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Soundweb London has its Digits on the Buzzer
ExCeL-based Fox Bars & Restaurants, who use Green-I as their preferred systems integrator, decided (as one of the Show’s major sponsors) to create their own bar — Fox@Waterside — down on the exhibition floor. While Green-I’s sister company Canegreen Commercial were invited to provide a conventional PA system for the feature, Fox had something more creative in mind when a pub quiz was scheduled midway through the show.
“We were asked to design Quiz Buzzers for each of the six tables,” reports Green-I’s Ian Woodall. “Although pressing a button is straightforward they wanted a scenario whereby the first finger on the buzzer disabled everything else.”
By using a BSS Soundweb London BLU-80, linked to a laptop, they were able to contrive a solution which incorporated a five-second delay time after the buzzer was hit.
“The BLU-80 handled all the logic, sending commands to the laptop as to which of the six buzzers had been activated first. After the five-second disable period had elapsed, all the buzzers would become active again.”
Soundweb London uniquely enabled Green-I to create this solution. “We couldn’t have done this with the original green box Soundwebs since they don’t have logic capability — and neither can they trigger sound files,” Ian explains. “These are two great features that the new London range has to offer.”
In addition, the Ethernet-controlled BSS Soundweb London provides more flexible and enhanced I/O configurations, dual-redundant CobraNet™ audio networking with greater capacity and matrix sizes, double the DSP of the Soundweb 9088ii processor and a new core system design package written completely from the ground up.
In picture: hands on the buzzer at Fox@Waterside pub quiz.
11th February 2005
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