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Engineering Brief

A Dante Powered Modular Microphone Array System

Authors: Pezzoli, Mirco; Comanducci, Luca; Waltz, Joe; Agnello, Anthony; Bondi, Luca; Canclini, Antonio; Sarti, Augusto

AES Convention 145 · Paper 479 · October 2018

Abstract

Eventide Inc. and Politecnico di Milano are collaborating to present a versatile high-performance Network Based Modular Microphone Array System (MMAS). One advantage of the system is the ability to quickly build various linear and planar array geometries with up to 64 microphone elements (sensors) connected to a single workstation, with the option to expand up to 512 sensors by synchronizing multiple sub-systems. The system modules (eStick) consist of a 48cm linear array made of 16 MEMS microphones with an integrated Audinate Dante Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) interface. The system is intended to support a wide range of industrial and research applications, ranging from advanced sound scene analysis and manipulation to source separation, extraction, and tracking.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 145
AES Convention
145
Paper number
479
Publication date
October 6, 2018
Session subject
Transducers
Affiliation
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; Eventide, Little Ferry, NJ, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief