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The Gold Medal performances were spread out across four separate rooms

on the campus, with the largest space used by those on string instruments

and the piano, all socially distanced. The woodwind and brass sections
were based in separate rooms while the conductor was located in a fourth

room.

“We had 90 musicians in total across the different rooms and building,”

Hepple said. “We needed to manage a number of inputs and outputs
across the space and have them be as latency free as possible. They

needed to be able to perform synchronously with one another.”

To do this, 40 Neumann, Rupert Neve Designs, Schoeps, and DBA

directional microphones were strategically placed across the space to

capture instrument audio. These feeds were brought into SSL, Yamaha
and Neutrik preamplifiers where they were translated into Dante-native

channels and fed out to Cisco and Dell switch infrastructure across two

buildings, and then routed to a Solid State Logic System T mixer that

allows for broadcast-specific processing. The audio feeds were then
delivered out to two locations: to the broadcast mix for live playout via a live

production system, and to the other performers via headphones.

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“With Dante we were able to deliver the correct mix to the different rooms

with an imperceptible level of latency,” Hepple added. “Our conductor went