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11 June 2009, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Every year, the peaceful town of Manchester, Tennessee becomes the
staging ground for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (www.bonnaroo.com),
a four-day, multi-stage music festival that brings together fans of an
eclectic mix of rock, jazz, Americana and other musical styles. The
100-acre event attracts thousands each year, and is also broadcast on a
network of radio affiliates — and for the third year in a row, those
broadcasts will be powered by an Axia IP-Audio Network.
From June 11th through 14th, a network of more than 30 radio stations
known as the Bonnaroo Radio Network (which includes
stations such as KSWD, WXRT, WFUV, WCNR, and DAVE FM/Atlanta) will air
118 hours of music from the festival, which originates under the
watchful eye of Tom Hansen, owner of PE-Audio, LLC and Director of
Technology of Nashville’s WRLT-FM.
Tom is very familiar with Axia, having installed a Livewire network
at WRLT in 2006. Since he’s also the contract operations manager for
Bonnaroo, he also immediately began thinking how a IP-Audio might speed
construction of the on-site temporary studio complex called the
Backstage Radio Compound. In 2007, after careful planning and
consideration, Tom deployed an Axia network on-site at Bonnaroo which
included Element broadcast consoles, multitudes of Axia Audio Nodes, and
Livewire-connected Telos Zephyr audio codecs.
Choice of equipment is always important, and the use of Axia adds to
the ambience in the Radio Compound. According to Hansen, “Most of the
DJs doing live shows are being sent halfway across the country to report
on cool bands and artists they have never seen before, or want to cover
just because it may be the coolest performance on earth this year. And
Axia is definitely cool.” The broadcast compound typically contains 6
radio studios, two to three production areas and a TOC.
The Axia IP-Audio system allows broadcasters to build audio networks
of any size using standard switched Ethernet to connect a few rooms, or
an entire facility. Axia networks have a total system capacity of more
than 10,000 audio streams, and can carry hundreds of digital stereo (or
nearly a hundred surround) channels over a single CAT-6 cable,
eliminating much of the cost normally associated with wiring labor and
infrastructure. Over 1,500 Axia studios are already on-air around the
world.
For more information, please contact Clark Novak at Axia Audio by
email at cnovak@AxiaAudio.com , or by phone at +1-216-241-7225.
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Axia, a Telos company, builds Ethernet-based professional IP-Audio
products for broadcast, sound-reinforcement and commercial audio
applications. Along with the popular Element modular console for on-air,
commercial production, audio workstations and personal studios, Axia
products include digital audio routers, DSP mixers and processors, and
software for configuring, managing and interfacing networked audio
systems.
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