Optocore multiplies the possibilities of the Helsinki Music Center

Helsinki Music Center (Music house), a major venue that hosts concerts, a television and a recording studio, has updated its infrastructure Optocores with the addition of an intelligent AutoRouter patchbay.

The Music Center of Helsinki decided to trust the dealership Intersonic for the supply of AutoRouter from Optocoreswhich will release the file digital FOH SD8 so that it can work across the entire complex, including the productions for which it is intended television and streaming. Jori TossavainenStudio head, elaborates on the integration: “With this update we decided to free the old DiGiCo SD8 from its FOH position and distribute it as a portable unit inside its own flightcase (and as a monitor table). At the same time (…) we were able to free up an SD rack which could be moved next to the SD8. They are now used throughout the site and are linked from the AutoRouter to the main system.”

In addition to the AutoRouter system, the Music Center of Helsinki it has integrated a couple of devices Optocore M8 TUESDAYas well as a new console DigiCo Q338 with a ring Optocores in FOH, replacing the previous SD8. In the broadcast and recording part, the previous Studer consoles have been replaced by three consoles Theirs m² 56 to control rooms via a Ravenna network, and to the Anubis and Horus interfaces of Fusion technologies. The overall budget for the upgrade was around €700,000.

As a result of the deployment of Optocoreslos Changeover times between productions have been reduced, which is vital given the scope of some of the productions. “With this system we have gotten to where we should have been since opening day. We have good signal distribution between the consoles and a digital split, as well as versatile use for the old SD8,” he remarks. Tossavainen.

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