Stage Tec AURUS platinum Mobile and Flexible in NEP's MusicOne Audio Truck
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A collaboration of the NEP R&D team, audio engineers and music industry professionals worked together to develop the specifications for the truck and quickly decided on the AURUS platinum from Berlin-based manufacturer of professional audio equipment Stage Tec. The 48-fader mixing console offers three internal base units for connecting ample outboard, multitrack and play-out. IP SMPTE 2110 technology integrates a NEXUS network into the broadcast IP backbone. This is a particularly handy feature when the audio truck is equipped with a video flypack and can then be used as an OBV for other broadcast or live events. The NEXUS is completed with 2 mobile racks, each with 64 mic + return lines in various formats.
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Sharing a mobile rack pool is standard, as is multichannel 5.1.4 and 22.1. Stage Tec does not use DSP bus limiting which results in always using the full 40-bit floating point without shifting processing power to get more inputs. The result is better and consistent "clarity" when mixing a variety of sources on the bus. Stage Tec's TrueMatch® inputs, with a dynamic range of 158 dB, are the absolute top-notch of currently available technology. They do not require any analog preamplification at all, which contributes significantly to noise reduction, especially when summing many channels. Without analog signal amplification, de facto every microphone becomes a digital microphone. An advantage the NEP audio team definitely appreciates.
The MusicOne is being used successfully on a weekly basis for both concerts and television shows but also enhanced audio of Dutch Champions League matches.