Experienced Berkshire-based broadcast integrators, TSL, won a competitive tender to design and install a highly sophisticated broadcast system, with audio mixing based around two Studer Vista 5 32-fader production consoles with SCore Live and D21 I/O extension frames installed in the two identically-configured live studio control rooms and central technical area.
TSL has a long history of specifying Studer Vista consoles, and their audio applications manager, Martin Dyster, said that in this instance the desks were chosen for their compact form factor, the familiarity that QVC's newly-recruited sound engineers already had with the Studer topology - and the comfort the client was given in knowing that Studer's Italian distributors, Audio Pro Group (APG), were based a short distance away in the event of a fast response being required.
In the end the choice of console had come from QVC. "There was a strong feeling that they favoured Studer and we certainly had no problem with that as we have specified Studer many times in the past," said Dyster. "It was an easy and obvious decision to make as the Vista 5 fits the budget and delivers a lot of bang for the buck."
(Jim Evans)
