Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
[ Promoted from comment; I know better. This is a copy of a PSW post; apologies if anyone sees it twicet. ]
My theatre has a small, in-booth Dante net, used primarily to route direct-out audio from our LS9-32 to our Protools rig (PT10 on a Mac Pro cheesegrater, running DVS and Controller). (There's also a Rednet1, but I've never used it.)
That much has been working fine for 6 years or so; we use it 8 or 10 times a year for concerts.
For our next theatre show, we needed to stuff the band in our scene shop, so we pulled out our backup LS9, never used but a couple times, upgraded it from 1.11 to 1.35 firmware, and cabled it up from the shop to the booth, through our stage network, about 90 feet of in-wall ethernet cable.
Controller sees the MY-AUD cards come up just fine, and after adjusting the patching on the B console -- the one I'm trying to use as, essentially, a stagebox -- I got a burst of audio, maybe 5 seconds, a couple of times.
And that was all.
(My audio source was an open mic, listening to Alexa across the room; I could see the level continuously on the console meters, and via SM2 up the separately cabled ethernet run that put that console on our Production LAN. The audio I got through was identifiably the smooth jazz I asked Alexa to play, and as clean as you'd expect across a 30 ft room through a Heil PR-22. Everything is at 48kHz, and I tried a couple permutations of word clocking on the LS9's with no luck.)
A buddy of mine is the FOH mixer at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, and was kind enough to listen to me yammer and whine about it, but the only suggestion he had that I didn't tell him I'd already done was to loosen the latency knobs for the relevant devices in Controller -- they were at .015 and I opened them to, I think, .05? 4 clicks up instead of 1. Sadly, that didn't help either.
There don't seem to be a lot of diagnostic tools for Dante networks (that aren't hardware costing 3 grand and up), and Controller doesn't tell you much either... so I'm at sort of a loss.
Anyone got any suggestions I can try out? I'll be back in the room 2 or 3 times before tech week starts on Monday, so I'll still have time to apply a bigger hammer, soon's I find out what that is...
My theatre has a small, in-booth Dante net, used primarily to route direct-out audio from our LS9-32 to our Protools rig (PT10 on a Mac Pro cheesegrater, running DVS and Controller). (There's also a Rednet1, but I've never used it.)
That much has been working fine for 6 years or so; we use it 8 or 10 times a year for concerts.
For our next theatre show, we needed to stuff the band in our scene shop, so we pulled out our backup LS9, never used but a couple times, upgraded it from 1.11 to 1.35 firmware, and cabled it up from the shop to the booth, through our stage network, about 90 feet of in-wall ethernet cable.
Controller sees the MY-AUD cards come up just fine, and after adjusting the patching on the B console -- the one I'm trying to use as, essentially, a stagebox -- I got a burst of audio, maybe 5 seconds, a couple of times.
And that was all.
(My audio source was an open mic, listening to Alexa across the room; I could see the level continuously on the console meters, and via SM2 up the separately cabled ethernet run that put that console on our Production LAN. The audio I got through was identifiably the smooth jazz I asked Alexa to play, and as clean as you'd expect across a 30 ft room through a Heil PR-22. Everything is at 48kHz, and I tried a couple permutations of word clocking on the LS9's with no luck.)
A buddy of mine is the FOH mixer at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, and was kind enough to listen to me yammer and whine about it, but the only suggestion he had that I didn't tell him I'd already done was to loosen the latency knobs for the relevant devices in Controller -- they were at .015 and I opened them to, I think, .05? 4 clicks up instead of 1. Sadly, that didn't help either.
There don't seem to be a lot of diagnostic tools for Dante networks (that aren't hardware costing 3 grand and up), and Controller doesn't tell you much either... so I'm at sort of a loss.
Anyone got any suggestions I can try out? I'll be back in the room 2 or 3 times before tech week starts on Monday, so I'll still have time to apply a bigger hammer, soon's I find out what that is...