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The Audio Management menu houses the Manage Groups and System Audio
pages.
Manage Groups
Microphone groups allow defining different mute behavior between individual
microphones or groups of microphones. Microphones in one Executive Elite
System can be assigned to any number of microphone groups. Each group can
then be assigned a specific mute behavior for that group. Using the Cluster
concept, mute groups can be extended across several Executive Elite Base
units, to include microphones from different systems. To create mute groups
across several Executive Elite units, the Elite bases need to be connected to an
IP network, and to be part of the same subnet (see page Error! Bookmark not
defined. on how to set up clusters). When adding an Executive Elite base DSP
to an existing Cluster, mute group names will be exchanged between the
system that was added and the systems priviously in the Cluster ensuring that
all systems in the cluster have the same mute groups.
NOTE: Up to 10 Mute groups can be created within one Executive Elite
base DSP or Cluster. If several Executive Elite Clusters or non-
clustered Executive Elite Base DSPs are on the same network or
using the same synchronization bus, the Mute Groups in each of
these Clusters and unclustered Executive Elite Base DSPs are
independent of each other and do not affect the maximum number
of mute groups in each Cluster or Base DSP.
NOTE: To find other units in the same cluster, Executive Elite units
communicate over the IP network using port 5001. While this port
is typically blocked in routers and firewalls going in and out of a
corporate network, you should ensure that this port is open inside
your network, but closed going out of your network.
Executive Elite bases that are assigned to the same cluster and that are in the
same subnet will communicate mute information between each other. Groups
by the same name on different Executive Elite bases in the cluster are
automatically assumed to be the same group, so when mute information is
being exchanged between these bases, mute changes to the same-named
groups will affect microphones on both Elites.
All Executive Elite base DSP units have one group called “Default” which
contains all microphones of a newly configured system.