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Engineering apprenticeship: Seb Rose lifts the lid on what it's like to work at Radio 1

Seb Rose

Engineering apprentice

The eighth floor in 成人论坛 New Broadcasting House is home to the popular stations 成人论坛 Radio 1/1Xtra and Asian Network. The whole floor has an amazing buzz about it, and you can tell everyone is extremely keen to work there and create great content.

As a broadcast engineering apprentice working within the Popular Music Radio Operations Team, I have been tasked with completing a range of projects.

At Radio 1 I have been working on one of their station sound rooms. This has involved me creating custom mixes on the Yamaha 02R mixing console that is in the room, configuring and installing sound cards in the computers, creating feeds in and out of the computers and their sound cards, and configuring outboard processing units.

All this has been done to allow quick turnaround of features and shows that are up to broadcast quality instantly without the need for lots of extra work. This allows the teams to mix and export a show or feature and get it on the radio within minutes.

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