Hi-definition audio products for broadcast

The Harman Professional Group, designs, manufactures and delivers a wide range of premium audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets supported by 15 leading brands including AKG, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon and Mark Levinson. Harman has a range of broadcast solutions like audio consoles from Studer and Soundcraft; studio and control room speakers from JBL; power amplifiers from Crown; signal processors from dbx and Lexicon; and microphones from AKG, all provide the sound quality and 24/7/365 reliability demanded and is widely used worldwide and specifically in India, among radio stations, broadcasters, television channels.

Most popular among the range of products for brand is the Studer digital console. Radio and television stations and networks around the world choose Studer digital audio consoles for their exquisite Swiss craftsmanship, legendary sound quality and breakthrough operator-interface designs. Every Studer console is configured and built to each broadcast facility's specific requirements. Here are some of the products best suited for the Indian broadcast industry.

Lexicon PCM96SUR-A

Lexicon measures its success by the simple fact that they are the world-wide choice in digital processing by sound engineers, producers at the broadcast stations. Their uncompromised integrity has proven to be extremely successful over the years. It was considered the first commercially viable digital reverb system. Harman continues to forge strategic partnerships that will ensure that our systems are always compatible with our customers' needs. Lexicon Pro's PCM96 surround (analog) offers upgraded version, feature packed product with increase in number of presets and configuration options and inputs and outputs than their PCM96.

Its predecessor, the PCM96 surround gives you industry standard reverbs and effects with tremendous flexibility. Use the PCM96 surround as a plug-in with your DAW, or keep it connected to your mixing board.  Either way, you have a multitude of configuration options to choose from, without having to move any cables.

With two channels XLR analog and two channels XLR AES/EBU digital I/O, along with MIDI, Ethernet and firewire connectivity, the PCM96 easily fits into a variety of applications from broadcast to recording to live sound environments. In any application, the PCM96 delivers the versatility and sound that is unmistakably Lexicon. The PCM96 gives new capabilities to Lexicon's traditional reverbs by adding multimode filters at several spots in the audio flow.

Studer On Air 3000

Indian radio industry is at a growth stage and Harman's brand Studer On Air 3000, further extends Studer's range of digital broadcast consoles to this growing industry, with a completely new design aimed at the medium to upper segment of the radio market including private and public network broadcast stations.

The standard operating concept for a Studer console has ease of professional use and the functionality of the On Air 3000 will be totally familiar to Studer users, as the wide range of compact and elegant control surface modules incorporates the same patented Touch-n-Action philosophy as the highly successful Studer On Air 2000, using colour GUI(Graphical User Interface) screens.

The On Air 3000 design is based on a completely modular desk and a new DSP engine. Unique features include, the fader module six fader strips, and up to eight fader modules may be fitted, giving a maximum console size of 48 faders. The console has three main stereo mix buses plus an audition facility, four stereo AUX buses, 16 mix-minus sends configurable as AUXes, and three independent studio monitoring circuits and offers full dynamics, EQ and input/output routing in each channel.

Studer is used by BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), the largest broadcasting organization in the world; Rede Globo of Brazil, the largest television network in Latin America and the third largest network in the world; the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the national broadcaster for Denmark; TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation), the national public broadcaster for Turkey; ERTU (Egyptian Radio and Television Union), which runs the internationally-recognised television station Nile TV and is also gaining traction among Indian broadcasters.

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