The Radio Nene Valley Studio complex is now about twenty years
old. In the complex we have two control studios (that means they
have mixing desks), one interview studio as well as our
reception, record library and rack room.
The page gives you the chance to go on a virtual tour of our
studio complex. Below is a plan of our studios.
Click on the button next to the room you would like to view.
Once the view of the room is complete click the arrow to return
to the plan.
We equip our studios with professional audio equipment as we've
found that domestic equipment does not stand up to the constant use
in our studios . The Studio's are maintained by our Technical
officer and anybody he can commandeer to help.
Our current desks are about five years old, so
don't require that much maintenance. We would expect the current
desks to last at least another 5 years. The last upgrade to
our studios was when we converted them from NAB cartridge players
(sometimes known as jingle machines) to mini disc players for
playing station jingles.
All studios are equipped to play many different music formats with
CD players, Mini Disc players, Cassette and record turntables,
although our record turntables are seeing less use these days.
Each Studio also provides a computer for the presenter, this
provides access to our record library, news and weather updates and
access to music charts going back to the 1960's. The computers also
display Patient requests that may have been made via our website at
www.radionenevalley.co.uk.
For Details of all our programmes
check out Smile Magazine
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Our Studio complex has two
broadcast Studios.
Both Studios are equipped
with
Sonifex mixing desks.
Jingles or Station indents
in the
past were played using Cart machines. Now they are played from our Mini
Disk Players
All three studios are
linked to an
central on Air & microphone status
and control system.
The studio outputs are
routed to our distribution rack room where the output goes through a sound
processor
The distribution rack also
allows us to
change the audio routing.
When our studios are
off-air the
play-out Computer takes over and
allows us to provide entertainment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year.