YOU’RE FIRED!
By Graeme Hague
13 June 2013
Studer is trying to put you out of a job with its Studer VistaMix . Studer VistaMix is a software upgrade for Studer’s range of Vista digital mixing consoles that offers to mimic the action of a human operator – a solution to the myriad of audio problems apparently encountered in houses of worship. VistaMix automatic microphone mixing removes the need for an operator to manually adjust all the faders all the time, leaving the microphones of talking participants open, while closing the microphones of silent participants in order to reduce spill and background noise. The secret is in increasing gain for ‘talking’ microphones and reducing gain for all others, but doing it all very quickly and keeping the amount of total gain constant, so a clean live mix can be created. Fiendishly clever, although we’ve met several human operators who’d claim to be able to do this. The new feature is available to all existing Vista systems with SCore Live DSP engines and the Vista 1. No additional hardware is required to the Vista surface, the new controls are fully implemented within the standard Vistonics screens and controls.
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