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6 September 2011, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Leo Laporte (www.leoville.com,
http://live.twit.tv), host of Premiere
Radio Networks’ nationally syndicated radio talk show “The Tech Guy”, is
now live from new studios (dubbed “The Brick TWiT House”), expanding his
AoIP network with a new Axia Radius IP console.
Telos Alliance Executive Director of Sales & Marketing, Kirk Harnack,
who also hosts TWiT.tv’s “This Week in Radio Tech” show (www.thisweekinradiotech.com),
was on hand to help christen the new Radius console.
“TWiT.tv started broadcasting from a little old house they called the
“TWiT Cottage”, where Leo installed an 18-fader Axia Element console
back in 2009,” explains Harnack. “Leo became such a fan that when they
moved to a much larger building, he didn’t just take his Element with
him — he took the opportunity to expand his Axia network with a new
Radius console for his personal studio. It’s no surprise; after all,
he’s The Tech Guy!”
Harnack demurs when asked if he installed the new console himself. “I
just assisted with some final configuration. TWiT's engineer, John
Slanina, did 99% of the installation. He just read the Radius manual and
had it up and running well before I got there.”
TWiT’s new Radius console is located in Leo Laporte's office and
personal studio. Since Axia’s Integrated Console Engines have
broadcast-quality Ethernet switches built in, the Radius connects with
TWiT’s Element and PowerStation, and all the audio resources on their
Livewire network, via a single CAT6 cable. This connection allows Leo to
do shows from his office, while using other audio resources from the
main TWiT production areas.
The new Radius is used to produce “The Tech Guy” (carried on 165
stations on the Premiere Radio Network), plus Leo’s “Security Now” and
“Windows Weekly” netcasts.
Introduced at the 2011 NAB Convention in Las Vegas, The Axia Radius
console is a stereo, four-bus, 8-fader mixer with a QOR.16 console
engine. Local audio I/O features 2 Mic inputs, 8 analog ins and 4 analog
outs with 24-bit, 256x oversampling A/D converters, 1 AES/EBU input and
output, 4 GPIO logic ports, 6 Livewire ports, and 2 Gigabit Ethernet
ports for connection to other studios.
Radius carries a US list price of $5,990.
Axia radio consoles are a hit, with installations in over 2,000
studios worldwide. Axia allows broadcasters to quickly and easily build
audio networks using 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 channels
(plus machine logic and PAD) over a single CAT-6 cable, eliminating much
of the cost normally associated with wiring labor and infrastructure.
For more information about Radius, visit
www.AxiaAudio.com/radius/ or 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 2.0 modular console for
on-air, commercial production, audio workstations and personal studios,
Axia products include the PowerStation integrated console engine,
intercom systems, digital audio routers, DSP mixers and processors, and
software for configuring, managing and interfacing networked audio
systems.
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