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The broadcast room at Temple University in Philadelphia has implemented a Ferrofish A32 converter.

Temple University Taps Ferrofish For Televised Sports Broadcasts

A32 converts analog audio sources -- specifically for natural sounding microphones during its men’s basketball and women’s basketball, volleyball and gymnastics productions -- to the digital realm.

For its first in-house ESPN/American Athletics Conference broadcast in late 2020, Kevin Hession, Temple University’s director of video production and broadcast engineer, working in partnership with Alpha Video of Minneapolis, implemented a Ferrofish A32 to convert analog audio sources — specifically for natural sounding microphones during its men’s basketball and women’s basketball, volleyball and gymnastics productions — to the digital realm.

“We wanted as much functionality as possible to still be able to use analog audio when necessary,” Hession explains, adding that the A32 AD/DA converter is routed to a full patch bay. “We’re then able to patch those sources to the necessary destinations.”

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The broadcast team then converts that to MADI and send it to a 64-channel digital mixing console. “The audio ecosystem we implemented makes audio routes incredibly simple,” he adds. “The A32 gives us a ton of flexibility with that.”

Aside from its universal functionality, Hession said another aspect for selecting the A32 converter — which is also available in a Dante format — was ease of use: “By using the A32, it easily allows me to focus on the actual production rather than having to constantly troubleshoot any potential audio faults. If we want another audio source, or even if our broadcast talent just wants a different analog source we’ve set up, it takes less than four clicks.”

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