Machine Operations Room

The mega airconditioning units work overtime to keep the sensitive equipment in this room cool and working through the sizzling hot months of summer. Noisy enough to make the center of any large city jealous, this room keeps cranking out the cold air and hot programming, so that millions of households across the world can have their daily dose of hollywood gossip, nightly news, and afternoon melodramas. In broadcast media facilities, a machine room, or central equipment room (CER), is where shared equipment common to all technical areas is located. Some broadcast facilities have several of these rooms. It should be air-conditioned, however low-noise specifications such as acoustical treatments are optional. They contain broadcast and monitoring equipment, through which all the operations are monitored by the Transmission Engineer, with out disturbing the Studio Recordings. CER usually houses audio and video routers, video servers, compressors and multiplexers, Analog Transmission System, UP Link, Digital Processing Synchronizer, Video Patch Panels, and Audio Patch Panels, including video monitors etc. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=126505