With Sylvain Denis as sound engineer, Tim Oldham as producer, Gabriel Balsas Jorge assistant and Emmanuelle Husson and as technical solution designer, a recent recording of Marko Letonja conducting the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno in a performance of works by Leos Janácek . Made under social; distancing conditions, the recording used 18 Merging Technologies Anubis desktop interface/converters and three Hapi MkII network interfaces.
The necessary distances between musicians, conductor and choir saw the Merging+Anubis units distributed throughout the orchestra at key positions, to connect the microphones using the shortest analogue path possible, and also to provide headphone outputs if necessary. The 18 Anubis units were complemented by three Hapi interfaces for the Decca Tree.
All interfaces were interconnected in an AES67 network occupying minimal real estate, with easy and rapid deployment and simple cabling. Everything was completely modular, reflecting the number of sources required, and connected back to the control room where a main Pyramix DAW and a secondary Pro Tools DAW for were used for the recording. The control room’s Anubis was directly connected to the monitor loudspeakers, as well as providing two headphone outputs to allow the monitoring of the recording.
‘This combination of Merging converters is perfectly suited for recordings where latency is critical,’ a Merging representative says. ‘This could be for film music concerts and hybrid projects where rock meets classical.’
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