CEDAR cleans up the 47th Grammy Awards
In February 2005, the Staples Centre, Los Angeles, hosted the 47th Grammy Awards, arguably the most important and prestigious audio industry awards show of the year.
A huge installation provided the sound for the venue as well as for live broadcast and recording, and given the target audience - the cream of the pro-audio and music industries - the quality had to be the best it could possibly be.
To facilitiate this, Klaus Landsberg configured an array of forty microphones and ran the mixed sound through two CEDAR DNS1000s. Quoted in Audio Media magazine, Landsberg said, "They help me to get a lot of the slap out of the room. With an open room like this, you're hearing a lot more of the standing wave; the CEDAR does a good job of masking that."
The DNS1000 Dialogue Noise Suppressor reduces or eliminates background noise such as air conditioning, wind, rain and traffic rumble, and is often used to suppress reverberation. It does so with minimal effect on the wanted signal, and its near-zero latency means that engineers do not need to slip the audio against time-code, making it possible to use the DNS1000 in real-time on the dubbing stage. For location sound engineers (who do not have the luxury of random access to the material) the near-zero latency means that the DNS1000 is simple to use with video, and removes the need for a video frame store.
The combination of low latency and 24-bit fidelity means that you can leave the DNS1000 permanently in the signal chain without fear of signal degradation.
CEDAR produces a range of products based on its DNS technology. These include the DNS1000™, the fully automated DNS2000™ which runs in the Pro Tools™ environment, and the eight-channel DNS™ software hosted by the CEDAR Cambridge™ platform.
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