Specialising in live and event sound, AS Project Co has given Japan its first use of Focusrite’s RedNet modular audio networking system.

Headquartered in in the Shinjyuku district of Tokyo, the company has been using Yamaha’s CL series of live mixing consoles with Pro Tools HD, and was able to take advantage of the console’s onboard Dante functionality to interface it with RedNet – two RedNet 5 units are connected to Pro Tools HD and to the Dante network, providing 64 channels of uncompressed digital audio between the console and the recording system.

‘RedNet 5 is recognised immediately as two 192 Digital I/O units from the Pro Tools side and, therefore, the routing is very straightforward,’ says Sound Engineer Masahiro Fukuhara. ‘RedNet Control and Dante Controller are installed in a MacBook Pro with Nuendo Live. Pro Tools HD on the main Mac Pro machine, and Nuendo Live works as a backup for recording.

Within the Dante network, digital audio signals for recording are connected through a Gigabit Luminex Giga Switch 8 Ethernet switch. Long-distance cabling requirements are taken care of by high-quality Cat5e cable. The master clock from the system is taken from a black burst generator converted to word clock by a Sync I/O into the Yamaha CL5, which is then the master clock for the Dante network. RedNet 5 provides the loop sync for an additional 192 I/O ports.

I’ve had experience with Dante, but installing RedNet 5 was easy – just connect and power-on,’ Fukuhara says. ‘We’ve already used it for some live recordings and it’s worked well every time.’

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