Electronics geek, phone phreak, whiteboard enthusiast, broadcasting nerd, amateur photographer, general troublemaker
OB links over 802.11n
So, after starting my job with “a well known british broadcaster” I’m still actively involved in my favourite community radio station in Canterbury, as part of the Technical Committee. As of late, apart from helping with the project to move the student newspaper InQuire into one of CSRs rooms, I’ve been looking into improving their [...]
OB to end all (my) OBs
Today marked the end of my time at the University of Kent, Information Services. After working in Campus Support for 8 months, and prior to that on the Support Desk for 3 years, I left at 1630 today. The moment I left, I was thrown straight into preparations for CSR’s Outside Broadcast of the two [...]
Timing is something
When you’re broadcasting, keeping to the clock is incredibly important. Coordinating programming between multiple studios, live feeds from external sources (syndicated live content, like news), and making sure your audience know what programming to expect are all important reasons for keeping the time straight. NTP is a protocol designed to synchronise time over a network, [...]
A Walk through a Broadcast Audio Processor
Recently, CSR FM have aquired a Soundweb London BLU-100 (which I’ve raved about in the previous post). Amongst the myriad of things which it can do, it can also do some quite complex signal processing. Currently, the CSR FM airchain goes from program output (via a switcher), to a DSPXmini FM processor – which processes [...]
I <3 Soundweb London
NOTE: This is most definitely not a tutorial, I’m mostly making it up as I go along. So, yeah – recently my radio station has acquired a rather lovely BSS Audio London Soundweb BLU-100. It’s a “sound management” device, which (on the main unit) has 12 inputs (6 stereo) and 8 outputs (4 stereo), as [...]