The final path between conference rooms is a three switch hop. I did a test connection on a single switch before I moved the equipment and all worked on one unifi switch. I analyzed the traffic and it’s about 80Mbps, so I’m thinking it’s gonna be an easy thing to just put this on their 1Gb unifi switches. They want to move some of their audio equipment to another conference room and bridge the audio. The original configuration had everything in a large conference arena, and the dante equipment was connected with a $40 1Gb monoprice switch. For our Dante units without control, we are still finding this theory works for us.I’m working with a network configuration for an organization that has a decent sized Dante network. At this point I felt like remote pre adjustment was no longer something I needed to worry about. We found with that system, 30db or so of gain was enough to get your mic well above the -125dbm noise floor and still leave you around 40db of headroom before clipping at +24dbm. Unless you are doing symphony orchestra, you can park your gain inside of a 40db window and have totally acceptable performance making up any difference on the console end. It uses 96k 24bit audio and has quite a bit of dynamic range. However, my feelings changed after many years with my older digital snake system. I used to feel that remote control of mic pres was EVERYTHING. We use Sennheiser wireless mics and IEMs, their units are all controllable over a separate network (just a different VLAN on our switch) with the WSM software. The RDL units simply have a mic/line switch on the unit. The Yamaha TIO can be finely controlled with the Yamaha R-Remote software, or controlled directly on the surface of some of their consoles. It's a rudimentary 3 step adjustment, but gets you in the ballpark.
#DANTE VIRTUAL SOUNDCARD VLAN SOFTWARE#
The Atterotech units we have can be adjusted by the software that ships with the unit. It's up to each device manufacturer to tackle this issue. However, the network is perfectly capable of providing a connection for this function. The Dante transport does not have provisions for mic pre control per se, it was designed solely to move audio over a network. Only short audio jumpers in the field boxes to the Dante units remain. All of our XLR connection cables between racks are gone as well. Just plug a cat5 into audio board, intercom, etc and done. With Dante natively in our audio consoles now, the control room end of gear is GONE. Our old engines required a box at both ends, and cabling to the mixer et all as well. The good thing about all of our Dante upgrades, is that we now only have audio interfaces in the field. We have not purchased this, mostly due to its size alone-2RU and very deep, just doesn't fit our size plans for field boxes. You can remote control the mic pres with a laptop/software. Retails for $999 (around 850 street) and has 16 mic/line in, 8 line out, all XLR connections in 2RU. The other good bang-for-buck unit we have looked at is the Yamaha Tio1608-D.
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We are having a minor issue with the unit not recalling its internal patch presets correctly, but at least the routing sticks thru a power cycle. We have 2 of these and plan on at least 2 more in the next year. It has 32x32 analog, 32x32 ADAT, 64圆4 MADI, and of course 64圆4 Dante-all in 1RU of space! Price is around $3000. Our favorite unit for high channel counts is currently the Ferrofish A32 Dante. It's safe to say we are done with this brand. We also bought a RedNet6 (Dante to madi, got it used for cheap) but have found its latency is too high for our tastes. I don't hear any difference in the audio, nor can I measure any difference between this and just about any of the other Dante units we have.
As you found these are some of the higher priced units available. It has been discontinued and was replaced by the A16r, retails for $3600. The switcher rack pictured in the other thread has a Focusrite RedNet2 which is 16x16 line level. They are also very small, and just double stick taped to the inside of the rack somewhere-zero RU required! Also using the Atterotech uNDIO2x2+, a similar unit with 2x2 IO for about $500. They are also POE powered by our managed switches-one cat5 cable and done. They cost around $600-$700 and give us 4in and 4 out. The RU-MLB4P, and RU-LB4P are in a lot of our field cases. We use many units from Radio Design Labs. Less weight to ship in both gear and cables, better quality over long distance, and the fast recall of previous show setups are all benefits we believe are worth the extra monies. Let me start by saying as cool as Dante is, it adds a substantial cost to the rig. As not to hijack the ongoing discussion about OB units for just an audio rant.well here we go. Asgeir Hustad had asked about Dante audio units in another thread.
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