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Corona: BH Audio turns to D&B for special Ravenna Festival edition

Ravenna Festival which is in its 31st edition, is a summer festival held in the city of Ravenna, Italy, and the surrounding area. The festival began on June 21st and will continue until July 30th but this year, due to Covid-19 restrictions it looks far different to previous years.

For the organizers, cancelling the festival was never an option, instead new programs were put in place. “This is our most important festival yet, people in Italy and around the world have been waiting months to experience the joy of live music,” comments Giulia Artemisia Nicosia from BH Audio, who supplied the audio system for the festival.

This year, a large part of the program is taking place in the open air of the Brancaleone Fortress in the center of Ravenna. From here some 300 people can enjoy the shows live. For those who miss out of these coveted seats, almost all of the concerts will be streamed online. For the audience, as well as the performers, temperature checks and masks are in full effect.

“One of the main challenges for the orchestra was the distance between them, which of course has a huge impact on the sound,” explains Nicosia. “In order to combat this, we used the virtual acoustic shell with Soundscape to help the musicians hear to each other and simulate better acoustics on stage.”

Two D&B DS100 processors with the D&B Soundscape software plus over 60 D&B loudspeakers are being used for the live concert: one for the audience and one to create the “virtual acoustic shell” for the musicians. A third DS100 is being used for the streaming service, to create an enhanced mix for the stereo stream. En-Scene is utilized to virtually position the objects in the stereo mix, while En-Space simulates the 360° loudspeakers at the venue to create the “concert hall acoustics” through an ambisonic plugin.

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