Category Archives: AES67

The Clocking Crisis: Why the Cloud is Breaking Broadcast IP

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The Clocking Crisis: Why the Cloud is Breaking Broadcast IP

The move from SDI to IP was supposed to grant the broadcast industry ultimate flexibility. However, while ST 2110 and AES67 work flawlessly on localized, “bare metal” ground networks, they hit a wall when crossing into the cloud.

The industry is currently struggling with a “compute failure” during the back-and-forth between Ground-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground. The culprit isn’t a lack of processing power—it’s the rigid reliance on Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in an environment that cannot support it. Continue reading →

SDP meta data and channel information

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The Protocol-Driven Stage: Why SDP Changes Everything for Live Sound

For decades, the foundation of a successful live show has been the patch master—a highly skilled human who translates a band’s technical needs (their stage plot and input list) into physical cables. The Festival Patch formalized this by making the mixing console channels static, minimizing changeover time by relying on human speed and organizational charts.

But what happens when the patch list becomes part of the digital DNA of the audio system?

The demonstration of embedding specific equipment metadata—like the microphone model ($\text{SM57}$), phantom power ($\text{P48}$), and gain settings—directly into the same protocol (SDP) that defines the stream count and routing, paves the way for the Automated Stage. Continue reading →

Celebration of Chris Tobin

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Alex and I attended the Celebration of a fellow engineer Chris Tobin.

I was on the TWRIT show three time I think with him.   Solid questions, great interviewer, great ethic.  I watched Many hours of him sharing wisdom with the internet.  Smart guy and busy busy busy doing the worlds most amazing project.    Some of his brilliance was captured on this week in radio tech

He was taken too soon.

 

We talked about the Emoji description protocol