The Peter Gabriel "New Blood, Scratch My Back Tour" is nothing less than spectacular.
For this tour it`s only Peter, and a 54 piece orchestra. No drums, no guitars.
Peter and the New Blood Orchestra performed cover songs to sellouts at amphitheaters and arenas throughout Europe this form and fall.
Due to the infinite of technical complexities throughout the tour, Audinate`s digital media networking technology Dante, was chosen by Brit Row Productions.
Because of the complexities of delivering an even orchestral sound to large arena audiences, a list of finely controlled zones were required.
Richard Sharrat, FOH engineer for the tour, used 9 sends from the Digico SD-7 to Dante enable products. In place to see that these sends were combined properly, a Yamaha DME 64 with a Dante-MY16-AUD was exploited to remove the AES outputs of the cabinet to the entire Dante network.
The DME also allows for fine system matrix control and examination of the system independently of the comfort and FOH engineer. Final system EQ was achieved using (2) Dolby Lake Processors running MESA EQ modules, to an additional (5) Dolby Lake Processors and a Lab.gruppen LM26 acting as crossovers for the PA all distributed via Dante over fiber.
Josh Lloyd, Systems Technician for Brit Row Production said, "Using Dante over fiber replaced a 32 pair return snake. A diminutive part of fibre optical cable, will delivered far greater control of the sound, which is vital in such an application".
"Naturally Dante is subject of much more than this especially when employing a single mode fiber. Dante gives the reassurance that there is enough of headroom in the network, and that everything is loss to operate reliably show after show".
Brit Row Productions (BRP) is using single mode fiber as opposed to the older multimode fiber
The advantages of single mode fiber over Multi-mode fibre are; greater potential bandwidth (this is the average on which 10 Giga Bit Ethernet is transported, and longer maximum distances (up to 160Km in one hop)
Another characteristic of Dante used by Lloyd is its Multicast vs. Unicast settings tool, which in a go of this size and complexity, made Lloyd`s job much easier.
Lloyd remarked, "Dante, being a truly IP over Ethernet compliant system allows for a broad diversity of network topologies to be used. Because signal only goes to the places where it is needed, there is no wastage of network bandwidth."
"Traditionally this could just be achieved with considerable time spent configuring network settings and audio channel settings". Says Lloyd," Dante`s easy to use configuration tool makes it a no brainer- if the point needs to go to various places, I choose multicast, if it required to go to one site then unicast. The big matter about Dante, is that it will "present its workings" but not drive you into making a conclusion if you are glad with what it suggests".
As with most Peter Gabriel tours, multi-media and tv plays a big portion of the show. The use of Dante was particularly useful on this tour. When an audio feed was needed to the Video department, it took very short time to setup.
The sound engineers simply plugged an Ethernet cable into a switch, setup the while on Dante Controller, and gave the tv crew a very clean feed, without having to study complex routing or topology issues. This race of deployment and flexibility meant that the sound engineers could focus on their main job, which is delivering great sounding audio to the audience.
"Using Dante on a turn of this size makes load-in and load-outs much faster, is soft to use and read and almost of all, gives me the form of audio control I could but dreaming about a few short days ago".
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