Stepping beyond audio postproduction and broadcast, surveillance and audio forensics, Cedar Audio’s dialogue noise suppression is being taken up in other areas requiring critical communications. One such installation is in the surgery department of the Eastern Maine Medical Centre in the US.

In the Centre’s Remote Surgery Theatre, a single doctor manipulates the latest in medical robotics. Alongside, a control room houses the support staff who assist with the complex systems involved in the operation. Unfortunately, the microphones in the theatre are located in the ceiling next to the air conditioning vents, which adds a lot of noise to the audio heard in the control room. Since it’s vital that the doctor can be heard and understood with total accuracy, the Medical Centre invested in a Cedar DNS 8 Live multichannel dialogue noise suppressor to eliminate the unwanted noise, and ensure that the doctor’s voice is clear and intelligible at all times.

In addition to clarity, it is essential that the audio signal path should not be broken in the event of a glitch or other problem – a contingency covered by the DNS 8 Live’s fail-safe audio bypass. Implemented in the form of hardware relays that immediately connect the unit’s inputs to its outputs in the even of a power failure or other significant disruption, this ensures that the signal continues to pass.

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