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The audio system in our badminton club slash gaming center was built with blood,

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sweat and tears. Well hopefully not blood. Oh god so much blood.

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He's not wrong though and the worst part is all the blood was for absolutely nothing!

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What? You know this! See it turns out that all of our wall mounted speakers are defective

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and after waiting four months for replacement hey Dan what's that? Our asset tag.

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The ones that were on the exact speakers that were sent back to the vendor unrepaird.

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Adding insult to injury when Q-SYS the manufacturer that's behind the brain of our sound system

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saw our last video they were compelled to get on a plane and come all the way out here to say

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paging Linus good first attempt but I think we can do better together thank you legitimately thank

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In fairness to us this is a very challenging environment see in a big box like this

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the sound waves are just begging to bounce around and if you need to issue important announcements

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people need to be able to understand them and understanding is only going to get harder

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when we fill this place up with 250 plus gamers for all nighter land sessions

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But good news everyone because thanks to the power of Dave we've done it this bad boy right

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here handles everything from paging to background to even being able to handle audio for our stage

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Oh and let's get a message from our sponsor while a PA system might not seem that complex

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or exciting it's worth considering that this facility is not just one big box but rather it

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is several big boxes we have two sets of quartz a lounge a pro shop a cafeteria a gym and then two

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separate washrooms all of which need to be able to be individually addressed or addressed as groups

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and in a manner that is not confusing for our front desk staff we want anyone who works here

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to be able to confidently use this system so with over 30 speakers and seven zones not to mention

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two businesses that literally only I would ever think to put in the same building keeping things

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simple has a lot of backend complexity this is the solution that Dan cooked up using Q-SYS designer

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it's well kind of terrifying that is where Dave from Q-SYS comes in you know it's not bad considering

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yourself Todd I'm impressed you got something functional but we could do better yeah thanks

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to Q-SYS training I was able to kind of get acquainted with the system and learn everything

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that I needed to to get this up immediately and we have been using it which is like a testament to Dan

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this is a real interface it has buttons and everything but let's look at what decades of

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experience could do to refine it up in our top corners where we have all of our inputs come into

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the system and we decide to monitor everything as it's coming in with live audio meter so we can

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see what's going on right how much signal we got in where we want to distribute it and that's the

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same as I have here right right this is your this is your Dante input it totally looks the same

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well it was a yellow block shut up it actually copied your block to start over see I did a good

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he got me started yeah this here is where any of the Dante audio streams come into the system

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however rather than do spaghetti wiring all throughout we would just assign them with

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tagged names that can go anywhere we need to within the sound system and they're all color

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coded so we can follow along cool okay so that means that my usb-c in one is right here yeah

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exactly super cool what are we looking at in the purple zone down in our purple zone here this is

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where we're doing our music processing where we can switch between having music be more background

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or being more in your face death by music got it we've created two separate streams of background

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music if we have a LAN event on one side and badminton on the other side we can have two

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different background paths that will go serve the necessary areas got it oh hey look I can read labels

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so the next one is microphones exactly these are microphones that the staff can take out onto

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the court and they're able to just make an announcement this comes up a lot especially

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during our competitive ladder events and tournaments when things are a fair bit more busy than they are

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right now and the coolest part is you're not going to get any feedback because we've processed the

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audio directly for each microphone including a dynamic notch feedback controller at the end

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of the chain that will constantly monitor for standing wave patterns and make sure that we

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curve them out of the audio spectrum that is so cool and so theoretically if people like

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saw your layout here could they like do something like this absolutely so can you click on a

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notch feedback controller like what did you configure in the oh god okay so as long as

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they're also a wizard and they see your layout here then they could do all of this this actually

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is going to monitor for itself it has dynamic filters that will apply to solve a problem and

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then after 30 seconds it will go away because that microphone is going to move around the court

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and be in a different spot every time first in first out it's a cue not that I don't believe

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him but here let's give it a shot wow that's actually pretty cool I am getting no feedback

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whatsoever no matter where I move in the court and hey harry how's it sound

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nice what if I wasn't yelling can you can you still hear me okay if I'm just talking into the

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mic heck yeah oh it doesn't blow out people's ears either you've probably got some cool gating

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stuff on it and stuff we got some stuff he's got all this stuff guys like gate keep girl boss

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I'm so psyched because like whenever I have to take attendance and stuff for ladder night I'm

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always like yelling at everybody this is going to be great now I can yell at people with amplification

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check this out lady this is our new interface is it actually as simple as it looks I don't know

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let's see hello that's awesome yeah and you can do background music and stuff too

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oh that's good can you connect to your phone to play the background music can connect to

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basically anything on the face of the earth oh wow but let's show let's let's talk about the music

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now Dan's implementation for background music was pretty cool it had what he calls automatic

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ducking so when you start talking you don't have to compete with the background music it'll it'll

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come down can you do that oh we did that and we did more sorry Dan Dan is using one of those

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super cool little bluetooth Dante adapters Dante is an incredible ecosystem man you can plug freaking

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anything into it and out of it so whether it's like bluetooth or xlr in or a three and a half

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millimeter jack you just need one of these little PoE adapters so he's playing bluetooth audio off

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of his phone over at the reception and then we're going to try out the ducking when I try to

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and dude this is going to be great for lans because we've got the ability to out of moments notice

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you like shut up the tournaments now everybody pay attention and it's freaking loud even when

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in front of the speaker we get no feedback is that awesome or what another cool thing is when

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we're in background music mode we're not just adjusting the volume of the music right we're

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actually processing it differently and pulling out some of the frequencies from the music which

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is where our human conversation tends to live right so it's easier to just talk over it and

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tune it out so you can actually bring more music into the area without making people have to scream

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to understand each other it's the same way you hear different instruments in the orchestra

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or how you hear different parts of a musical when they're singing in harmony with each other

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you can have more things going on and still understand them but wait there's more I assume

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I don't actually know that for sure is there more there's always more now is the part where

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we talk about zone management and we actually get this thing hooked up because as I was walking

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over here one of the smash champs staff came up to me and was like hey so is it working we haven't

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been able to use the mic all day we really need it which shows you again Dan shout out Dan how

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important it was the stuff that Dan did and not worthless one of the other neat things is we just

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had this plugged in the court now it's plugged in here it'll reassign itself you can plug it in

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anywhere oh dude that is so cool isn't that neat yes because all of these have internal IDs and so

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any port anywhere including on whale land we can put anything in this building and we could put a

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speaker we could put a microphone we could put the bluetooth adapter do we have more than one of those

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as many as you want would they would they like sync the settings or no they would just address

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whoever they're set to address oh how much he gets it uh oh damn I knew there was a catch

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it starts with four digits but they're metal and they're PoE dude that's so cool I kind of

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teased this before but here's the zones 101 and 102 means the two different sides of the badminton

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hall then we've got the pro shop concession washrooms lounge and fitness area we've also

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got some super convenient grouping buttons that make it really quick to page the entire facility or

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just the common areas and not the courts for instance system setup is only really needed

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when we're running LAN events and we want to switch out of all badminton mode and finally

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scheduling announcements is going to be really nice for the staff here because as it is now

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they have to have notifications on their phones for okay it's five minutes till the end of the

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session hey everyone it's five minutes till the end of session blah blah blah they have to do that

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manually every time well now we can just have little pre-recorded messages that we can play and

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say hey get off it's five minutes from the end since we're getting set up can you kill the chime

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and we'll just have it go instantly we can do that okay should replace it with like a klaxon

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no no no discord notifications oh what if it's like the iphone

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okay no no and no but in all seriousness now that this is set up is there any reason that someone

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like Dan with just a little bit of experience couldn't go in and just make little changes like that

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it's super easy to just drop in an audio file of whatever chime you want to have select that from

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absolutely my understanding is you could build an interface specifically for that say you know

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they're doing their hourly reminders we could just change those out as a simplified version for the

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staff we can build those in as an automated macro command and we can trigger those off of

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time-based events easily every networking people get excited about networking is actually pretty cool

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what if it would if it said hey little thing let me let you get up oh la come on i have a

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lesson my dad's ever now please move to the other court yeah networking's fun yeah while we were

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waiting i wanted to check out this cool interface thing and Dan was explaining it to me and then

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he broke it classic Dan okay yeah so what is this these are the little unify like vision

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portly things that allow you to just PoE HDMI out and then you can send a security camera feed and

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build your own little like uh views and then you can have them rotate through like you can see some

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of them doing that looks what's it called these are the unified viewports now one of the things

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i thought was really cool was that you've got this themed for our colors so it doesn't look like that

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in there no if i just copy the controls over onto the user interface yeah this is what they look like

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to start it's all just kind of gray and white and very small font and stuff however with q-sis we

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can actually use css just like web designers would to create a style sheet for the entire user

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interface so i built you a little css and if we go when we were to apply it to our to our touch

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panel over here we add our line is smash jams haza theoretically everything is live theoretically

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yes check check in the pro shop oh wow that is uh okay i asked him to juice it a little bit

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he did do that hey roge if you guys want a deeper look at the hardware side of all the networking

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that this is running on then i recommend checking out this video here in a nutshell it's pretty much

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all ubiquity which when we installed it did not have proper support for daunte and q-sis but now

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thanks to the power of ubiquity being genuinely kind of bros it all works and it's out of beta now

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okay pro shop and concession are now working and they sound good they sound good okay should we be

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testing the courts with everybody out there ah screw it paging all smash jams patrons we have

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updated our audio system to be louder and easier to understand that is all

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terrific that's actually way more attention than they usually pay to the announcements people

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get pretty focused on their games but on the subject of being focused on your gaming how's

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it going to handle the lan event thanks again to q-sis for helping us get the audio set up for this

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event now i guess the only thing that remains is this segue you guys are great if you guys

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enjoyed this video maybe go check out the previous one where we showed all of the physical aspects

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of the networking both for the badminton club and for our lands shout out Dan and the info team

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for getting all of the bones laid for all of this and shout out david for coming out and getting

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