VAV INCORPORATES THE NEW OLYMPIA3 DANTE AoIP CU TO THEIR NEW 4K OBvan 20-02-2018

VAV INCORPORATES THE NEW OLYMPIA3 DANTE AoIP CU TO THEIR NEW 4K OBvan

4K Mobile unit #21 broadcasts Spanish first-division football matches,  other big sports events and TV shows even the Spanish Cinema Awards


VAV GROUP is the result of more 20 years of proven experience inside the broadcast market. VAV is a reference Spanish contents producer. VAV GROUP shares its projects among its three business units: VAV Broadcast, VAV Studios y VAV Engineering.

VAV Studios based in Madrid with 6 filming sets for popular spanish and LATAM television series. But the most complex and motivating technical activity is the outside broadcast with OB Vans. 

VAV Broadcast has 5 HD OBvans, and we have recently deployed the new UM 21 in 4K resolution, destined to cover the most important sports events. This unit is equipped with 8 x 4K and 20 x HD cameras in a semi-trailer measuring 11,5 x 2,5 x 4m.


VAV OB Van 4K

 

Audio installation is based on a Dante network, a Calrec Red Hydra mixing console with a SUMMA control surface including 36 + 8 faders, Dolby encoders and Genelec monitors. 

The intercom system has been provided by AEQ-KROMA and comprises a CROSSNET 104 matrix with 64 Dante ports providing service to 16 panels and 12 4-wire analog circuits, offering great operating and work flexibility. 

Using a Dante ecosystem has made the incorporation of OLYMPIA 3, AEQ latest commentary unit, easy. We choose it due to its high performance, convenient integration within our system using Dante AoIP connectivity, and the possibility of operating as a commentary unit and intercom panel simultaneously. 

OLYMPIA 3 can send and receive audio to/from any Dante-enabled device. It could have been directly connected to the Calrec console, but it is more flexible for us to use the CROSSNET 104 intercom matrix as an intermediate routing system. 

CrossNET Intercom System

Audio is mixed inside the commentary unit, so it is delivered to the Dante network already mixed. Some signals such as return, commentator intercom with the studio and OBvan control, as well as some general audios such as PA and TV event/program sound, are sent from the Calrec console through the CROSSNET matrix.  Besides, OLYMPIA 3 makes easy the task of getting the individual sound directly from each microphone.

OLYMPIA 3 has great audio processing capabilities as well: each input features a compressor / limiter to avoid potential audio clipping, a 4-band equalizer and noise gates with pre-sets. This way, great broadcast audio quality is obtained in the most hostile and noisy environments, as in motorbike races for example. 

Another interesting feature of the OLYMPIA 3 is that commentator 1 channel can operate in the so-called “Intercom mode”, which turns it into one more panel in the mobile unit’s general intercom system, with identical performance and configuration as the rest of panels. This makes the start-up phases easier to us.

VAV Broadcast has known AEQ Commentary Units for a long time, as they are present in all Olympic games and other events. However, what makes OLYMPIA 3 so special is that it can operate in standalone mode without requiring connection to an audio matrix, supported by the PC control application, and using any Dante-enable device in the OB van as the routing device.

AEQ Olympia 3

3 AEQ EAGLE audiocodec and an AEQ TH03 hybrid have been reused, and despite having being on duty in other mobile units for more than 10 years, they are still in great operating order.

Thanks to the collaboration between these two companies (AEQ-KROMA and VAV), OLYMPIA 3 has gained more and more features and has better adapted to the demanding real requirements of the broadcast market.

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