Gearhouse selects Bel Digital for Madi monitoring at the Australian Open
Published: ASIA
AUSTRALIA: A complete broadcast solution including Bel Digital’s BM-A2-64 Madi Monitor was deployed by Gearhouse Broadcast for the recent Australian Open in Melbourne. Gearhouse purchased the monitor to provide assistance with the installation and smooth operation of nine networked audio consoles and associated stage boxes, which were all connected through a central Madi router.
‘We provided our customers with a very resilient audio network for the Australian Open,’ says Gearhouse COO Kevin Moorhouse. ‘The Bel Madi Monitor fulfilled its purpose well within our MCR area.’
The monitor was used extensively during set up to check the quality of the large number of Madi streams in use. During the event, it was located in the Central Engineering Office and connected back to the central audio router. Throughout the tournament, it was again used as a confidence monitor to check the audio content of the Madi streams.
‘Bel’s Madi Monitor provided two very critical and different functions prior to and during the Australian Open,’ explained Barry Revels of Bel Digital. ‘This is something no other unit is capable of doing.’
Gearhouse also deployed over 40 Bel Digital 1U BM-A1-2SHD and eight BM-A1-16SHD audio monitors, to provide audio confidence monitoring throughout the broadcast facility.