RASTATT, GERMANY—Lawo is on the course with the Golf Channel, as the network has installed three 64-fader mc-2-56 consoles to handle its primary production control rooms for live audio. An additional three 16-fader mc-2-36 consoles have been installed in hybrid live audio and post production rooms.

Beyond the mcfaders, Golf Channel has also installed four Lawo V_pro8 audio/video processors for video and audio channel mapping. The units are extra resources, with a dedicated unit per production control room and a fourth unit wrapped around the core video router.

“When we started this project, our objective was to overhaul our entire audio infrastructure while achieving IP-transport, pooled resources, ease of operation and improved workflows,” said Eric Gardner, Golf Channel’s senior director, engineering and BOC. Gardner says that the combination of Lawo gear has allowed Golf Channel to construct a system that combines audio, video, intercom and commentary into a single solution.

The complete system was installed in December of 2017.

RASTATT, GERMANY—Leipzig University has a new addition to its classrooms in the form of Lawo’s mc236 audio production console. The German-based university installed the Lawo console in the fall of 2016 to provide a professional-grade product for its students to train on.

The 24-fader mc236 has an integrated Waves SoundGrid server that enables access to real-time signal processing options, as well as those provided by the console’s internal DSP engine. This gives students the ability to control reverbs, multi-tap delays, graphic equalizers and multi-band compressors from the console’s keyboard and touchscreen. The mc236 is also equipped with Ravenna/AES67 technology to be integrated into IP infrastructures.

The Lawo system is set up in the school’s Video Studio with the ability to control all audio signals.

In addition, Leipzig adopted Lawo’s mc2 compact I/O stagebox, which provides an additional 32 mic/line inputs, 32 line outputs, eight digital AES3 inputs, eight digital AES3 outputs, eight GPIOs, one Ravenna port and one MADI tie-line port. A Lawo V_pro8 toolbox for processing HD-SDI video and embedding/de-embedding accompanying audio has also been added.