. To monitor the remaining recording time, the technicians used the network
control functions of the recorder. The remaining capacity of the SSDs was automatically queried at regular
intervals via Telnet and displayed with an existing monitoring tool.
Due to the short set-up time, the simple commissioning and uncomplicated operation was very helpful to the team.
The recordings could be started in no time at all. At the end all recordings were faultless and could be used
successfully for the quick repair of some lectures.
DR-70D Fritzsche uses the DR-70D with his Sony FS7 camera
Creative
producer Bruno Fritzsche from Stuttgart, Germany, has
successfully used the Tascam DR-70D for a commercial video production at “Green
Innovation and Investment Forum 2017” in Stuttgart. The DR-70D had been rigged to the camera and connected via a
wireless filmmaker kit to feed further recording equipment. Using this setup, it was easy to combine and
synchronise the high-resolution audio recording with the video in a later step.
Bruno Fritzsche is working as a creative producer and director since 2010 and has already received several awards
for his creative work.
DR-100MKII Mercedes with her DR-100MKII in an interview in Havana
A concert with Addys Mercedes is a journey
between moon and sun, yesterday and today, depth and ease. The great voice liberates the music of her homeland
from antiquated clichés of thick cigars, singing grandpas and ladies of easy virtue and takes us into a world of
exuberant cheerfulness and deep melancholy – here at the interview in Havana and at the beginning of the new year
on her Germany tour from 7 January to 17 June 2017.
DR-60DMKII Mare Nostrum use DR-60DMKII for scientific documentaries
"Only
few people have heard and talked about the sound that the heart of every volcano emits. In every single lava
stone and basalts we find on volcano summits and flanks there is a fragment of our history of Earth and
Mankind. We have to tell this in a different way to internet users who can participate on the web in our
initiative which is unique in its kind." -- VFF Marenostrum e. V.
A Tascam DR-60DMKII is currently being used to help create scientific documentaries of
active volcanoes. The VFF Research Institute Marenostrum e.V., registered in Austria, started their research
project in 2014 and decided to use a Tascam DR-60DMKII to archive the sounds of those volcanoes and publish
the results to the world. First recordings have been made at the Stromboli in Italy. The project is planned to be
completed by 2018.
Two US-16x08 interfaces have been introduced into the home studio of Masayuki
Muraishi, a leading drummer in Japan. His studio is used for pre-production and recording of artists he produces.
Mr. Muraishi also teaches drums in the studio and is working on a recording curriculum for his students. The
US-16x08s were introduced to meet a demand for drum recording in the studio.
US-16x08 US-16x08 Application Example: Hirotaka Mori Live Recording
Three Tascam US-16x08 were used together with Tascam X-48MKII and Tascam DR-44WL on the multitrack recording of
the “Masayuki Muraishi meets Hirotaka Mori ‘LIVE ON PLANET EARTH’” DVD, which features the
work of the widely popular singer-songwriter Hirotaka Mori.
On the day of the event, a monitor console was not
used, so the monitor console lines were directly connected to three US-16x08 used in mic-pre mode. The X-48MKII
had the IF-AN24X analogue expansion card installed, and its connection to the US-16x08 was made using three
XLR/D-Sub multi-conductor cables. In order to utilize all the inputs used on the stage, a 24-channel recording was
done.
The DR-44WL was used to record the ambient sound of the venue as a whole, and was placed at the front-of-house
mix position. A boom stand was installed in the PA booth, and the DR-44WL was remote-controlled via Wi-Fi with
level-monitoring active.
The post-recording mixing and mastering were both done using Sonar Platinum, using only the standard plug-ins and
functions of Sonar Platinum. The mix recall function of Sonar Platinum was used, and distinct mixing was done for
each song within this project. For effects, extensive use was made of the Sonar ProChannel effects features.
Note: Since this was a multi-angle DVD, the video data volume was large, and the audio was recorded in a
compressed state.
Equipment Used
TASCAM US-16x08
TASCAM X-48MK2
TASCAM DR-44WL
TEAC AV-P250LUV
SONAR Platinum Software
Recording Venue: SHIMOKITAZAWA GARDEN
About Hirotaka Mori
Born March 9, 1976, Hirotaka Mori is a singer songwriter originally from Kagoshima Prefecture. He made his major
debut with Warner Music Japan in October 2001. While there, he released six works – including the single
“Zero Chiten” and the album “Coexisting Concepts.” Subsequently, he shifted to indies,
releasing the album “planetblue” in 2009 and the album “Ii’n desu” in 2013. He is
also actively involved in producing, arranging, and distributing music under the name Coa.
Csaba Toth Bagi, Production Manager: “They work great! They are very practical
too. We’re recording all of the shows now with two lines and the two built-in mics!“
Dirk Schulz, Mando Diao FOH engineer: “As the band asked me for a live Autotune
effect, the TA-1VP was instantly my first choice to go for. The open and transparent sound is very convincing and
without a loss of quality comparing to the main vocal signal.“
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On the day of the event, a monitor console was not
used, so the monitor console lines were directly connected to three US-16x08 used in mic-pre mode. The X-48MKII
had the IF-AN24X analogue expansion card installed, and its connection to the US-16x08 was made using three
XLR/D-Sub multi-conductor cables. In order to utilize all the inputs used on the stage, a 24-channel recording was
done.
Equipment Used
