Location: Hylton Memorial Chapel  Woodbridge, Virginia  USA

The Hylton Memorial Chapel hosts a wide variety of public, private and ticketed events using its main facility with 3,500 seats sanctuary along with 190 seat wedding chapel, reception, multipurpose room and nursery.

System Integrator: Greg Lukens, Washington Professional Systems

Challenge: A full scale renovation that involved a $1.5 million sound system upgrade. Keeping an eye for the future, it was important in this installation that the audio networking solution be scalable, ease to install and future proof.

Solution: Use a PM5D for Front of House which was connected to 8 AES inputs on the primary Dolby Lake Processor. This processor was networked with 4 other processors using Dante over standard Ethernet cables. One of these processors was at the end of a 300-foot Cat 5 run up in the balcony. This was not an issue because of Dante.

Setting up the Dante network was “undaunting” Luken reports. “All we did was turn the processors on and connect them…I think it took us longer to plug in the Cat 5 cables than it [Dante] did to configure the network”.

The Dante audio networking solution because it is a digital networking made installation extremely easy and with significantly reduced cabling cost. Plus, the fact that Dante is a scalable solution that can works on both 100Mb and Gigabit networks and support newer technologies standards were crucial in cinching the deal for Washington Professional Systems.

Benefits and Savings:

• Very easy configuration of the network
• Recording on the PC with the use on Dante Virtual Soundcard
• Significantly reduced cabling costs as compared to analog cables
• Scalable future proof solution

Details: Read the article that appeared in Live Sound International and ProSoundWeb.com.