The Danish Broadcasting Corporation chooses Digital Audio Denmark Converters for Classical music recording

Press release, December 2004.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) has installed ten ADDA 2408 and two Axion AD/DA converters for classical recording in the DR Concert hall of Copenhagen. The installation is made as both a permanent set-up in the Studio 1, and as a portable recoding set-up for on-location recording of Classical Music out side the Concert hall.

ADDA 2408 has been chosen by DR because of the High performance digital microphone pre-amplifier and AD/DA converter, which were needed for the application, and indeed because of the superior sound quality, and transparent AD conversion, giving a very transparent an un-coloured presentation of the classical music instruments.

The converters are build in-to two flight cases, each with 4 ADDA 2408 giving 32 AD/DA I/O's for a total of 64 channels. The converters interfaces to a Pyramix DAW from Merging Technologies installed with 4 Mykerinos DSP cards and the new 5.0 software, enabling the recording of up-to 56 tracks at 96 kHz sampling, as well as 5.1 surround mastering in DSD for Super Audio CD, and 96 kHz for DVD-A.

The Axion converters are used for monitoring, and provide analog I/O for Mastering and mixing in the Concert Hall studio 1, and studio 2. Axion is compatible with the new DSD and DXD formats, which are used when preparing the final mix for Super Audio CD productions.