PORTLAND, OR — Britannia Row Productions credited an Audinate Dante digital media network for helping the soundco support the Diamond Jubilee concerts at the Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace in early June.
The concerts helped celebrate 60 years since Queen Elizabeth’s coronation — the first such milestone since Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1897.
Britannia Row Productions system designer Joshua Lloyd came up with the discreet design for the sound system serving invited guests seated around the temporary stage at the Victoria Memorial.
“It was necessary to create a large distributed system to achieve this goal,” said Lloyd. “We used 24 stacks of Outline Butterfly loudspeakers, for a total of 96 boxes, to create this complex system. Each stack of Butterflys was driven by a Lake LM series processor, and all were networked together using off-the-shelf Cisco switches over a standard IP network.”
The sound system required more than four miles (6.5km) of fiber optic cabling. Brit Row deployed two Yamaha DME 64N units equipped with Dante-MY16-AUD networking cards. These were linked to six XTA Dante Breakout boxes and 48 LM series processors.
“This system could not have worked on analog, as the distances involved were so great, and the interference from every kind of signal and power cabling would have seriously damaged the audio quality,” said Lloyd. “Single mode fiber optic cabling was the only viable solution, and the sheer number of nodes required meant that using Dante Audio over IP was the simplest, most cost effective way to achieve this. ”
“Everyone at Audinate is very proud to have been involved as a part of this moment in Great Britain’s history,” said Lee Ellison, Audinate CEO. “As far as I know, this event was one of the largest crowds of people to ever hear audio over a Dante digital media network.”
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Diamond Jubilee concert image courtesy of Josh Lloyd
