NMR Staging And Events director of audio, Lou Castelluci, spec'd a DiGiCo CS-D5 for the production to manage over 24 inputs of video, myriad wireless mics, recording/playback functions, and outputs for both the live audience and broadcast recording decks. The console's ability to handle the Digigram EtherSound technology proved invaluable, as Castelluci was able to keep the audio all-digital by sending eight channels of EtherSound out of the console to his Nexo PA. via his Nexo 242 digital processors.
"Since we already owned the EtherSound Cards for the Nexo NX242s it only made sense to have a digital board that could handle the EtherSound outputs as an option," Castelluci says. "DiGiCo in its forethought made it available. What it allows me to do is keep my drive lines from the DiGiCo to all the digital processors - and to control all the processors and console via a Dell Precision laptop running Auvitran ESMonitor software. No more having to go out to the racks and change my processor settings manually."
(Jim Evans)
