AEC on Dante?
muzicman82
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This almost looked too easy. Shure has their new Dante-based Microflex Wireless stuff and I was thinking for a potential job you could just run the Transceiver right into the Dante network on a BLU-806. But, it doesn't appear you can add AEC to a Dante input, correct?
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AEC processing is done on the actual AEC input card...
However, you are able to route the Dante input, out through an analog output and back into the AEC input card on the device itself.
But that would probably defeat the whole point of using dante in the first place.
The downside to this is that I can't take advantage of a complete Dante digital audio signal flow and have to add another D/A - A/D chain into the mix. Not a huge deal but staying Dante would be really awesome... and also keeps the Analog IO free for other things.
The 102 has 2 factory fitted input cards with AEC processing.
I would have been nice, but what can you do.
Then again, Soundweb devices have really good A/D D/A converters...
Technically, this statement is incorrect.
The 102 has 10 analog inputs, and it can also access BLU link channels 1 through 48. The 102 also has internal DSP chips dedicated for 8 channels of AEC processing (these chips are in addition to the standard DSP chips for all other processing). This AEC processing can be applied to any of the 10 local analog inputs ***OR*** to any of the first 48 BLU link channels.
The 102 and 101 are unique in that they are the only BLU devices with \"floating\" AEC which can be applied to either local analog inputs or channels 1-48 of BLU link.
Therefore, if you want to AEC-process Dante audio, while retaining a completely digital path, it is possible. But you'll need at least 2 BLU devices. One device to receive the Dante audio and convert it to BLU link (806 and 326 both have this ability) and one device to AEC-process the audio directly off of BLU link (101 and 102 both have this ability).
Bring the audio into the Dante box and use blulink to route it to the BLU-101. It has \"floating\" AEC blocks. At that point you should be able to process the audio and send it back to the other processor.
Just remember that the BLU-1xx series has a limited amount of blulink channels.