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WHEAT NEWS SEPTEMBER 2025

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WHEAT:NEWS September 2025, Volume 16, Number 10

WHEAT:NEWS September 2025, Volume 16, Number10

Rhodes Music

NOW, THIS IS VISUAL RADIO

Appealing to both the eye and the ear, Rhodes Music Radio (RMR 89.7 FM) went with vibrant yellow and red for its new on-air and production studios and added our IP 12 consoles with WheatNet IP audio networking between the two ...
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MIC PROCESSING, WE’VE HEARD IT ALL

Every day is open mic season at the station. You have presenters constantly goosing the mic processors to get that big voice, often at the expense of everything else. Double the fun if they’re setting the mic processor to the studio monitor instead of off-air. Even if what’s coming out the other end is halfway decent, you can be sure all that will change by the end of one announcer’s shift and into the start of the next. It’s not that you have to wait, either. Between shows, the music is running hotter than ever, which makes your jocks want to up the ante even more and, well, you know what a vicious cycle it is. We feel your pain. We spent a lot of time in the Wheat Processing Lab designing, testing, and retesting our mic/voice processors specifically for these scenarios and many others. Here are a couple of ways we’ve been able to mitigate these problems ...
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HARD CHOICES AND SOFT CONSOLES

Nearly every mixing console ever made has the same set of standard features that cover just about everything you could ever want to do in the studio today. But you know what they say, right? Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. It so happens that we can now create a lot of options for all those standard console features and even add a few new ones ...
Wheat News April 2025 Mix-Minus

DO TRY THIS AT HOME (SETTING UP BUS-MINUS)

Setting up confidence monitoring and mix-minus or bus-minus feeds for home studios can be as simple as setting bus-minus assigns. All of our IP consoles have bus-minus sends from the fader, and these provide an automatic mix-minus of program content minus the source, so in most cases it’s a simple matter of pairing faders to the codec. But if you have a smaller plant with a limited number of AoIP I/O units feeding a small console, you’ll want to know about a WheatNet IP feature called Associated Connections ...
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COMING TO IBC: NEW STREAMING APPLIANCE, NEW CONSOLE, NEW FM PROCESSOR!

We’re returning to the IBC show with a new console, a new streaming appliance, and a new FM audio processor ...
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MASTER CLASS SIGN UP NOW!

Studio Master Classes start September 24, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Eastern Time. We’ll be demonstrating live from the Wheatstone factory and covering everything from the fundamentals to recovery tactics in the event of a failure. Don’t miss it ...
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INTERESTING LINKS

VSF New Specs for RIST Broadcast Towers as GPS Backup Great Places to Scan the Dial ...
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