ExCeL-based Fox Bars and Restaurants, who use Green-I as its preferred systems integrator, decided (as one of the Show's major sponsors) to create its own bar - Fox@Waterside - down on the exhibition floor. While Green-I's sister company Canegreen Commercial was invited to provide a conventional PA system for the feature, Fox had something more creative in mind when a pub quiz was scheduled midway through the show.
"We were asked to design Quiz Buzzers for each of the six tables," reports Green-I's Ian Woodall. "Although pressing a button is straightforward they wanted a scenario whereby the first finger on the buzzer disabled everything else."
By using a BSS Soundweb London BLU-80, linked to a laptop, they were able to contrive a solution which incorporated a five-second delay time after the buzzer was hit. "The BLU-80 handled all the logic, sending commands to the laptop as to which of the six buzzers had been activated first. After the five-second disable period had elapsed, all the buzzers would become active again."
Soundweb London enabled Green-I to create this solution. "We couldn't have done this with the original green box Soundwebs since they don't have logic capability - and neither can they trigger sound files," Woodall explains. "These are two great features that the new London range has to offer."
In addition, the Ethernet-controlled BSS Soundweb London provides more flexible and enhanced I/O configurations, dual-redundant CobraNet audio networking with greater capacity and matrix sizes, double the DSP of the Soundweb 9088ii processor and a new core system design package written completely from the ground up.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
