Live Concert Applications of Antelope Audio Master Clocks

Posted on 03 julio, 2012 by Antelope Audio

by Robert Dugan, Sound Engineer

Antelope Audio 10M & Trinity Combo during a Live Event with Robert Dugan

I‘ve personally used Antelope Audio in the Live Sound domain. At first, I was skeptical of how much clocking could really change the sound, especially since I was using a digital console. But after the unpacking and setting up, it was all ready to go within five minutes and, if I would have known how I was going to react, I would have prepared a little better.

Upon hearing Deftones “Digital Bath,” it seemed like the PA had come alive after sleeping for years. The drums were lifelike and it sounded like I was listening to the Deftones right in the rehearsal room. Immediately, I thought that the clock couldn’t be doing all of this, so I unplugged the BNC from console to Trinity. The sound seemed to escape and it reminded me of listening to the song through iPod headphones – thin and one road.

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Some Words for Clocks or Why do we need precise clocking

Posted on 02 julio, 2012 by Antelope Audio

by Robert Dugan, Sound Engineer

56 inputs, all synced by Antelope Audio clocks

The Importance of Clocking

Like it or not, the digital age is coming in full force, making every audiophile worried about quality being lost. This is why it’s best to educate audiophiles and consumers about the importance of clocking. I’ll try and make this easy to understand and straight to the point. When an analog signal is about to be converted to a digital signal, it is represented by bits that are representations of the analog waveform. When two points that are represented are slightly off, they create jitter – which is digital distortion.

Clocking can play a very important role during this process. With all these signals digitized, it’s important that the timing and space between every ‘bit’ are exactly the same (in sync), so the audio source has no jitter. This is where Clocking comes into play by synching all the audio signals.

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Alan Meyerson sigue fiel a la sincronización con Antelope Audio

Posted on 11 junio, 2012 by Radoslav S.

Alan Meyerson, Music Scoring Mixer, Recordist and Producer

Santa Mónica, California, 11 de junio de 2012 – Como mezclador de composiciones musicales, grabador y productor desde principios de los 80, Alan Meyerson ha estado bien posicionado para observar la transición desde la producción y post-producción analógica a la digital en la industria cinematográfica. Con la proliferación de equipos de audio digitales en el estudio con el paso de los años, Meyerson ha recurrido a Antelope Audio para mantener la sincronización precisa del muestreo entre todos los dispositivos, instalando recientemente un reloj maestro universal de alta definición Isochrone Trinity.

Meyerson ha estado sincronizando con un modelo de Antelope Audio u otro desde que la empresa fuera creada en el 2005; él comenta: “Estoy muy familiarizado con lo que la sincronización hace al sonido, esa fue una de las razones por las que cambié a Antelope inicialmente. En el sistema que yo tenía, en cuanto coloqué el Antelope original, se notó una tremenda diferencia. La representación se volvió mucho más sólida. Fue una mejora instantánea”.

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New York City’s Masterdisk Counts on Antelope’s Trinity/10M Combination for its Image Stability and Sonic Integrity

Posted on 31 enero, 2012 by Radoslav S.

World Renowned Mastering Facility Has Also Installed Several Zodiac DACs at Listening Stations to Maximize its Quality Control

New York, January 30, 2012 — Masterdisk, one of New York City’s foremost mastering facilities, has installed several of Antelope Audio’s Isochrone Trinity Master Clock and 10M Rubidium Atomic Clock units in its mastering suites, to maintain stereo imaging and the overall sonic integrity of projects passing through its studios. Masterdisk is installing multiple Antelope Audio Zodiac D/A converters at listening stations throughout the facility for quality control purposes.

According to owner Scott Hull, Masterdisk’s mastering suites were constructed with very high quality acoustics and solid grounding, and were already well clocked —therefore they did not appear to be candidates for improvement. “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” he says. Yet, the Antelope 10M — which incorporates a reference generator that is 100,000 times more accurate than the quartz oscillators in most equipment — and the Trinity, which offers 64-bit DSP and up to 384 kHz audio streaming, have had a noticeable impact on performance clocking the digital audio converters in the rooms.

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