Scott Willsallen of Auditoria was charged with delivering a high quality audio experience to everyone in attendance at both Randwick and the "Super Thursday" opening mass, which drew 140,000 to Barangaroo on Sydney Harbour. He relied on Dante to distribute signal from the mixing desks to speaker towers throughout the enormous audiences.
Willsallen is an expert in designing audio systems for major events. His resumé includes the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2006 Doha Asian Games, 2006 Eurovision Song Contest and the 2003 Rugby World Cup. "Using Dante offered an extremely cost-effective way of distributing audio to the large number of speaker towers used at the venues - seventy of them at Randwick", he said. "Dante networking was easy to set up and operate. I estimate that it saved around $200,000 in cabling costs."
"Dante meets the stringent performance requirements of live professional audio," says Aidan Williams, CTO of Audinate, the company behind Dante. "Audio professionals find it easy to set up and operate a Dante network because its Zen protocol allows all the pieces of the system to discover each other automatically. For these reasons Dante is being used in a growing number of large live events in Australia, the USA and the UK."
(Jim Evans)
