This year's proprietary MegaCOMMS audio network comprises the company's flagship CDC eight-32 console, two of the latest CDC six medium size consoles, a compact CDC four:m console, a CDC MC Router and six CDC I/O stageboxes.
The Big Screen Experience Auditorium is being rigged with the CDC eight-32, a CDC six, along with the CDC MC Router, and two CDC I/O 3216 and two CDC I/O 6448 stageboxes; the CDC eight-32 handling the audio for presentations, film extracts and product reels, and the CDC six handling the on-stage microphones. The Big Screen Experience features a series of free to attend, editorially led sessions and complimentary movie screenings; this year's programme main features being The Jungle Book and a further, yet to be announced, block buster.
Additionally, a CDC six console with a CDC I/O 3216 stagebox will handle microphones and playback in the Emerald Room, a principal conference room, while the CDC four:m and remaining CDC I/O 3216 will provide audio production capabilities for IBC TV, the conference's 24 hour online news channel.
The system has been spec'd by Terry Nelson from IBC Technical Resources - specialist in audio and acoustics - working with Sean O'Dea, who is in overall charge of technical support for audio, with help from Cadac's technical sales support team.
Terry Nelson states, "This is the third year we have relied on Cadac for the audio mixing and distribution requirements for what is becoming an all-encompassing media conference. We needed a solution that could both match the ever increasing requirements of putting on and supporting such a dynamic show, whilst matching the audio performance that the attendees are expecting from the presentations.
"This is why we went to Cadac. The sonic performance is superb and the audio engineering is second to none, with its legendary mic pre-amplification and industry leading latency management. With the 'human interface' being so intuitive, I would regard the CDC eight and CDC six as being genuinely fourth generation digital consoles."
(Jim Evans)
