University redesigns workflows with Dante
Thursday, 18 February 2021
The University of Miami redesigned its live sports production workflows
USA - Prior to 2020, The University of Miami redesigned its live sports production workflows to ensure all audio feeds were on the network with Audinate’s Dante. From field mics to mixers - and from basketball to soccer - the university made the choice to trust Dante for all audio-over-IP capabilities. “We don’t have a single XLR patch anywhere in our workflow,” said Anthony Lestochi, director of production services at the university. “Moving to Dante was clearly the better way to operate. It made building out our production really easy and effective. And, when COVID happened, Dante made it easy to quickly adapt.”
For many artists, the impact of COVID-19 forcing people to collaborate remotely might not matter too much due to sending beats and verses over the internet. But for someone like Drake who works so closely with longtime friend and producer Noah ’40’ Shebib, it could have presented a problem.
Luckily for 40, he’s been able to use a software called Unity Connect, along with Zoom, to his advantage. During a virtual interview with
Pensado’s Place, the producer broke down his process of recording music with Drizzy since coronavirus restrictions were enforced.
“So basically I’m running Connect Unity,” he said. “I’m using their software to, I can move 64 channels of audio between facilities … so what I’ve been doing with Drake that’s kinda cool through COVID is I set up Connect on his laptop. Now Connect is what goes onto the network and lets you choose a sound card to receive and share. And the latency you can get down so low that I can play MIDI instruments by s
DiGiCo S21 delivers flexible broadcast solution
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Robert Edwards’ ‘home studio’
UK - Sound BAFTA Winner Robert Edwards is one of the UK’s leading television sound supervisor/directors and an elected Fellow of the Institute of Professional Sound. This accolade is the result of 45 years of work and a credit list of productions that includes opening and closing ceremonies for the Summer and Winter Olympics, and TV shows such as
X Factor,
The Masked Singer,
The Wheel,
Celebrity Juice It was this last’s production during lockdown that saw him head into what was previously his home cinema and, with a few tweaks, turn it into a home studio / office, relying on a DiGiCo S21 mixing console to deliver his broadcast mix.
DiGiCo S21 delivers flexible, cost-effective solution for remote broadcast mixing UK – Sound BAFTA Winner Robert Edwards is the UK’s leading television sound supervisor / director and an elected Fellow of the Institute of Professional Sound. This accolade is the result of 45 years of exceptional work and a credit list of productions that includes opening and closing ceremonies for the Summer and Winter Olympics, and TV shows such as X Factor, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, The Masked Singer, Britain’s Got Talent, The Wheel, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and Celebrity Juice. It was the latter s production during lockdown that saw him head into what was previously his home cinema and, with a few tweaks, turn it into a home studio / office, relying on a DiGiCo S21 mixing console to deliver his broadcast mix.