New equipment available from FX Rentals

FX Rentals, which offers Europe’s largest selection of audio rental equipment, has recently updated its extensive inventory with the acquisition of a wide range of new gear.
Among the new equipment for rental is the Dolby LM100 loudness meter, which is increasingly in demand with programme makers selling to the US market. The LM100 is used to accurately measure loudness variations between programs or television channels. By analysing loudness only during the presence of speech, this objectively measures what viewers subjectively experience and can give a form of benchmark test with results shown against timecode.
FX has also purchased some Neve 8816 summing amps.
“This is really a quality 16 channel mixer with solo, level and pan controls, aimed at people who want to sum their ProTools channels together outside the computer,” said FX technical manager Adam Pope. “We have two of these which can be linked together to provide 32 channels, and they provide total recall when connected to a computer via USB.”
A Grace Lunatec V3 high quality portable 2-channel mic preamp with high resolution digital outputs with Word clock output well as analogue outputs has also been added to the FX inventory. This can be run off a separate battery supply, also provided by FX. Functions include a decoding matrix for stereo recording and it can be used as a quality front-end for Digidesign’s Mbox production system.
Other new gear includes the new SSL X-rack with four preamp and four dynamics modules, the Dolby DP564 decoder which decodes all forms of Dolby Surround, and a quantity of ATI 8MX2 pre amp mixers which can be linked together. “These are highly suited to live recording, which is a rapidly expanding market for FX,” said Pope.
FX Rentals is part of the FX Group which also encompasses FX Sales, FX Repairs, FX Copyroom and FX Spain.
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