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Wohler Technologies is to serve as a distributor and reseller for SoundField, carrying the UK company's full product line - including the DSF-2 broadcast microphone system and the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 converter - in all North, Central and South American countries with the exception of Colombia. Read more...
UK live recording specialists and CD label Chorum Records, run by recording engineer and producer Steve Swinden, used the DSF-1 digital microphone system to record a recent choral concert at Hereford Cathedral in the West of England for release on CD. Read more...
Harvard University's Media Production Centre has added a SoundField Mark V microphone to its existing inventory, which already includes a SoundField SPS422B mic and an SP451 surround sound processor. Read more...
SoundField has announced its new ST450 Mic System. The portable, battery-powered ST450 is aimed at location recording film and TV sound specialists everywhere, and builds on the success of SoundField's previous ST250 and ST350 portable microphones. Read more...
South African Pay-TV channel Super Sport has installed another SoundField DSF-2/DSF-3 surround-capable digital microphone system in its latest high-definition outside broadcast vehicle, constructed by Sony Broadcast Professional in the UK. Read more...
Nashville-based producer Mark Hornsby tested a SoundField SPS200 microphone on a recent orchestral session at Abbey Road Studios, London, and has used it and its associated Surround Zone plug-in to mix the audio from the sessions. Read more...
Telegenic, the independent UK outside broadcast services company, has installed a digital SoundField microphone and upmix processor in its new 3D OB vehicle. The 3D truck has been generating live coverage in 3D for BSkyB. Read more...
The UPM-1 plug-in is a software version of the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processor. Whilst the hardware UPM-1 is ideally suited to live broadcast applications, the new plug-in version is designed for post-production workflows. Read more...
SoundField's UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 processor provided invaluable live upmixing assistance to a team of Dolby sound consultants at the recent world premiere of Disney's summer blockbuster Prince Of Persia, held in London. Read more...
Two products previewed by SoundField at this year's IBC exhibition in Amsterdam complement one another, creating a complete 'set and forget' downmix and upmix audio workflow for high-definition 5.1 surround sound broadcasters. Read more...
Within weeks of the digital SoundField mic arriving at the Terry Tew HQ, the system was in such demand that Managing Director Tew has now purchased a second complete DSF-2/DSF-3 rig and a UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processor as well. Read more...
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson has purchased a SoundField ST350 Portable Mic System for location recording. His first project with the ST350 is in Antarctica recording David Attenborough's next BBC series, The Frozen Planet. Read more...
Belgian Film Sound Engineer Philippe Vandendriessche has invested in a SoundField ST350 portable microphone for use on location. Vandendriessche was nominated in 2008 for a Cesar film award for Best Sound. Read more...
A SoundField SPS200 Software Controlled Microphone, supplied by German SoundField distributor SEA, has been used to capture audio for a unique sound installation at a Zurich cultural museum. NONAM, Switzerland's North American Native Museum. Read more...
WDR needed to broadcast 'Sportschau' with a 5.1 surround soundtrack. After an intense period of testing ways of upmixing stereo to surround, WDR turned to SoundField and acquired the UPM-1 Stereo-to-5.1 processor. Read more...
SoundField has supplied further copies of the SPS200 Surround Zone software to Plymouth audio and music technology college Deep Blue Sound (DBS), where their SPS200 Mic has been proving popular with students since last autumn. Read more...
Satellite broadcaster Sky recently transmitted live for the first time a series of television plays in HD, with a 5.1 surround soundtrack. Helping to create the 5.1 ambience during transmission of the Sky Arts channel series was the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processor. Read more...
The ST350 Portable Microphone System has recently been used on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jnr. Exterior filming began in early 2009 with 2nd Unit sound recordings being overseen by freelance Sound Mixer John Casali. Read more...
The SPS200 Zephyx Kit includes a specially manufactured version of SoundField's existing SPS200 microphone with a shorter body, known as the SPS200-SB (Short Body), which comes as standard fitted into the supplied Zephyx suspension mount. Read more...
European satellite broadcaster BSkyB, better known as Sky, has purchased eight of SoundField's stereo-to-5.1 upmix processors for live use in their studios and outside broadcast facilities. Read more...
SoundField has begun shipping its latest product, the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 converter. Aimed at the broadcast market, the UPM-1 is a 19-inch rack processor designed to create 5.1 surround from old programme material which only has a stereo soundtrack. Read more...
The ST350 was used to capture 5.1 location ambience during production of Baz Luhrmann's cinematic epic 'Australia', starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, and featured in one of Apple's 'Set To Screen' series of short video clips about film production. Read more...
Event audio consultants Video Sound Services Limited (VSSL) have invested in SoundField's DSF-2 and DSF-3 digital microphone and 5.1 digital surround-sound processor recently used for ITV's X-Factor and Harry Hill's TV Burp. Read more...
HD outside broadcast specialists Bow Tie Television have installed a SoundField DSF-2 and DSF-3 digital 5.1 microphone system in their second outside broadcast unit, OB2, recently rebuilt to handle 5.1 audio with the cooperation of satellite broadcaster Sky. Read more...
Composer and Professor David Monacchi used the ST350 for recording in the Central African Dzanga-Sangha rainforest as part of an international project "Fragments of Extinction - Portraits of Acoustic Biodiversity from World's Primary Equatorial Rainforests." Read more...
NEP Visions, one of Europe's largest independent OB facilities companies, has been putting the DSF-2 digital microphone through its paces over the past year and a half, using it for 5.1 ambience on its HD transmissions for a variety of high-profile work. Read more...
