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Brock kicked off the clinic by explaining how expensive it is to wire anything in an analog realm, and how much equipment and wiring it would take to run 64 channels, from TT patch cables to splitter boxes and everything in between.
What the Dante Protocol offers is an inexpensive way to move audio in realtime with better latency and accuracy. We learned that after installing a Dante virtual software soundcard it turns your ethernet jack on your laptop into a Dante interface and can even co-exist on another network with other data. Dante gives you the capability to send 512 channels of audio on one single gigabit ethernet cable. Which in turn is extremely cheap cabling when compared to wiring anything analog. Dante is hands down the most efficient way to send and receive audio signals.
Brock also brought up the Focusrite Rednet boxes which is basically an analog to dante converter. Dante protocols give you the option to control and match latency levels amongst different signals coming in.
All in all, we gained an immense amount of knowledge about a protocol that most know very little about. Which, in a way, will give us an upper-hand on the industry when we step foot into our internships.
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