The Merging Technologies Commentary Unit Mission provides an easy-to-use implementation of a broadcast commentary unit, targeted at journalists commentating on any type of on-air live events such as sport, eSport and radio programmes.
When running the Mission, the unit offers monitoring and commentary features for either one or two commentators, with all necessary microphone, loudspeakers and headphones connectivity, best-in-class mic preamp, headphone amplifier and AD/DA conversion, as well as EQ, dynamics and de-esser, directly in the box with no latency.
While giving access to traditional analogue I/O, the Commentary Unit Mission implementation also focuses on purely AoIP network audio integration, offering all required standards – including AES67, Ravenna, ST2110, ST2022-7 and NMOS, as well as full remote access for operation and configuration through a fully-featured web Interface and a Web Socket REST API.
The Commentary Unit Mission user interface is customisable to allow immediate usage of the unit in live environments with minimal training for the simplest foolproof operation.
Merging+Anubis Commentary Unit Mission has been thoroughly tested in Australia on all major sporting events since the 2021 Open Tennis Championship. Developed jointly with the NEP Australia’s engineering team, the latest NEP group company to take delivery of 18 units is the Norwegian operation. This Mission uses the same hardware as other Anubis Missions, with the SPS version offering dual RJ-45 connections for ST2022-7 redundancy. There is a small charge for this new Mission if purchased with the hardware unit and for existing Anubis customers, once the key has been purchased, it is a simple firmware update.
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