Dante capability and sound quality at events with Powersoft Ottocanali

The shared workspace for Cross Campus professionals, located in downtown Los Angeles, is taking full advantage of the innovative hardware and software capabilities of this manufacturer's Ottocanali amplifiers, providing more powerful sound for your events, with state-of-the-art interconnection and digital controls.

Cross Campus offers professionals and small and medium-sized companies workspaces to carry out their activity on a rental basis.. On its main campus, located in downtown Los Angeles, talks are also held, seminars and events, to which important personalities have attended, from former US president Barak Obama to businessman, physicist and inventor Elon Musk, inter alia.

In order to offer the best possible sound quality at these events, Those responsible for this space contacted Matt Grossman, of Hollywood Sound Systems, who designed a system-wide upgrade with the addition of specialist Ottocanali 8k4 DSP+D amplifiers Powersoft.

One of the requirements that this system had to meet is that it be as interconnected and automated as possible., “they were very explicit that everything was controlled digitally, in such a way that they did not require a designated sound engineer present for most events - explains Grossman -. “We knew we could achieve this with DSP and Dante and we wanted an amplifier that had that functionality embedded.”.

Features found in Powersoft's Ottocanali DSP+D eight-channel amplifier, that in addition to offering 8.000 W a 4Ω, incorporates DSP and Dante capability to meet all Cross Campus audio needs.

Grossman designed an audio system based on two Ottocanali DSP+D amplifiers to power eighteen CDD loudspeakers. Martin Audio (in sizes 5, 6, 8 y 10 inches) y un subwoofer CSX112. For main DSP, two units are used Symetrix Radius 12×8 EX, while a system Shure ULXD4Q provides four wireless microphone input channels, with a fully digital signal path between the microphone input and the stage output of the Ottocanali.

A touch screen controller Crestron offers users access to automated audio programs, system visual and lighting. “Most of their events consist of talking heads and relatively simple technical elements,” Grossman points out.. We have all the sound mixing automated, as well as the detection and correction of feedback, as well as application-specific presets available for any type of event, with default base programming for microphone and monitor volume, background music and lighting, etc”.

Rack space and energy efficiency were also key for this Grossman-designed project., who shares an equipment rack on each floor with the Cross Campus IT department. “The IT demands in a place like this are significant, and all that interconnection equipment takes up a lot of rack space. That left me with sixteen spaces in which to put the entire system, so I needed an amplifier with a small size. Achieving sixteen output channels from the two Ottocanali amplifiers and occupying only four rack spaces in the process was essential”.

In addition to this space problem solved, Another challenge was heat dissipation, “Especially for sharing the space with IT -Grossman emphasizes-. I didn't want to risk burning up all the network equipment. After doing my BTU calculations, It was evident that Powersoft was the best solution: operates practically without giving heat and, at the same time, provides all the output I need and share the rack”.

In addition to the robustness of Ottocanali, includes Powersoft fault tolerance system. “which allows us to have the option of operating a very basic version of the system completely in analog, even in the event of a complete network shutdown. These amplifiers are the only equipment in the system that gives detailed reports on its operation, including specific information about a component that is not functioning properly, or if the amplifier detects that one of my speaker drivers is failing because the correct voltage is not supplied”, this professional points out.

Through Dante, This information can be automatically sent in real time to Grossman's email, “so that in case of any problem, I can call my clients before they call me. Everyone who has tried this system has been really impressed with the sound it offers”.

Proof of this is that those responsible for Cross Campus have selected Powersoft Ottocanali as the standard amplifier for all the spaces that this company has in the United States., and start the process of modernizing them based on this system.