Absolute Radio (a multi award winning station) has recently bought several Deva Broadcast DB8000 silence detectors and media player equipment from Broadcast Warehouse. Absolute Radio wanted an all-in-one solution for silence detection and audio insertion. The Deva DB8000 offers easy FTP file and playlist uploads on to its internal 2GB storage. In addition to the usual automatic silence detection features, it also has built in DTMF control for remote source selection, as well as email alert notifications.
Stuart Edwards, Technology manager at Absolute Radio said "We chose the units because we wanted an all-in-one unit that was able to perform the silence detection and audio insertion on failure from a solid state player. The fact that the devices are network enabled was a real bonus; this made uploading of audio to the built in FTP server very easy and meant that we could get additional alerts for silence detection and control the functionality of the units remotely. We’ve found that the units work very well and give us all of the thresholds for level and timeout that we could ever need.”
