From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: In Colombia, the Cadena Melodía radio network has selected DHD audio consoles for its main studios in Bogotá.
The project was completed by the Bogotá-based integrator Aspa Andina and is part of the digitization of the network’s facilities using SX2 production consoles.
Aspa Andina said that the upgrade of the network’s studios in the glass building on Bogotá’s 45th Street “sets a benchmark” as the first station in Colombia to digitize through an SX2 control surface.
The SX2 allows the interconnection of studios via Cat-6 Ethernet cabling. The control surfaces on the SX2 consoles can perform audio routing from assigned outputs, which includes booth monitoring, audio codec returns and hybrid output, DHD said.
The upper section of each SX2 modular control surface features a 10-inch touchscreen. The surface is also equipped with motorized faders, which allow for the implementation of a virtual microphone mixer on a second layer. Through DHD’s Automix tool, studio microphones can be routed to any of the 16 available program buses.
The SX2 also supports headphone jacks with independent level control. In Cadena Melodía’s case, this allows return audio to be sent to each announcer, including specific talkback or commands from its control room when needed, DHD said.
Cadena Melodía was founded in 1967 following the merger of Radio Industrial and Melodía FM Estéreo. It broadcasts under the callsign HJCU on 730 AM in Bogotá.
The Cadena Melodía network expanded in the 1980s, adding stations in Bucaramanga, Cúcuta, Cartagena de Indias, Barranquilla, Cali and Pasto.
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