Yamaha Commercial Audio says it is committed to seamlessly interfacing its digital audio products with the widest array of networking protocols, ensuring that any potential problems of compatibility and different proprietary technologies are no issue for a Yamaha-based system. Audinate's Dante system is the latest to be adopted, with the Dante-MY16-AUD allowing Yamaha digital mixing consoles, DME processors and TXn series power amplifiers to make full use of Audinate's 'plug and play' technology.
Each Dante-MY16-AUD card provides 16 bidirectional audio channels (16 channels at 48 kHz, or eight channels at 96 kHz) over Gigabit Ethernet with real time network redundancy, multiple cards supporting higher channel counts.
Britannia Row has already been extensively using the system with Yamaha products. The company's head of digital and RF, Kieran Walsh reports that Snow Patrol's late 2009 UK tour featured Yamaha DME digital mix engines seamlessly slotted into a Dante network, as did the Ministry Of Sound's New Year's Eve event at London's O2 Arena, which featured a mix of live and DJ sets by the likes of Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Justice, Plump DJs, Eric Prydz and Example.
"We had a huge system on it and used the Dante-MY16-AUD cards in a Yamaha DM1000 console to distribute the sound for the entire event," says Walsh. "It was a fully integrated system and it worked extremely well."
Brit Row's most advanced use of the technology so far, however, was at the end of August, at the Get Loaded In The Park dance event on London's Clapham Common. With four stages across the 220 acre site and many residential properties close by, noise limits are strictly enforced by the local authorities.
"The festival has very strict sound limits so, by using Yamaha DMEs fitted with the Dante-MY16-AUD cards, we were able to have four fully-independent stages, but at the same time they had audio centralised to one point on a Dante network," says Walsh. "This allowed feeds from all stages to be sent to a central point for noise control measures to be effected."
(Jim Evans)
