Led video screens and Dante audio network, an ideal combination at Jordan Hare Stadium

In addition to having one of the largest LED video screens in a university sports facility from the Daktronics firm, The fan experience is furthered by the deployment of dozens of Dante audio networks to support other systems with high-quality sound.

American football stadium JHare from there, located on the campus of the Auburn University (Alabama – United States), with capacity for 87.451 Tigers home team seats and headquarters, cuenta ahora con una de las pantallas de vídeo Led de alta definición del fabricante más grandes en este tipo de instalaciones universitarias (17x60 meters) of Daktronics, which is accompanied by impressive high-quality sound over IP with Dante audio networking from Audinate.

This public university, that welcomes more than 27.000 students, decided to invest fourteen million dollars in renewing the audiovisual infrastructure of its football stadium, currently known as Pat Dye Field, to enhance the fans' gaming experience with multi-camera systems for playing multiple HD video sources and displaying them on the large LED video screen that has been located above the South end of the field.

This large screen is made up of more than 8,7 millions of LEDs and replaces the one that had, Features variable zoning content to display a single image (which can be viewed at a distance of up to 12,8 Km) or split it into several different ones and show live video combinations, instant replays, score and statistics, animations and advertising sponsorships.

As part of this project, the deployment of a new Dante audio network that is used on the screen is added, to replace the previous analog audio distribution. “Dante represents the next generation digital audio networking technology”, asegura David Fallenbecher, audio project engineer at Daktronics.

Centralized in an audio control room located in the stadium press room, Dante networking allows a single audio operator to seamlessly manage a wide range of inputs from the players and microphones most used by broadcasters, referees and musical artists.

“We use Dante in, approximately, he 60 from 70% of our large format display installations because it is extremely flexible, scalable and configurable -Sturzenbecher emphasizes-. “Its seamless interoperability between components makes it easy to expand existing installations.”.

Audio elements are controlled centrally from a mixing console Yamaha Rio de la serie CL5, specifically model 3224-D, Dante enabled, con 32 entries, 16 exits and 4 AES/EBU outputs in 5U size. Working in conjunction with Dante-compatible networking components, the CL5 console delivers the audio signals (until 64 canales) to DSP units distributed around the stadium.

London-BLU-806 digital signal processors BSS convert various analog and digital audio signals to the digital format required for transmission over the Dante network, thus for performing routing and equalization.

The Dante network also uses six London BLU-326 processors to decode in AES-EBU to the display, monitors and speakers.

As Sturzenbecher explains, “London BLU-806 essentially acts as the brain of the network, since it carries out most of the operations, directing from the mixing console and through Dante all the processing and directing the audio signal to different places, like the press room, speakers, monitors, etc. Not having signal routing limitations has been a definite advantage in this installation”.

Auburn University technical managers are already planning an update for the stands in the North area of ​​the stadium, which also includes the installation of another LED video screen.