Audio tester provides the right mix for Calrec

Prism Sound's compact dScope Series III audio test and measurement tool is proving so invaluable to UK console manufacturer Calrec Audio that the company has now bought its sixth unit.

Since launching its first analogue broadcast mixing console onto the market in 1971, Calrec Audio has developed a strong reputation for the audio and build quality of its products.

Among the company's many milestones was the launch of the world's first commercially available digitally controlled assignable mixing console, which was supplied to BBC Radio OBs in 1981.

Calrec Audio was one of the Prism Sound's first dScope customers, and over the years the two companies have conducted an ongoing dialogue about software development for the unit.

The dScope is ideal for the high precision generation and analysis of analogue and digital audio and delivers the functionality and precision needed for testing the latest audio technology.

Andrew Timme, Calrec's Production Engineering Manager, says: "We decided to invest in our sixth dScope because we needed another unit to help with our expanding workload".

"We use dScope to test analogue and digital audio cards and system racks for Calrec's digital products".

"We also use it for development testing in our R and D areas".

Timme adds that Calrec has continued to invest in dScope because it is compact, robust, reliable and offers good value for money.

"The dScope is a good general purpose PC controlled audio test set that allows us to test our digital products the way we want to", he says.

"From our first dealings with the company, Prism Sound have always been willing to make their software do what we want it to do, which isn't something that other test and measurement manufacturers have been prepared to do".

Launched in 2002, Prism Sound's dScope is suitable for a wide range of digital and analogue audio applications and is used in many market sectors including broadcast, multimedia, CD, DVD, computer audio, transducer, digital telephony and communications.

It is comprehensive and accurate for R and D, portable and intuitive for maintenance and field service, and fast, automatic and IT-friendly for the production line.

As well as covering the traditional audio test functions, dScope incorporates the important new features needed to work with the latest audio technologies.

These include digital interface test tools such as carrier waveform and eye-pattern display, jitter measurement and AES3/IEC60958 channel status generation and analysis as well as support for higher sampling rates.

dScope has a uniquely simple, state-of-the-art synchronous multitone capability, which can measure dozens of parameters simultaneously.

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