Studio Signal Light - Angry Audio

The Studio Signal Light.

Unless you like all that arm waving.

When the microphones are hot, you can’t just yell “Hey, you’re on!” That’s why you need the Studio Signal Light (broadcasters call these “tally lights”). Available in five sizes with one to five colored segments. The red segment tells everyone you’re on the air. The other colored segments can be used to indicate just about anything. A flashing light can replace a ringing phone. Another light can warn talent of an upcoming break. A special light for the pizza delivery guy? You’ll be coming up with plenty of your own bright ideas.

Each colored ring is lit with multiple long-life, energy-efficient LEDs. Each segment is individually programmable to illuminate steadily, flash, or to appear to rotate. The molded enclosure is made out of strong ABS plastic and mounts easily on your tabletop; simply drill a hole in the table for the cable, and use the included screws to secure the Light.

The Studio Signal Light is easy to control. Illuminate them with 12VDC. If you have a broadcast console with built-in logic, you can drive these directly. Or make your own interface. Better yet, use the Angry Audio Studio Signal Light Gadget designed just for this purpose. Your studio is going to be beautiful.

The Studio Signal Light is a really bright idea. Imagine one of these in every control room and every studio to give visual cues to talent and operators as needed. Everyone knows the red light means the mics are hot. But once the mics are hot, you might need to signal something. Maybe a light comes on to indicate a break is imminent. Or another light represents a ringing phone line. You’ll have fun figuring out how to use them. And once in place, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without them.

The Studio Signal Light Gadget

Studio Signal Light cables terminate with a female RJ45 connector; 12VDC lights up the segments. An engineer with some spare time could build something to do the job… But who’s got spare time? So we designed the Studio Signal Light Gadget just for this purpose.

The Studio Signal Light Gadget has five LED drivers to light up to five different light segments.The front panel has LEDs that correspond to the segment colors; the adjacent switch lets you automatically trigger the lights via rear-panel GPI connections, or trigger each one manually if you like. The Gadget can control all five models of the Studio Signal Light; for smaller Signal Lights, just ignore the unused control sections.

Like all Angry Audio products, the Studio Signal Light Gadget is designed for easy installation. Every segment has a dedicated RJ45 for GPI on the back panel. This makes it simple to use different devices to control different segments.

Additionally, the RJ45 marked “ALL” can control all five segments using one connection (useful when you want to control all of the lights with a single device). The drivers are all wired to a single RJ45 port, pinned to exactly match the RJ45 port on the Studio Signal Light (of course). All you need is a CAT5 patch cable to connect the light and gadget.