Georg Danzer, one of Austria’s most famous singers/songwriters celebrated his 60 birthday giving a concert with his band and some friends in the sold out Vienna town hall F.

As a long time front of house engineer and technical director of Georg Danzer, it was up to me to decide the technical solutions for this outstanding event. With all the great experiences I have made with EtherSound networked audio, there was never any doubt about using EtherSound. Using the resources of InPhase, I used two Yamaha PM5D, as front of house and monitor console. Both consoles where fitted with 3 Auvitran AVY16-ES cards with newest firmware 0x103 loaded. 6 Yamaha AD8HR witted with Auvitran AVKit-ES where used as converters between the incoming analogue signals from the microphones and the digital network. Connection between stage and front of house was established by two fiber optics cables, utilizing Auvitran’s redundant link manager AVRed-ES, loaded with the new firmware 0x403. A Windows XP pc, running the ES-monitor software from Auvitran, was connected to the front of house console, used to manage the EtherSound network. A Digigram ES8out was used to provide the 6 balanced analogue line level feeds to drive the venue's sound system, consisting of a couple of Meyer Milo's and some CQ-2 and UPM speakers. A Nexo GeoD system was used additionally, to complete the house sound system. The GeoD was driven by Camco Vortex 6 amps and controlled by Nexo NX242 fitted with NXtension-ES cards. Of course these controllers were connected digitally to the Ethersound network, to receive audio fully digital without any quality loss. As usual I used Luminex Gigaswitch to distribute the EtherSound network physically.

As this concert was a very unique event, it was absolutely necessary to record the show on a high quality multitrack system. I decided to use the advantages of the EtherSound network also for the audio recording. I set up a 19" industry pc, fitted with the newly available Digigram LX6464-ES, to record the show using Steinberg’s Nuendo 3. We recorded a total of 48 tracks simultaneously without having any problems at all.

As usual, the entire EtherSound network worked perfectly, the recording is stored well on the hard disks, waiting to be mixed.

It was a great evening.