WEBVTT 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:05.560 wait that's my 00:00:07.880 --> 00:00:15.400 carit whether it's calling my order number my court reservation or my 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:17.039 license plate number I can never 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:21.480 understand what they're saying over the PA system surely in a world where 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:26.480 headphones can be Wireless and we can cancel out background noise on a zoom 00:00:23.439 --> 00:00:28.240 call like magic it can't be that hard to 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:33.920 build a building speaker setup that's actually clear oh yes 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:37.440 can but we can do it right I mean of 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:40.000 course but first we have to seg to our 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:45.280 sponsor Ridge start your holiday shopping now and save big during ridge's 00:00:42.239 --> 00:00:46.719 Black Friday sale get up to 47% off by 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:51.239 going through our Link in the description today right now actually 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:57.800 when we first checked out this space the echo in here was absolutely 00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:01.519 mindblowing but as you can hear it's quite a lot better now we've talked 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:05.760 before about how we've sound treated our studio our lab and even our Workshop to 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:09.600 keep Reverb and other unpleasantness out of our recordings and we started with a 00:01:07.759 --> 00:01:14.479 pretty similar approach here at our badminton gymland gaming center which by 00:01:12.520 --> 00:01:17.960 the way huge update we heard back from the city we're actually going to be able 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.119 to do wh land let's go starting with the ceilings we switched away from our usual 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:26.520 cellulose-based sprayon foam and went with a fiberglass sprayon acoustic 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:29.920 treatment it does still add a little bit of insulation which is always a good 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:33.360 thing but the most important fact factors were the fact that it goes on a 00:01:31.479 --> 00:01:38.479 little thinner it's a little easier to paint so we didn't end up with that ugly 00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:42.799 color from the lab again and maybe most importantly it is less susceptible to 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:47.320 damage and mold in the event that moisture seeps into it this stuff is 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:52.000 great because its paracity and uneven surface act to absorb and Scatter any 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:55.159 incoming sound waves significantly reducing Reflections between the floor 00:01:54.399 --> 00:02:00.360 and the ceiling but unfortunately we couldn't 00:01:58.479 --> 00:02:06.560 spray that material all the Way Down the Walls and expect it to hold up to flying 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.080 birdies bags and bodies or even just 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:14.040 people getting bored and picking the foam off the walls while they wait for their next match fortunately the 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:19.000 solution was right under our noses or rather our backs we already had our eye 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:22.599 on these gym mats to provide a sturdy but comfortable back rest for folks who 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:26.680 are sitting on our customized storage friendly benches and as it turns out 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.519 they do a pretty solid job of attenuating many of the problem 00:02:28.239 --> 00:02:35.239 frequencies that like to Bounce Around forever in a space like this so two 00:02:32.959 --> 00:02:39.519 birdies one stone and all of that the multi-layer sprung floor and foam and 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:43.640 vinyl topper that we installed also contribute to Echo reduction but not as 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:47.080 much as the other factors to demonstrate how effective this ended up being 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.959 instead of using my lab microphone we're going to switch over to the iPhone 16 00:02:49.040 --> 00:02:54.720 plus that Jordan's holding over there back when we started you wouldn't have 00:02:52.560 --> 00:03:00.840 been able to make out a bloody word that I was saying from back here but now it's 00:02:57.519 --> 00:03:02.760 downright usable not great 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:06.640 but useable we're starting off in a much better place but before we can start 00:03:04.959 --> 00:03:10.080 blasting Amplified sound into our big concrete Cavern we need to make some 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:14.280 careful considerations to make sure that every visitor can hear about the limited 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:19.640 time offer on left-handed badminton rackets oo while also keeping the system 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:25.080 intuitive and customizable for staff now there's a lot of options out there but 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:27.159 for a variety of reasons a lot of them 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:32.280 won't work for us for starters there's the traditional PA these are affordable 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.879 super easy to set up I mean all you need is a hammer microphone a cable a mixer 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:42.640 and it doesn't need to be a fancy one like this and a powered speaker and boom 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.319 you're off to the races in fact it's pretty intelligible all the way from 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:51.040 this end of the facility to the other the only problem is in order to make it 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:57.519 so that Jordan can hear what Dan's saying go ahead Dan hey Jordan how you 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:03.200 doing you're basically blasting my ears off it's not balanced can you hear this 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:07.760 okay Jordan yes yes we can hear you I mean I think Jordan can barely hear this 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:12.560 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah thank you Dan obviously we could relocate this entire 00:04:10.079 --> 00:04:16.759 setup pretty easily for better balance or we could wire up the entire facility 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:21.280 with audio cable and have it all come back to a central location but that's 00:04:19.359 --> 00:04:26.160 going to cost us inflexibility because the best place for let's say a 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.000 tournament draw desk or for a land knock 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:32.639 are not necessarily going to be the same places we needed more flexibility 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:37.000 another option was a constant voltage system they're commonly 70 volts in 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:40.479 North America and 100 volts in Europe but the voltage isn't important what's 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:44.360 important is you have a bunch of in seiling speakers that'll look kind of 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:48.039 like this and they'll run background music the occasional announcement that 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:52.199 sort of thing this is typically what you'll find in doctor's offices 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:56.680 classrooms restaurants and the like these systems can cover long distances 00:04:54.360 --> 00:05:01.600 with very thin inexpensive wire thanks to their high voltage but are not known 00:04:59.080 --> 00:05:06.479 to have great sound quality certainly not worthy of crab Rave and besides what 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:11.560 is this the Stone Age why wouldn't we use Ethernet with Ethernet we can have 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:16.039 high fidelity audio we don't have to run snakes and low voltage audio cables we 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:19.960 can just use standard network cabling and that means we can put speakers all 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:24.840 over the place keeping each individual speaker relatively quiet improving 00:05:22.039 --> 00:05:29.720 Clarity also theoretically because it's Ethernet we can use switching to kind of 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.199 tap into it from anywhere and have modul CL ity and configurability so you can 00:05:31.919 --> 00:05:36.840 address one side of the building the other side of the building or the whole 00:05:34.919 --> 00:05:42.160 freaking building there's only one small problem everyone and their dog has their 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:48.400 own platform and protocols that are various degrees of proprietary that is 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:51.400 what we thought until Dan found Dante 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:53.240 which is built on previous AOE and aoip 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:57.240 Tech some of the key benefits of Dante are it's a uncompressed high quality 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:00.759 audio it's easy to install and expand it scales really well it's got wide 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:04.080 manufacturer support there's about 350 companies that are licensed right now 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:07.280 and typically it's only supported by higher end audio gear oh I knew there 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:12.560 was going to be a catch yeah you pay the Dante tax um but Dante controller lets 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:18.080 you configure the routing and you wanted modularity and ease of use yeah ease of 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:22.039 use was pretty big uh we want it to be something that any random staffer can 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:25.639 use or that something I don't want to be here when there's a little problem or to 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:31.720 change the levels or anything like that especially because it could be at a land at 3 in the morning exactly can we 00:06:28.919 --> 00:06:35.520 configure it for like one button presets I'll show you what I've done good Lord I 00:06:33.880 --> 00:06:41.280 thought you said this was simple we ended up going with CIS mostly because 00:06:37.960 --> 00:06:42.800 of the end of it is simple but setting 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:46.840 it up in the configuration is what makes it complicated I've always said you need 00:06:44.840 --> 00:06:50.919 complexity to make things simple to get the one button and to get it easy for 00:06:48.599 --> 00:06:56.120 staff and to get it configurable we have to have this mess of nodes and uh flows 00:06:54.319 --> 00:07:00.479 and things like that especially as we've got loads of end points we have about 30 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:04.960 speakers we have wireless microphones and maybe we do want to do a traditional 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:09.160 PA when we do Lands cool but theoretically it works it does it's in 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:16.400 production right now uh they've been using it for the afternoon badminton uh 00:07:12.479 --> 00:07:19.160 sessions okay oh wow so it's working 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:23.479 then yes both mics work at the same time maybe a little loud here wow that's cool 00:07:21.479 --> 00:07:27.319 and I've made it so that the volume of the mics is adjustable so it balances 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:31.319 the level so it keeps everything consistent so Linus can scream and 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:35.960 nervous land participants who have just won something and get to talk to their 00:07:32.840 --> 00:07:37.840 Idol um it's all a very consistent level 00:07:35.960 --> 00:07:41.960 show me how we can cordin off a section and turn it off right here I've got 00:07:39.599 --> 00:07:46.879 these volume ramps and so by toggling off you know the courts or the bathrooms 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:51.440 or something like that it'll take a section of speakers and dim them down to 00:07:49.039 --> 00:07:54.720 nothing or bring them back up the other thing is I didn't want a traditional 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:58.680 mute button because say you're playing music in the background you unmute it 00:07:56.840 --> 00:08:02.159 the whole courts get blasted so it's even got a ramp up time as well so when 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:06.759 you unmute it it comes up nice and softly and slowly and then ramps up to 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:11.159 where it needs to be it's great okay in the long term could we have like a 00:08:08.520 --> 00:08:14.800 little I don't know a stream deck or something where you could like toggle on 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:19.000 different sections of the building exactly right now I have it set for the 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:23.479 courts to be toggleable and we could eventually do that for any Zone that we 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:26.840 want gym the lounge upstairs everything like that eventually what we'll have is 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:31.039 a little iPad that they can carry around and pick what zones they want or if they 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:34.919 want to switch over to land mode that'll kind of be a button and that'll adjust a 00:08:32.839 --> 00:08:39.599 whole bunch of things but as it stands right now I just have a very basic 00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:45.040 interface um oh yeah basic yeah no this is not like the user interface this is 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:49.120 the user interface that I've made right now I didn't spend a lot of time on it 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:53.800 and as you can see it's only like three buttons so we can toggle if the court is 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:56.720 enabled and then we can also limit the volume of the background music when 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:00.560 you're playing badminton and things like that it can be a nice background level 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:04.839 and then we have uh background music death which basically takes the entire 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:09.800 courts up to their maximum volume that I think is a uh pretty damn loud can we 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.040 hear it sure let's do it you want some crab Rave yeah let's do it while Dan's 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:18.480 getting them going now is as good a time as any to show you the speakers that we ended up using they're from sound tube 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:23.440 and they are power over Ethernet meaning that all we need to have is a PoE switch 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:27.680 and boom you can have an amplified speaker anywhere you can run an Ethernet 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:33.360 cable so on this side of the Court we've actually got I think it's nine of them 00:09:30.640 --> 00:09:37.680 go ahead Dan realistically we'd love to add a little bit more acoustic dampening 00:09:35.160 --> 00:09:41.839 to the ends of the building and there are still some things that Dan can tune 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:47.640 within the software to help compensate for the echoin of the 00:09:44.839 --> 00:09:54.040 space but you can see as I move around this actually pretty 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:57.640 usable Crank It Up Dan let's 00:09:57.640 --> 00:10:04.760 go you can definitely tell when you're closer to one of the 00:10:01.760 --> 00:10:07.040 speakers but there's so many that you're 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:13.440 pretty much always close to one another thing that I've implemented 00:10:09.680 --> 00:10:15.000 as well is automatic ducking so I can 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:18.360 talk into the microphone and do my announcements and then when I 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:25.480 stop hey now that's pretty cool it's also 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:29.920 time bound as well so it's not down and up and down and up 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:37.120 freaking loud like what the heck to kind of 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:41.839 prevent it from getting super loud yeah uh you know I hook up my phone I set it 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:45.800 to 100% volume it doesn't destroy the whole speakers and everything like that 00:10:43.959 --> 00:10:50.240 I've got a leveling system for the phone input as well so if you're playing it 00:10:47.959 --> 00:10:53.079 super quiet out in the lobby it's all going to be a consistent volume oh wait 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:56.920 we could just like connect our phone to it I have it Bluetooth to my laptop 00:10:54.880 --> 00:11:02.839 right now the adapter I have is Bluetooth these are sure bet 58 wireless 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:08.160 mics and the thing is that they're the receiver is stuffed under a door in the 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:11.360 kind of Court area right at the front they reach all the way to the back on 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.959 both courts and you don't have to think about it then when we come in to do 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:22.240 Lands we can be on site we can do more weird things this is just the most basic 00:11:18.680 --> 00:11:24.079 setup super easy to do thanks Q sis I 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:28.720 guess oh did did they hook us up with software is subcription no it's a 00:11:26.760 --> 00:11:34.360 Perpetual licenses we did have to pay for a whole bun of licenses um like a 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:41.480 Dante Channel upgrade right now I think we have 16 transmit flows so I have 16 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:43.399 zones including both bathrooms and each 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:46.839 side of the speakers are on different zones we got four along the left four 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:50.760 along the right four for the hanging speakers and then Court concession in 00:11:49.040 --> 00:11:55.360 both bathrooms so is this the kind of installation that Dante is for well 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:59.600 typically you use Dante to bring audio back and forth between the stage the 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.040 mixer position and speakers but in this setup we're doing things a little bit 00:12:00.760 --> 00:12:07.760 different uh there's no mixer at all right cuz we're using CIS exactly so CIS 00:12:05.760 --> 00:12:11.200 is a network manageable audio video and control program right so we just don't 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:15.320 need a mix it exactly it does it all in the Box tell me this though does Dante 00:12:13.199 --> 00:12:18.399 have any special requirements from your network equipment like can I just plug 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:23.480 it into anything yeah not from the switching side it does have extremely 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:25.240 specific like transmit protocols that 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:29.199 need to be followed often requiring an entire separate Network to be run so 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:33.360 that it doesn't go over your normal local traffic is a latency issue or 00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:36.800 latency issue and a traffic issue as well you need very specific packet 00:12:34.880 --> 00:12:42.680 switching okay but our UniFi stuff does it it does now oh up until extremely 00:12:39.839 --> 00:12:47.519 recently UniFi was one of the only companies that you could not use Dante 00:12:44.839 --> 00:12:52.560 with oh um and yet and yet they have released some Alpha version right now 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:54.320 which supports CYS Dante Crestron all of 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:59.480 those sort of switching protocols and you can actually see on our RGB switches 00:12:56.760 --> 00:13:03.880 here the ones in this greeny yellow are specific Dante vline that we have set up 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:07.880 RGB Network switches who knew it would actually be very practical it's actually 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:12.560 quite useful so this is a completely separate VLAN which basically carries 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:16.920 all of our audio traffic theoretically all we would need to do to plug one of 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:22.240 these guys in oh yeah okay is just slap it in here to any PoE port and then 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:28.040 it'll activate and if it's on the right VLAN then now you've got AIO two analog 00:13:24.920 --> 00:13:29.720 inputs yep there you go wow so that's 00:13:28.040 --> 00:13:34.399 actually a camera no well so it's not going to 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:37.120 work I am watching you stop it on the subject of these dongles I couldn't help 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:42.760 noticing we have a lot of them we're not using right now what is the plan for these these are all for the Lan 00:13:40.680 --> 00:13:46.600 eventually for example this is one that we're using downstairs for the 00:13:43.880 --> 00:13:50.440 microphone so this is a stereo XLR in this one here is a stereo XLR out so we 00:13:49.040 --> 00:13:56.399 could have a traditional backline on a stage or something like that and then feed the entire system directly into 00:13:53.959 --> 00:14:00.440 some big speakers the nice thing about Dante in particular in these is I can 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:05.160 preon figure them in whatever Port I want and then all I do is I plug them 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:08.959 into the network and they self assemble that is so cool they're all addressed 00:14:07.199 --> 00:14:14.000 and they have controls on them too so so when Chase is just rolling out land 00:14:11.560 --> 00:14:18.040 equipment he all he needs to know is this goes there and boom it's ready to 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:24.279 go exactly super sick this one here is USBC 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:28.600 oh so it's blue it goes it's two-way communication so this is a I believe a 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:32.120 dual stereo pair the one that we have downstairs is Bluetooth and there's a 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:37.279 whole bunch of different ins and outs because Dante is kind of just a standard 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:42.759 and then companies can put it in whatever they want it's pretty neat how 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:45.279 much did it cost so this entire setup 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:51.680 with all of these adapters and about 30 speakers was about 20 grand I believe 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:53.480 that is great guys you have no idea the 00:14:51.680 --> 00:14:58.279 kinds of quotes that I got from like audio contractors and obviously we spent 00:14:55.560 --> 00:15:02.240 more than $20,000 total when we consider the time that our 00:14:59.680 --> 00:15:05.519 infrastructure team and Dan spent you know implementing this I think we're 00:15:03.959 --> 00:15:11.079 still out ahead though absolutely and all we had to do is run Ethernet cable 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:13.360 and the adaptability pays for itself 00:15:11.079 --> 00:15:17.839 yeah can be changed anytime we want it can be in any port in this building that 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:22.680 is so cool you just need PoE like we could add a PA to the office up here all 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:26.839 we'd have to do is make sure that that Port is running to a PoE switch and then 00:15:24.800 --> 00:15:31.920 boom and this one is so now we have a microphone in Jim's office it's as easy 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this we got like access control on all the doors and everything 00:16:53.839 --> 00:16:59.040 does that work yet yep yes everything's in