Eurovision Song Contest

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RME Audio MADI Router

The MADI Router is a compact device designed to link MADI devices of any manufacturer with unprecedented exibility in signal routing. It provides this exibility

by serving as a format converter between optical and electrical signals, as a signal repeater, and as a distributor and merger of several MADI signals, all at the same time.

The MADI Router combines many advantages of point- to-point audio connections, such as low latency and fast recovery time from signal line interruptions, with the[nbsp] exibility of networked audio connections in which any device has access to any channel available on the network of connected devices.

Solution

Jurgen Vandewalle from Rent-All BV used the new RME MADI Routers for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

„At the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen I was responsible for the live sound reinforcement and audio distribution. In the hall we needed a MADI routing/ distribution system for all the MADI streams among the different mixing desks from WL World, Backtrack, MON-world, FOH and the OB compound.

We used 5 units of the latest RME MADI Router generation. As you can imagine we couldn’t a ord any failures or other malfunctions. RME delivered what I expected and what I am used to. It worked immediately without any setup hassle and continued working[nbsp] awlessly during setup, rehearsal, and main shows. Despite the small LCD screen, RME MADI Routers are very easy to operate.

I didn’t have to check them and could concentrate on all the other things instead.“