TRT upgrades its Izmir Radio Studios

Published: January 23, 2013 MEA

TURKEY: Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has recently upgraded its Izmir Radio Studios with a Studer Vista 9 digital console. The Vista 9 was purchased from Turkish Studer distributor SF Dis Ticaret Koll.Sti.

‘I have been working at TRT for more than 25 years in a number of capacities, and all that time we have depended on Studer gear to get the job done,’ said Erkan Gökceli, technical manager and designer at Izmir Radio Studios. ‘We’ve used everything from the old Studer 169 mixer to no less than 15 ReVox B77 reel to reel tape decks. As a broadcast and recording mixer at Izmir Radio Studios I put our previous Studer 902 console through every situation you can imagine but when it was time to upgrade our studios, we decided that we would move to a digital mixer with modern features and flexibility.’

In addition to the new mixer, Izmir Radio bought a host of additional Harman Professional components including AKG mics and headsets, dbx equalisers, Crown amplifiers, a Lexicon reverb unit, JBL studio monitors and Soundcraft mixers.

‘As someone who works with the equipment year-in and year-out, I insist that the consoles I use are robust and of high quality,’ Mr Gökceli noted. ‘We do a lot of live broadcast at Izmir Radio and TRT and as any live engineer knows there is no room for error in a live production situation. Based on our previous track record, I was confident the Studer Vista 9 would be completely dependable.

‘As expected, so far the operation of the Vista 9 has been flawless,’ continued Mr Gökceli. ‘I’m also finding that the newer features of the Vista 9, such as the Vistonics touchscreen interface, the FaderGlow faders that can be colour-coded by function and the total freedom to lay out input and master channels anywhere across the console’s surface have been incredibly useful. I can configure the Vista 9 any way I want it which gives me far more control flexibility than I’ve ever had and makes mixing a live or taped broadcast easier and more efficient than I could have imagined.’