The arrival of the CD / AES3/EBU format in the 1980's was a pivotal point for the industry, not least because it became a standard across all areas of audio, but also because it is alive and well in the 21st century. During the lifespan of the AES3 format we have seen the [ read more ]
BCD Audio is a UK manufacturing and design company specialising in audio products for the global broadcast and professionalmarket. Mike Law is company managing director and also head of design. He is a member of the IET and the AES. He presents here several case studies to illustrate how the company has been able [ read more ]
BCD Audio launches new web shop with new products UK designer and manufacturer of broadcast and professional audio products, BCD Audio, has launched new products coinciding with the opening of their new web shop. BCD Audio managing director Mike Law said ”We were asked to create these products for the television studios at [ read more ]
The BCD Installer System. The BCD Audio Installer system enables many audio interface units to be packaged into a compact space. The 1U Installer-12 will take up to four Eurocards with single or dual mains power supply, and the Installer-48 will take up to 16 Eurocards with dual power supply. Based on a [ read more ]
The BCD Audio Rack Mount Range. The BCD Audio Rack mount range fits between the Black-Box and Eurocard range of products. The units have been designed to fulfil specific applications, not often found elsewhere. BCD specialise in designing products to fit the exacting requirements of our customers, so are always happy to expand [ read more ]
I have described here the way this is done. Cable types Broadcast audio wiring has evolved from the telephone industry, where multiple circuits are required , and the best approach has been to use balanced pair circuits, often bundled into multicores. Balanced pairs are used because the signal is then independent of the [ read more ]
The BCD Audio Black Box Range The BCD Audio Black-box range is an easy to use series of essential broadcast quality audio interface products and test units. DC powered 12-24V; ideal to use with low-cost power supplies and 12V buses. The units can free-stand, mount on brackets, or be supplied on 2U panels [ read more ]
It is now confirmed that BCD Audio will launch their new ALT-1D stand alone microphone amplifier at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam, and you can see it on the Canford stand 9-C01 in Hall 9. BCD has just completed four more DAVE video edit mixers for a very well known national UK broadcaster who [ read more ]
See the new BCD Audio ALT-1D on the Canford stand 9-C01 in Hall 9 at IBC2012, Amsterdam, 7th – 11th Sept. BCD Audio launches new ALT-1D mic amp at IBC2012 Mike Law of BCD Audio has announced a new version, ALT-1D, of his established and popular ALT-1 stand-alone microphone amplifier. The original ALT-1 [ read more ]
AES-3 is the standard for interconnection of stereo audio signals between studio equipment. The standard originated from the SPDIF format used in CD players in the 1980's , and has evolved to allow sample rates to 192KHz stereo, and to transport multichannel compressed audio at the 48Khz sample rate. AES3 is the standard [ read more ]
