WHEAT NEWS MAY 2025

You’ll see Wheatstone in studios everywhere, but you know where you won’t see Wheat? On the slow boat from… anywhere. All our consoles, all our processors, and every single one of our I/O Blades are proudly built in our factory in North Carolina, using parts we’ve had in stock long before container ships got expensive ...

Networking doesn’t get much better than at Lagardère Radio in France. Virtually the entire radio operation is interconnected by WheatNet IP consoles, virtual interfaces, and AoIP, with programming distributed via virtualized µMPX into towerCast antenna sites throughout France ...

Streaming codecs add yet another curveball to audio details—like crowd ambience and the whack of a bat—that are critical to the sports experience. Here are a few hard and fast rules for streaming sporting events ...

Shown here is Chris Verdi, CBNT, CBNE, and CTO for Great Eastern Radio, standing in front of a rack with a new LiON FM/HD audio processor ...

Did you know you can screen, answer, and route calls to air directly from your WheatNet IP console or virtual interface? No separate telephone hybrid/codec setup is needed. Here, Philippe Halin with NeoGroupe demonstrates the NeoSIP phone system integrated into the LXE console with VoIP-to-PSTN on the telco side and WheatNet IP audio network on the studio side ...

It doesn’t get more plug-and-play than an Audioarts console for smaller installations, voice booths, newsrooms, or when you simply need to replace an existing console. No menus, no boot-ups, no latency, no Ethernet switches. The nice thing about these consoles is that you don’t have to be locked into an all-analog or all-AoIP studio. You can run a hybrid studio with a few I/O Blades here and there—and still keep the simplicity of analog where you want it. If you’re shopping for a new analog console, we happen to know where you can get a great deal on an Air 4 console. Contact our friends at BSW (call 800-426-8434) and ask about their Audioarts Air 4 special ...

Summer is coming, and you know what that means, right? Nothing kills electronic components faster than heat. For every 18° F above 70° F, it’s estimated that long-term electronic reliability is reduced by half.  ...

FM Band from 30,000 Feet in the Air A radio show on radio Lossless streaming goes pro ...