Technical Information
There are two studios and a vast loft space at Xtreme Radio. Studio 1 is used as the main studio for live broadcasting, but can also be used for production purposes if needed. Studio 2 is mainly used as a production and recording studio, as well as being a backup facility in case of problems with Studio 1. There is also some office space in the adjacent Waterfront office (the student newspaper), for the Executive members to use.
The Waterfront office area also contains the audio distribution and processing units. The station feed is also distributed to speakers around the Students' Union buildings, namely the Level 2 Shop, Waterfront office, Events and Marketing office, Union House computer room, Cafe West and other eating areas. The Student Swansea Box Office also stream the webfeed outside their ticket-purchasing area, and The Wonky Sheep in the Student Village has also been known to stream Xtreme during the day.
Xtreme also links annually with Cardiff University's station Xpress Radio to present live coverage of the Welsh Varsity sporting events between the two institutions, including a full live commentary from the Men's Rugby match in the evening.
In March 2009 the Studios were upgraded to broadcast in Stereo on the web. The studios had previously only been wired for mono due to the station originally only broadcasting on mono AM/MW, and due to mainly a lack of funds the transition never occurred until March 2009, when the then current Chief Engineer headed the transition to stereo, and at the beginning of the Easter break, the studio was re-wired ready for stereo. Studio 1's Playout PC was upgraded to output four stereo outputs and one mono output, for use with mAirList, the live assist playout system. During this work a new streaming server was also installed, which Xtreme now has full control over.
During Summer 2009, Xtreme managed to, mainly due to the then Station Manager and Head of Engineering's respectively efforts, get funding for new equipment, being the first major equipment upgrade for a while.
In November 2009, the station was awarded silver for Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards for the Onair Loop System which was designed by the Chief Engineer at the time, Brett Jenkins,. In 2010 they won silver for the same award for the iPhone application (which was also designed by Brett), and they won bronze in 2011 for Station Manager a web based interface for Myriad, which was designed by the former Head of Engineering - Toby Hughes.
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