Ben-Hur in Sydney (ANZ Stadium): audio transport by EtherSound

Production: Stade de France Live Events
Audio technical management: GL Events Audiovisual

Staff:      F.Viricel (sound technical director GL-Events)

               J.Lyonnet (Sound system designer/engineer)

               S.Puteaux (engineer in charge of Wireless transmission)

               P.Mourdon (engineer in charge of Ethersound Network)

Products involved: L-Acoustics amplifiers connected to EtherSound via Digigram ES8out , Yamaha stageboxes and consoles, AuviTran AVM500-ES matrixes -Full control through AuviTran ESMonitor software

The stadium-scaled Ben-Hur was performed in the Olympic ANZ Stadium of Sydney on October 22d and 23th 2010: two succesful live shows performed in a stadium of 80 000 seats.

Audio distribution was planned and achived other EherSound network (Ethernet and Optical links): 32 line array clusters were connected and two AuviTran AVM500-ES matrixes allowed a highly robust star architecture.

Main user advantages as explained by Philippe Mourdon

• system reliability (EtherSound was the unique audio transmission link)
• routing flexibility allowed by AVM500-ES and ESMonitor
• redundancy allowed by port A of the AVM500-ES
• diagnostic tools in ESMonitor
• AuviTran quality and reactivity of support

Audio distribution architecture

Rehersal  - AVM500 control page

Show time

The GL Events sound dream team 

(from left to right: P. Mourdon - J. Lyonnet, S. Putaux - F.Viricel) 

Photo credits: Philippe Mourdon and Jean Lyonnet