NEP Deploys Calrec Consoles At South West London Tennis Venue

Viewers around the world enjoyed premium quality audio while watching Wimbledon 2019 with NEP UK deploying 15 Calrec consoles at the South West London tennis venue, alongside extensive Calrec networking and routing technology and I/O boxes.
An additional three Calrec consoles were used in NEP OB trucks that covered Centre Court, Court One and Court Two.
Jimmy
Parkin, Sound Engineer, NEP Broadcast Services, said: “We have worked
extensively with Calrec over the years. The networking flexibility and
easy scalability of their technology were central to the success of this
Wimbledon 2019 project. We needed audio operators to be able to easily
access any source from any court without having to move anything or plug
anything in; any console can ‘talk’ with any other console on the
network. We also needed to integrate IP networks with Calrec’s Hydra 2
networking technology and using their interfaces made this very easy.
Pre-event offsite planning, using Calrec’s H2O GUI for the Hydra 2
network, meant that we could accurately name and label ports before any
hardware was connected.”
For the second year, the host
broadcaster was Wimbledon Broadcast Services (WBS). The video network
was all IP (SMPTE ST2110) with Calrec consoles connected to this host
broadcast network. Eleven Calrec consoles – 10 Summa and one Brio – were
deployed across this, including consoles for the Wimbledon Channel and
the media centre.
In addition, NEP worked with a major US
broadcaster for their coverage, including streaming, using an additional
three Calrec consoles – two Artemis and one Brio – in their three
control rooms.
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