Two Studer Vista 8 Digital Desks Installed At BBC
Television Centre
September 26, 2007
Source: Studer
This summer,
two Studer Vista 8 digital audio consoles were installed at
BBC Television Centre in West London. BBC Studios, part of
BBC Resources Ltd, ordered the desks for Studio Six and Studio
Four following the positive response to the installation of
a 72-fader wraparound Vista 8 into BBC Studios' flagship Studio
One two years ago.
Studio Six was the first studio to go on-air
with its new Vista 8, having completed a console-only refit
in the impressively short timeframe of five days. By contrast,
in Studio Four, the Studer desk is being incorporated into
a new infrastructure. When the refurbishment of TC4 is finished,
the Vista 8 audio production format will be the most widely
used at BBC Television Centre.
In Studio Six, the console will be used
on a raft of production genres, from light entertainment and
comedy to sitcoms. The distinctive user-friendly ergonomics
of the Vista 8 have already proved to be very popular among
the independent production companies such as Talkback and
Angst Productions, which regularly use Studio Six.
The two Vista 8 consoles are very similar
in scale, featuring approximately 500 inputs in 72-fader and
62-fader wraparound layouts. The smaller of the two desks,
in Studio Six, is fully wired so it can be easily expanded
at a future date by the addition of more DSP.
Although the BBC Resources team evaluated
all the alternatives in the digital broadcast console market,
the Vista 8 was still judged to be head-and-shoulders above
the competition and offered other very significant advantages
to the broadcaster, such as the engineers'
existing familiarity with the operational design.
BBC Studios chose the Vista 8 following
a thorough evaluation and selection process. As Studer UK
Sales Manager Andrew Hills points out, "Working on a
Studer Vista 8, with its patented Vistonics(tm) interface,
is a different way of working; once engineers get to grips
with it, they love using it. With three Vista consoles at
Television Centre, it will be easier for BBC Studios to train
more engineers in the use of the format."
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