44 l January 2014
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livenews Focusrite ENTER.s the club
SPAIN By Erica Basnicki
RICHIE HAWTIN’S ENTER. party, which took place at Space nightclub in Ibiza this summer, relied on Focusrite’s RedNet 4 audio interfaces to give club-goers a unique, fully immersive experience. Focusrite’s RedNet 4 audio interfaces were located in the DJ booths of each of Space’s five rooms, connected
by single Cat-6 cables to a central network switch in the club’s machine room. The network piped 96kHz digital audio via Audinates Dante platform around the complex, managed by ENTER.’s chief audio engineer Johannes Kraemer from his MacBook Pro rig. From there, Kraemer recorded
four channels of audio from each room – for a total of 20 channels – on to three recording
systems simultaneously. A JoeCo BlackBox Recorder fitted with a Dante interface card was the primary recorder, with Logic Pro and Cubase running on two separate computers as backups. All the audio feeds were monitored using a Yamaha 01V96i digital mixer. “The RedNet 4 preamps are
very clear and open – they make you feel like you’re in the club with the DJ,” said Kraemer.
Richie Hawtin, known for pushing audio’s technical boundaries, brought RedNet to Ibiza
“The sound quality of the whole system is very precise, and of course the signal doesn’t
GERMANY
Sound in motion with Panix and TiMax
Panix and TiMax at the
Fraunhofer Institute’s 2013 annual conference
By Erica Basnicki
PANIX, A new event sound design team in Germany that places emphasis on audio showcontrol, imaging and spatialisation, has purchased a TiMax SoundHub-48S/MADI playback server and audio showcontrol matrix. Founded in late Spring 2013, partners Jorg Rapp and Stephan Diebel have already completed projects for VW at the Frankfurt 2013 IAA motor show plus branding and conference events for Adidas and the Fraunhofer Institute. The Adidas Global Brand 2013 Conference featured as its centerpiece a 21m 3D projection screen. TiMax SoundHub was used to programme and replay sound effects, using a combination of manual triggers and timecode to sync audio events to video content. Simultaneously TiMax provided EQ, level and routing
for loudspeaker system management, as well as reinforcement of all mics to localise the presenters to their actual positions on stage. Objectives were similar at the 2013 annual conference of the Fraunhofer Institute at the HCC Kuppelsaal in Hannover. TiMax SoundHub provided system management for approximately three-quarters of the sound systems; dynamic panning of audio content to match the movements of elements in the video content; vocal localisation to four separate locations in the room for different presenter and performer mics. “For us on-site, the well-
structured TiMax SoundHub software allows fast programming which is especially important for industrial events where we have very short periods of production,” said Diebel. “The sound quality and overall functionality have convinced us this was a good investment.”
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