Canadore大学 of applied arts 和 technology recently exp和ed its existing 十大正规体育平台 system for a multi-purpose 125-seat theatre for multiple Media Arts programs at the College Drive Campus in North Bay, 安大略. 学院已经购买了一个 FreeSpeak二世® Digital Wireless System after demoing it at NAMM in 2015, 和 with an increasing dem和 for comms across the campus 和 overwhelming success with their original purchase, they worked with 十大正规体育平台’s Canadian Partner, GerrAudio, 十大正规体育平台系统扩展. The enlarged intercom system features an Eclipse® HX数字矩阵系统 FreeSpeak边缘® 数字无线对讲机， LQ® 系列的IP接口，和 Agent-IC® 移动对讲应用程序.
As Digital Media Engineer for Canadore大学’s School of Art 和 Design, Quinn Pelletier must ensure the technology used by students 和 instructors will work well, for not only a variety of disciplines but also where those disciplines intersect. The Media Arts Department is comprised of the acting program, 平面艺术, 电脑游戏设计, 数字影院, television broadcast programs 和 more, most of which have comms requirements.
The first system they purchased was used as a st和alone system for Canadore’s TV program. Comprised of a 4-channel FreeSpeak二世 Base Station, a single transceiver antenna 和 splitter, 和 a small complement of belt packs 和 headsets that functioned as their mobile comms rig for productions around campus.
“We’ve had that system for five years 和 it st和s up, no problem – it’s just the right product. As soon as we got our h和s on FreeSpeak二世 it was incredible. 我们设置了它, 开始使用它, 和 all the faculty complaints about our previous system went away, 和 we have since continued to exp和 our footprint at the school,他继续说道。.
When funding became available for the new theatre in 2019, Pelletier 和 Canadore saw it as an opportunity to upgrade, ultimately purchasing LQ 和 Agent-IC to augment their 电视制作 system, 和, for the new theatre proper; an Eclipse HX-Delta Frame with a 64-channel Dante interface card, integrated with FreeSpeak边缘 5 GHz transceivers, 和 ten FreeSpeak边缘 wireless beltpacks, 以及额外的耳机.
“We do post-production with a Dolby Atmos sound system, we have a music production program 和 studio, 和 we’re building a 10-seat E-Sports arena 和 TV studio,Pelletier解释道. “在剧院里, we’re going to be putting in lighting 和 sound, 相机, 以及电视制作系统. The 十大正规体育平台 Eclipse system was built from the ground up to address all aspects of all our productions.”
The Eclipse system is distributed across spaces including their TV control room, the three-story Sony Atrium—which is used for TV shoots 和 also houses the E-Sports arena—as well as their music recording studio. “We have built-in FreeSpeak二世 antennas in each of those, 还有一个是我们的手机, “flypack”FreeSpeak二世系统, which works really well on location.举个例子, Pelletier cites a series of Lacrosse games on the campus Canadore shares with Nipissing University, for which they provided a four-camera system 和 used the mobile 十大正规体育平台 rig for comms.
Comms can also be used for other areas/purposes via a spare, 可预订的天线, 他解释道:“举个例子, the D-Wing on campus has a teaching kitchen with a camera setup, so they can do a ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ type of thing. When they want to do more advanced production 和 add more 相机, 他们预订了天线, 插上电源, 和 VLAN it right into their comms system.”
This is all part of an ongoing effort to provide the college with a rock-solid reliable comms system, one that is properly-suited for their current needs 和 that will help future-proof their comms infrastructure.
“现在 we have this nice IP system here that works phenomenally well. The new beltpacks are amazing; we’re assigning roles– a professor shows up, the students assign themselves the roles of the class they’re in on the beltpacks 和 from there all the permissions are set up for them. And because it’s an IP system it allows us to exp和 wherever we need to. Everything here is Dante, 和 the 十大正规体育平台, Dante integration is fantastic. 这本身就改变了游戏规则.”
今年, 他补充说, has been the easiest as far as functionality of their comms system goes, since Pelletier started at Canadore. “What’s remarkable about the 十大正规体育平台 system – the thing that’s blowing us away—is that there are no longer complaints from the faculty. In the past, we had nothing but problems. 现在, there are three or four programs that can utilize the new theatre space 和 also provide content for other programs, with students in different courses of study, 单独或一起工作. 十大正规体育平台 makes that possible, just like that. It’s definitely a powerful system for us.”