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FEATURES: COMPANY PROFILE (Above): The studio set-up (Left): Kim Bang outside the TC Electronic headquarters The DNA of TC Once the king of reverb, TC Electronic is now a campaigner for loudness control, but it hasn’t forgotten its roots, as Barney Jameson learns ‘IT’S ALWAYS THERE, IN EVERYTHING we do,’ says Kim Bang, PR and marketing manager for broadcast and production at TC Group. ‘It’s in our DNA now,’ he adds. Mr Bang is speaking to Pro Audio Asia at the headquarters of TC Electronic, But Mr Bang could just as easily be discussing digital reverb – that other technology for which TC has long been known. What loudness is to the company today, reverb was in the past. ‘We go way back in terms of digital reverb – we were frontrunners The Studio has been set-up to experiment with surround sound formats located in Aarhus, Denmark, and the topic of conversation is loudness. The subject has dominated conversation within broadcasting circles in recent years, while for TC Electronic itself it has become a core part of how the company thinks and acts. After all, TC was there right at the beginning, when the rst studies into perceived loudness were conducted at Canada’s McGill University. back in the 1980s,’ Mr Bang agrees. Yet as easy as it might be to assume that the company has moved on from one technology to another, the truth is different. When TC Electronic commits to an idea, it really commits, and its devotion to perfecting digital reverb is as vital today as it was 30 years ago. It proved as much this year when it released Reverb 8, a new hardware- 118 PRO AUDIO ASIA July–August 2014 ‘Reverb 8 is the only real high-end reverb on a hardware platform available today, and we want to let people know that we are still in the reverb business’ based platform promising in nite channel reverb and speci cally addressing multi-channel applications such as Barco Auro, Dolby Atmos and NHK’s 22.2 Super Hi-Vision standard. Crucially, the product (available exclusively through the System 6000 platform) ties together the manufacturer’s twin obsessions – offering a new way of approaching reverb within postproduction and broadcast environments, whilst addressing the loudness question at its most basic level. ‘Reverb 8 is the only real highend reverb on a hardware platform available today, and we want to let people know that we are still in the reverb business,’ explains Mr Bang. To prove the point, he and TC product development engineer Christian Frandsen invite Pro Audio Asia to attend a Reverb 8 demonstration within The Studio – a purpose-built room that acts, Mr Frandsen explains, as ‘a mixture of mixing studio, mastering studio a