Rosendahl Nanosyncs Goes Prime Time

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA: Word clock synchronization has become crucial in today's fully digital production setups in order to lower jitter, noise, and distortion, and optimize imaging. To maintain digital signal integrity throughout the audio production and post-production processes, Rosendahl has introduced Nanosyncs, a universal synchronizable audio clock reference with multiple outputs and integrated video black and burst generator.
Stanley A. Smith, a composer, musician and producer with an extensive resume in record production and music for television and film, recently installed Rosendahl's Nanosyncs at his Standard Music Production facility in Universal City, California at the recommendation of several of his colleagues in the business. "My music editor and a lot of other people have been telling me that digital setups work only as well as the clock. They said, 'You'll hear the difference.' I went for it - and there is a difference."
Smith, a multi-instrumentalist who majored in percussion at California State University-Long Beach, was formerly a staff writer/producer at TBA Records, while in school at CSULB. There, he wrote and produced several contemporary jazz records for artists such as Paul Russo, Alvin Hayes and Frank Potenza. While also having toured with Jeffery Osborne, Cheryl Lynn, Caron Wheeler (Soul II Soul), and others, Stanley gradually shifted his focus from touring and record production and started on the path to the latest phase in his career - composing for film and television.
"It's nice to have everything stabilized on one good clock," continues Smith, "especially for film & TV. I do the 'Bernie Mac Show' and when I'm locking to picture, it's really important that all that stuff stays tight." The Nanosyncs unit has been perfect for the job, he adds. "I shouldn't have waited so long to get it!"
Nanosyncs not only reduces clock jitter to below measurable levels through its pure digital design, but it also reduces the complexity of the studio setup. Providing six separate word clock outputs - AES/EBU, SPDIF, plus four video - each configurable for sample rates from 44.1kHz to Digidesign Super Clock (256 Fs), the unit allows each digital audio device in the studio to receives a separate clock signal. With the digital audio interconnections no longer required as clock lines, each device in the studio can be patched freely.
Smith recently completed a new main title for FOX's primetime "Bernie Mac Show." "We mixed that here, and it turned out great - live horns and the whole deal," he enthuses. Having worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from original cables movies, network television and independent features, including "The Line" "Catfish in Black Bean Sauce" and "The Visit" the busy composer reports that he also recently completed his first major studio feature, "Ride Or Die" starring Duane Martin and Vivica A. Fox, for Sony-Screengems.
Rosendahl is distributed exclusively in the USA, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean by Sennheiser Electronic Corporation. It joins a list of distinguished audio brands that Sennheiser distributes including Neumann Microphones, Innova SON Digital Consoles, Chevin Research Amplifiers, Turbosound Loudspeakers, TL Audio Products and HHB Professional Audio Products.

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"Bernie Mac Show" engineer Stanley A. Smith finds Rosendahl Nanosyncs is the one good clock for film and video.