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RAVENNA Networking joins Ravenna Festival with Lawo

28/10/2016

RAVENNA Networking joins Ravenna Festival with Lawo posted: 28/10/2016

Staged across the Italian city that bears its name, the Ravenna Festival ranks high among Europe's most prestigious events. Adding another edge to its character, the 2016 event relied heavily on the use of RAVENNA IP networking for its audio operation.

The Ravenna Festival hosts performing arts in venues including the Pala de Andr indoor sports arena and Dante Alighieri theater - where a Lawo mc 36 mixing console, Compact I/O Stagebox and RAVENNA formed the heart of a powerful and flexible network.

BH Audio - providing sound reinforcement rental and recording facilities for classical and contemporary music - is the longstanding audio service provider for the festival. For 2016, Mediacare Audiovisuals also came onboard. The connection between BH Audio and Mediacare is me,' says BH Audio partner Massimo Carli. I'm one of the five founders of BH audio and the founder of MediaCare Audiovisual.

Lawo mc 36 mixing console

Two years ago, MediaCare undertook an installation project for the sound in the Teatro Dante Alighieri where I identified Lawo's mc 36 as the perfect console for the theater's needs, he continues. Then at ProLight & Sound in Frankfurt I spoke to the Lawo team about BH Audio, and suggested using a Lawo system at the festival and at Riccardo Muti's Academy courses, as well as for the final show at the festival, staged at the Dante Alighieri theater.

The choice also triggered the use of RAVENNA networking technology for the first time when Carli contacted Lawo's Italian distributor, Aret Engineering. The use of RAVENNA was not so complicated, Carli says. I needed just one Compact I/O interface and Cat-6 cabling for the RAVENNA link. The great thing was being able to have 128 inputs and 128 outputs on a single Cat-6 cable.

Aret Engineering and demonstrator/trainer Massimiliano Salin carried out the initial setup, and then held an intensive two-day training course at the venue, after which Carli was able to carry out all the work at the Pala de Andr and the Academy without any problems. After using more or less the same set-up for the past three years at the venue, the first thing that struck me was the sound, says Carli. We'd used a top-grade analogue desk in the past, so the comparison wasn't between products of a different level, and we hadn't changed PA or microphones, but we immediately noticed the difference in timbre.

Pala de Andr indoor sports arena

If the RAVENNA networking was straightforward, the demands placed on the console and networking by the Ravenna Festival were considerable. In a standard orchestral concert in the Pala de Andr , we usually have between 60 and 80 players and use 25-to-30 mics, Carli explains. For the concert, conducted by Maestro Muti with big orchestra, all was different. We had a double orchestra - one Italian and one from Japan - that played in all the sections. This meant about 120 players, along with a children's choir and a banda [a brass-based traditional Mexican musical style] fanfare. There were a total of 400 people on stage. This concert was also recorded by RAI TV, so I got 64 channels from the Compact I/O via MADI and I added 28 more mics - in total, I used 92 mics.

The Lawo mc 36 is a RAVENNA/AES67-based, all-in-one mixing desk with a comprehensive feature set that is ideal for use in theaters, houses of worship, live sound and installed sound. I was impressed by the console software's flexibility, which gives absolute freedom to set it up just as I want, with patching possibilities not normally possible with live consoles, Carli says. The mc 36 is the perfect system for this kind of event. I realized that it would have made the difference on several jobs I did after returning it - not only from the point of view of sound, but also the system's setup and flexibility.

The festival also gave Carli the chance to continue testing a secret 3D sound processor, as the mc 36 was connected via RAVENNA over Cat6 to the Compact I/O Stagebox and via MADI to the processor. I have been testing this processor for three years, he says. It is based on Wave Field Synthesis, but with many extra solutions that distinguish it from other WFS processors on the market. The company developing that system do not want to be public until it is finished - the plan is to be ready for launching in 2018.

Teatro Alighieri

There are many reasons for choosing Lawo; two are particularly important, Carli reflects. One is the company's philosophy - they choose to work with the RAVENNA open protocol. I have been a fan of open source technology for a long time, not for financial reasons but for philosophical reasons. Sharing our knowledge allows us to grow faster and better. The second reason is the fact that Lawo systems are really stable and reliable.

During rehearsals for the concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, his wife Cristina came to the FOH platform and asked me what we'd changed, as the system seemed to sound better than usual, and when Muti asked how the sound was, Cristina told him it was because I was using a new audio console.

The Ravenna Festival

Established in 1990, the Ravenna Festival offers an extremely varied program of music and performing arts every year from May to July, when the city of Ravenna becomes a stage for two months bringing its gilded basilicas, historical theatres, its cloisters, gardens, squares and ancient buildings back to life.

These extraordinary places, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites, are a reminder of the city's history as an ancient imperial capital. The Festival's artistic directors, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Franco Masotti and Angelo Nicastro, yearly define a rich program centered on a culturally and artistically relevan
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