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Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson has purchased a SoundField ST350 Portable Mic System for location recording. His first project with the ST350 is in Antarctica recording David Attenborough's next BBC series, The Frozen Planet. Read more...
Belgian Film Sound Engineer Philippe Vandendriessche has invested in a SoundField ST350 portable microphone for use on location. Vandendriessche was nominated in 2008 for a Cesar film award for Best Sound. Read more...
Globo TV, Brazil, has become the first broadcaster in South America to invest in SoundField's digital surround microphone systems for HD broadcasting. The network has purchased a DSF-2/DSF-3 digital broadcast system. Read more...
A SoundField SPS200 Software Controlled Microphone, supplied by German SoundField distributor SEA, has been used to capture audio for a unique sound installation at a Zurich cultural museum. NONAM, Switzerland's North American Native Museum. Read more...
WDR needed to broadcast 'Sportschau' with a 5.1 surround soundtrack. After an intense period of testing ways of upmixing stereo to surround, WDR turned to SoundField and acquired the UPM-1 Stereo-to-5.1 processor. Read more...
SoundField has supplied further copies of the SPS200 Surround Zone software to Plymouth audio and music technology college Deep Blue Sound (DBS), where their SPS200 Mic has been proving popular with students since last autumn. Read more...
Satellite broadcaster Sky recently transmitted live for the first time a series of television plays in HD, with a 5.1 surround soundtrack. Helping to create the 5.1 ambience during transmission of the Sky Arts channel series was the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processor. Read more...
The ST350 Portable Microphone System has recently been used on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jnr. Exterior filming began in early 2009 with 2nd Unit sound recordings being overseen by freelance Sound Mixer John Casali. Read more...
The SPS200 Zephyx Kit includes a specially manufactured version of SoundField's existing SPS200 microphone with a shorter body, known as the SPS200-SB (Short Body), which comes as standard fitted into the supplied Zephyx suspension mount. Read more...
European satellite broadcaster BSkyB, better known as Sky, has purchased eight of SoundField's stereo-to-5.1 upmix processors for live use in their studios and outside broadcast facilities. Read more...
SoundField has begun shipping its latest product, the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 converter. Aimed at the broadcast market, the UPM-1 is a 19-inch rack processor designed to create 5.1 surround from old programme material which only has a stereo soundtrack. Read more...
The ST350 was used to capture 5.1 location ambience during production of Baz Luhrmann's cinematic epic 'Australia', starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, and featured in one of Apple's 'Set To Screen' series of short video clips about film production. Read more...
Event audio consultants Video Sound Services Limited (VSSL) have invested in SoundField's DSF-2 and DSF-3 digital microphone and 5.1 digital surround-sound processor recently used for ITV's X-Factor and Harry Hill's TV Burp. Read more...
HD outside broadcast specialists Bow Tie Television have installed a SoundField DSF-2 and DSF-3 digital 5.1 microphone system in their second outside broadcast unit, OB2, recently rebuilt to handle 5.1 audio with the cooperation of satellite broadcaster Sky. Read more...
Composer and Professor David Monacchi used the ST350 for recording in the Central African Dzanga-Sangha rainforest as part of an international project "Fragments of Extinction - Portraits of Acoustic Biodiversity from World's Primary Equatorial Rainforests." Read more...
NEP Visions, one of Europe's largest independent OB facilities companies, has been putting the DSF-2 digital microphone through its paces over the past year and a half, using it for 5.1 ambience on its HD transmissions for a variety of high-profile work. Read more...
