SAM-Q-SDI: Choose how you want to work

Advances in technology are enabling the creation of ever more exciting content, as well as serving to increase new possibilities in content delivery. Comprehensive audio monitoring tools are now becoming a ‘must have’ for those needing to guarantee both content quality and quality of service.

Audio level meter displays, audio loudness measurement tools and audio metadata monitoring are at the very foundation of what audio professionals are used to. However, as technologies evolve, engineers and operators require audio solutions that also serve to improve their workflows. Built on the SAM-Q platform, the SAM-Q-SDI brings the freedom to monitor SDI, MADI, AES and analogue audio sources with maximum operational efficiency, offering multiple modes and up-gradable licences within one unit, ensuring that you get the most value out of your investment.

Feature Set

The SAM-Q range of audio monitors from TSL are unique in their ability to allow you to tailor their operation to the environment in which they will be used. Supporting a number of operational modes which can be enabled and disabled as required, the SAM-Q is equally at home in operational positions in studio facilities to OB trucks, master control positions and playout facilities. With the range of modes available it can be configured to meet the usage requirements and skill level of its location, before menu access is locked-down to ensure that the configuration isn’t unintentionally changed.

Modes of Operation

There are five standard modes included in the SAM-QSDI. Firstly, a traditional audio meter mode that displays 16 audio level meters with single or multiple audio channel selection. The video mode provides 16 audio level meters and single or multiple channel selection, complete with video confidence display. The mix mode is a graphical gain bar representation showing the relative mix levels of up to 8 audio sources. The names mode allows selection from 8 named audio sources, including audio presence indicators. Finally, the phase metering mode displays 8 sources and allows one audio source to be selected, monitored and checked for audio phase.

Additional Licenses

The SAM-Q is an all-round workhorse. With a comprehensive range of functionality included as standard, it also offers additional functionality that can be purchased separately and installed as licenses. This includes three loudness monitoring modes across 8 independent loudness probes, providing short-term, momentary and integrated loudness monitoring which can be logged to an external server. Finally, with the MADI license, customers will be able to mix, monitor and measure up to 128 MADI sources on the SAM-Q-SDI. Adopting a licensed approach means that customers need only purchase the audio monitoring functionality they need. Should audio monitoring requirements change, additional licences can be purchased as required to accommodate them, helping to protect a customer’s existing investment. At TSL’s core, remains the desire to maintain technical excellence and to keep pace with the latest technologies and industry standards. Any new platform from TSL comes complete with a roadmap designed in response to today’s rapid changing environments. Of course, maintaining a user-friendly experience, regardless of the advances in underlying technology is paramount to customer satisfaction. In this world of ever-changing requirements, TSL will provide customers with new and more inventive audio monitoring solutions. Not all customers wish to visualise, measure or control their audio in the same way, so the ability to configure an audio monitor based on the task at hand is becoming more important than ever before.

One Platform, Multiple Modes - Choose how you want to work.