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This is taken from a live broadcast and performance by Lasgo (a Belgian Eurotrance band). Unfortunately some of the pics are from the station webcam so not best quality but they give the general idea.
I’ve picked NL radio studios as our British ones are quite frankly no way as good…
this is the main presenter Barry at the DJ’s desk
Jelle (their current vocalist) being interviewed. Behind her is a soundproofed studio for live music broadcast (the rest of Lasgo are setting up their kit in there and later on Jelle also sings from inside it). this did get included more for other reasons than sound equipment 😉
Froukje (the female presenter) and one of Lasgo being interviewed. Throughout this studio they have combined mic stand and monitor VESA mount, probably custom built. This position is used for reading news as well hence all the monitors. Some are for computers linked to Internet, others display local messages for the radio station.
Another webcam view, where you can see the main presenters desk and the interviewers position. Barry has interesting taste in shoes for a bloke, but maybe thats what Dutch guys normally wear these days.
you might now wonder – what if there is a DJ mixing? he or she would go in the studio for the music performance. If there isn’t another presenter or producer, often this is rigged so the TX desk can be remotely controlled from there, though I think Armin and Tiësto probably do their shows recorded or from their home studios anyway.
The mixers tend to come from local companies (NL’s tradition in offshore and community radio creates a big market) but the rest of the audio kit is Japanese, Chinese and Korean. They like LG and Samsung monitors as these are good picture quality and well shielded against causing interference (also I’ve heard that LG, Samsung and Philips share the same factory anyway).
What is also important here is layout/ergonomics. There is enough space for everyone, and all the equipment. Native Dutch people are often tall, so they need space, but NL is multicultural and also has folk from East Asia who are shorter, so the studio has to be sized for everyone.
Further, the decor/colours and light levels are carefully balanced. The music studio has strong light levels because there will be someone often bringing their own kit in and trying to connect it to the main studio – and everyone gets stagefright, even professionals. But in the main studio, too much light is a annoyance/distraction, but light dimmers create electric interference.
take note: as I wrote this message, it was very hard, to not completely in Dunglish type :laugh_at:
Another (half) of a mixer from another Dutch station. In this one its a split console (much more common here in the UK), the middle bit is used for presenters to put stuff like written notes and clipboards on (or they otherwise can get dropped onto the faders/computer keyboards with unwanted results).
there is a warning note on the monitor to presenters – not to cane the sound levels but against overuse of outbound SMS-messages, as they are being charged a staggering €0.35 for each one (no wonder Agentschap Telecom allows all them community stations, they must get the taxes back from other telecoms services)
I’ve had a quick look at a Alice broadcast catalogue (British manufacturers of these, based just outside London near where Tank Girl is) and they have a similar but not quite identical mixer, but probably got the idea from Europe.
In de studio bij… Daniël Lippens [foto’s SLAM!FM] | Radioactive
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