“The whole facility was designed around this model,” he added. It’s all done live on an LX-24 IP control surface, which routes sources and logic controls for mics and other elements through WheatNet-IP audio networking. Our DJs select the music,” said Alls, explaining that they can drag-and-drop a song from the music library one minute and the next, play a file from their laptop or bring in a live mix from one of the performance studios. Since then, the noncom has accumulated a million YouTube subscribers and has established itself as an important part of the indie music scene known for discovering artists.Īs if all that isn’t enough, KEXP-FM’s DJs broadcast live, 24/7 – another interesting thing you can still do with radio. KEXP-FM moved into its new digs in Seattle’s hip lower Queen Anne neighborhood in December of 2015, and continued capturing multiple live performances a week and uploading the videos to YouTube – a program started years ago.
“If you would have told me we would be doing 500 live performances and video productions a year I wouldn’t have believed it,” said Alls, who spent the better part of five years planning new studios that included, among other things, two live performance stages with full video production suite. Take the list that was handed to KEXP-FM CE Jamie Alls not long ago. We’ve talked to enough engineers over the years to know that every well-intentioned GM and PD has one, and on it are some rather extreme requests that seem to be getting, well, more and more interesting. Radio World Article "Wheatstone Plans PR&E’s Future" Feb 21Īh yes, the dreaded list of interesting things to do with a radio station. Radio World Article "Wheatstone Acquires PR&E From GatesAir" Feb 17
Wheatstone previously acquired Auditronics in March of 1999 and Audion Labs in October of 2015, and currently manufactures a complete line of broadcast studio products that includes Audioarts Engineering and VoxPro brand names, as well as Wheatstone IP audio networking, control surfaces, talent stations, audio processing for FM, AM and streaming, software applications, and other products developed and designed specifically for broadcast. Our intention is to not only restore the PR&E brand, but to grow it and give existing as well as new customers the mobility to easily transition to IP networking,” says Wheatstone CEO Gary Snow. They were considered the Mercedes Benz of consoles at one time, and today, the name PR&E still stands for quality. “We have a respect for the PR&E brand that goes way back. PR&E is a distinguished console manufacturer dating back to the 1970s with more than $80 million in products and services sold globally. The purchase includes audio consoles, the networking system, the furniture lines, all designs, trademarks, engineering files and tooling, effectively restoring the PR&E console brand under the Wheatstone umbrella. New Bern, NC Febru– Wheatstone Corporation has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Pacific Research & Engineering (PR&E) from GatesAir of Quincy, Illinois (formerly Harris Broadcast) for an undisclosed amount.