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Line 1: − Every year, towards the end of the Autumn Term, URY has this awful habit of doing two "festive" "things".+ + + + + + + + + + + − + − URY's Committee, Presenters and general happeners all get together on a Saturday (or other convenient time), to record a cute original music video for a popular song. Of course, this is then followed up with a studio recording of our wonderful voices singing - I can assure you it's an experience.+ − Usually, these songs are covers of traditional Christmas tunes. Although sometimes they will be parodies relevant to the University of York, or even completely original compositions. As of 2013, all of these are available in URY's Central Music Library.+ + − {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"+ − ! Year − ! Song − ! Notes − |- − | 2013 − | Fairytale of New York − | A nice traditional outright cover. Entirely produced by URY. [http://youtu.be/o22F27cOpGg] − |- − | 2013 − | This is Hes East − | Part of the 2013 Christmas Panto. Yes, we know the panto version doesn't normally do "A Whole New World". [http://youtu.be/qEO9mYaIuTg] − |- − | 2012 − | Merry Christmas Everyone − | There are rumours an alternate version consisting entirely of the URY Computing Team exists, but was never allowed to see daylight. Entirely produced by URY. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6m1Y0Uu6DE] − |- − | 2011 − | Black Christmas − | A parody of Rebecca Black's Friday. Due to lack of forward planning, was performed live on air by whoever was around at the time. Failed miserably. − |- − | 2010 − | I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday − | Outright cover. The music video was produced by YSTV. We don't talk about it. − |- − | 2010 − | I Go To York Uni, It's True − | Little is known of this parody of All I Want For Christmas Is You - not even the source of the vocals. However, we can learn a valuable lesson - the only thing that has changed ever since is that you can't get olives in YUSU Bars anymore. − |- − | 2009 − | Do They Know It's Christmas? − | The older tech we had back then is quite obvious. − |- − | 2008 − | Christmas On My Face (A Terrible Case of Xmas) − | This is original. Original! And also The Best Thing! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICvXorh-s] − |} − [[Category: URY History]]+ + + − + − Of course, what radio station would be completely without a Christmas Panto? Featuring a "Celebrity" guest, each year we put our own spin on popular pantomimes. − {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"+ − ! Year+ − ! Production+ − ! Guest Star+ − ! Notes+ − |-+ − | 2013+ − | Aladdin+ − | Jon Lee (off of S Club 7)+ − | Someone talk about this.+ − |-+ − | 2012+ − | I can't remember.+ − | Some Bloke off of Coronation Street, I think.+ − | + − |}+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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{{Team
|tstyle={{Teamstyle Engineering}}
|name=Engineering Team
|brief=Maintains URY's audio and broadcast hardware. Also oversees building infrastructure and general maintenance.
|csec=[[Constitution|Here]]
|roles=[[Chief Engineer]]<br />[[Assistant Chief Engineer]]
|teammail=engineering@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=engineering@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=chief.engineer@ury.org.uk
}}
'''Engineering Team''' is the URY team responsible for maintaining URY's broadcast equipment and providing suitable set-ups for outside broadcasting, live sessions, or anything else you can think of really. If it handles analogue or digital audio and isn't a computer, its probably ours!
== URY Christmas Single ==
==What do we do?==
From the moment a sound leaves anything (a computer, vinyl, human, cassette, instrument, etc) to the moment it goes in to a computer for streaming, we are responsible for it! Whether that's in the studio, a session recording, the transmission (Tx) cupboard in stores or at an Outside Broadcast (OB), it's our issue.
===Studio 1===
The main broadcasting studio, S1 was last re-built in 2011 with the support of Alumni funding (YuFund). The mixing desk is a Sonifex S2 split-chassis broadcast desk. There are: 5 mics; 2 vinyl decks; 2 CDJs; 2 CD players; 4 aux inputs; a telephone channel with jack input (for a smartphone); 3 BAPs channels (from the presenter PC); a guest PC input; a presenter PC input. For visualisation, there are also 2 HD ready cameras and 2 LED lights.
S1 is home to the Tardis. This contains all the outboard stuff used in the studio, including a RedNet 2; compression; patch panels; headphone distribution; Wil's Black Box; sonifex power; black magic (visualisation); speaker amps.
===Studio 2===
Primarily used for recording, S2 was last re-built in 2012. The mixing desk is a Sonifex Sovereign broadcasting desk with custom modifications. There are: 3 mic; 2 aux inputs; 3 BAPs channels (from the presenter PC); a disconnected telephone channel.
S2 is home to the Blue Box. This contains a RedNet 2 (under construction); compression; patch panels; sonifex power; a speaker amp.
== Christmas Panto ==
===Production Office===
The production office is also the main office of URY. Day-to-day it is used by any member of the station as a space to plan shows, meet with other members or get some work done. At the far end is a production PC and mixing desk. These can be used for recording sessions, jingles, clips, etc. The desk is a Yamaha 01v96i digital sound desk with a MY-16AUD Dante expansion card. This is connected via USB and analogue cabling to the PC. It also has inputs from both office wall-PCs, the studios, the CD player, and a patch panel in S2.
===Transmission===
URY is broadcast across campus on 1350AM. Our output is also streamed online at ury.org.uk, on radio player, iTunes radio, etc. The engineering team is responsible for getting the audio output to 1350AM and to the stream server for [[computing]] to stream. This all happens in the transmission (Tx) cupboard located in stores. Access to this is restricted to only the Head of Computing and Chief Engineer due to our licence, however they can grant access to anyone except the station manager.
The Tx cupboard contains a Radica transmitter and compressor, some outboard compression, a RedNet 3 and a Scarlett 18i20 (USB audio interface). It also contains a number of servers and computers.
The transmitter is connected underground to a Radica tuner and the antenna (out the back of Vanbrugh Kitchen).
===The bits between them all...===
===Outside Broadcasts===
===Stores===
==The Kit==
==Recent History==
==Members (past and present)==
===Chief Engineers===
* ''2015 - present'': [[James Rudge]]
* ''2014 - 2015'': [[Adam Brain]]
* ''2013 - 2014'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]]
* ''2012 - 2013'': [[Tom Haines]]
* ''2012 (summer)'': [[Wil Bennet]]
* ''2010 - 2012'': [[Luke Sarjant and Wil Bennet]]
* ''2009 - 2010'': [[Clement Sun]]
* ''2008 - 2009'': [[Dylan Jones]]
* ''2006 - 2008'': [[Matt Gray]]
* ''2006 (spring)'': [[Jonny Hardman]]
* ''2004 - 2006'': [[Iain Kelly]]
* ''2003 - 2004'': [[Matt Fullerton]]
* ''2003'': [[Terence Withers]]
* ''2001 - 2003'': [[Philip Stewart]]
* ''1997 - 2000'': [[Jonathan Ledbury]]
* ''1996 - 1998'': [[Paul Burns]]
* ''1996 - 1997'': [[Dave Stevenson]]
* ''1993 - 1994'': [[Mark Patrick]]
* ''1993 - 1994'': [[Alistair MacDonald]]
===Assistant Chief Engineers===
* ''2015 - present'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] & [[Mat Carrington-Mackenzie]]
* ''2014 - 2015'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[James Rudge]]
* ''2013 - 2014'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[Tom Haines]]
* ''2013 (summer)'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]]
* ''2012 - 2013'': [[Wil Bennet]] & [[Andy Durant]]
* ''2011 - 2012'': [[Tom Haines]] & [[Jonathan Rees]]
* ''2010 - 2011'': [[Launrence Hobden]]
* ''2006 (summer)'': [[Matt Gray]]
* ''2004 - 2005'': [[Jonny Hardman]]
* ''2003 - 2004'': [[Terence Withers]]
* ''2002 - 2003'': [[Matt Fullerton]]
* ''2001 - 2002'': [[Adam Leith]] & [[Jonathan Aitken]]
* ''1995 - 1996'': [[Wim Roose]]