SHURE Mic Networking Considerations

SHURE Mic

The SHURE MXA310 and MXA910 enabled microphone makes use of a dedicated SHURE Mic Component processing object in Tesira software.

SHURE Dante mic Networking Details

The SHURE Dante enabled microphones have some unique requirements which must be observed for use on the Dante network. Currently the MXA310 and MXA910 are supported in Tesira. The MXA910 uses Dante to transport up to nine discrete channels of audio. Channels 1 through 8 are discrete for each individual lobe and the 9th channel is an automixed version of all of the available lobes. The MXA310 uses Dante to transport up to 5 discrete channels of audio. Channels 1 through 4 are discrete for each lobe and the 5th channel is an automixed version of all available lobes. This does mean that a Dante capable switch is required. More information on switch setup and detailed connection diagrams can be found in SHURE's MXA910 user guide and MXA310 user guide.

Latency Settings

Users are required to use Dante Controller to change the network latency settings of the SHURE Dante mic as needed to match Tesira, as such, they are beholden to the range of latencies allowed in Tesira (1 or 2 ms for Dante as configured in the Network_Latency section of the Document Settings in the Tools Menu). Tesira software provides no interface for changing the audio latency for a SHURE Dante mic. An interface for changing the latency for the microphone is found in Audinate’s Dante Controller software.

IP Addresses

The network IP address of the SHURE Dante mic can be modified using the SHURE web application. The web management interface can be launched through the Tesira software after the IP address has been defined using the icon. If no IP address has been specified before the Launch Management Web GUI.. button is selected the dialog used to enter the IP will be displayed.

Tesira Hardware Requirements and Compiler Implications

SHURE Mic Input Blocks may only be placed into Server and SERVER-IO's that contain a DAN-1 card, or a Dante enabled TesiraFORTÉ device.

Number of microphones per Dante Card

The Dante API is used to implement a conmon (Con(trol)/Mon(itoring)) subscription between the Tesira Server device and the SHURE Dante microphone. A maximum of 32 Dante mic channels can be assigned to a DAN-1 card, and 32 channels of Dante audio to the TesiraFORTÉ.

Microphone performance can be enhanced by assigning each individual lobe to its own dedicated AEC processing block. In systems where this is done, typically the Mixed output of the microphone is not needed.

The Dante enabled TesiraFORTÉ shall support 3x MXA310 (all channels using AEC) or 1x MXA910 with all channels using AEC. A Server or Server IO with one DAN-1 card can support 6x MXA310 or 3x MXA910. This is assuming all lobes of the microphone are being used. If less lobes are used however the number of devices will increase.

Locate

This feature is not available on the SHURE MXA910 and the MXA310.

Dante Controller

To assist with connecting the microphones in Audinate’s Dante Controller, the lobe channels will be given default channel names that indicate they are lobe channels, and the automix channel will be given a channel name indicating that it is the automix channel. If the SHURE Mic input block number of channels is modified using Edit Block Properties, the names on the channels will be modified with new default names, if however a channel name has been changed from its default, then the channel’s name will be left unmodified.

Please ensure the correct SHURE mic Dante transmitter channel is routed to the correct SHURE mic input channel in Tesira. When using Dante Controller software it is possible to route any transmitter channel to any SHURE mic Input Block, so for simplification it is highly recommended doing this in a 1-to-1 relationship, i.e. CH1-to-CH1, CH2-to-CH2, CH3-to-CH3, (and so on).