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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 9 | September 2015

InAudio

Sennheiser Highlights
Four 'Audio Worlds'
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our distinctive audio worlds await systems an ideal choice. Launched
visitors at the joint Sennheiser and earlier this year at NAB, the new
Neumann IBC booth at IBC.
systems have convinced users across
Visitors can experience:
the globe with their
'ENG
World'
where
strikingly compact plugSennheiser will preview
on receiver, exceptional
a brand new wireless
ease of use and fast
product; a typical Radio
set-up.
Station
environment;
For mobile journalism,
a TV Broadcast Studio;
Sennheiser will showcase
and a dedicated Sports
its most portable ENG
Broadcasting set-up.
audio solutions: the
ENG World will show
ClipMic
digital
and
the full scope of typical
MKE 2 digital clip-on
electronic newsgathering
microphones
which
situations, from high- Sennheiser AVX digital
connect
directly
to
end broadcasting teams wireless system
iPhone, iPad or iPod
to small video crews and 'one-man touch devices, turning them into
shows'.
an ENG tool that is always at hand.
For expert broadcasting teams, The clip-on mics were developed in
wireless microphone systems for cooperation with A/D conversion
camera use from Sennheiser's 5000, specialists Apogee Electronics.
3000 and 2000 series will be on show.
Radio Station: a set-up that helps
Small production teams will find to demo Neumann's most successful
Sennheiser's AVX digital wireless microphones for this environment:

the BCM 104, TLM 102 and TLM
107, with the classic U 87 as
Sennheiser ClipMic MKE 2
an additional heritage exhibit.
Sennheiser HD 26 Pro and HD
new Headmic 1, which was recently
650 headphones and Neumann KH
launched at InfoComm in June.
120 monitor speakers as well as a
Sports Broadcasting: The highlight
Neumann KH 810 subwoofer round off
will be Esfera, Sennheiser's surround
the studio recreation.
sound system which creates a fullyTV Broadcast Studio: A typical
fledged 5.1 sound from a two-channel
TV talkshow 'studio' and control
signal. Mounted onto a camera or
room serve to showcase the highestinstalled in a stadium, the compact
quality Sennheiser and Neumann
Esfera microphone can be operated
broadcast equipment, from Digital
just like any rugged stereo microphone
9000, Sennheiser's ultimate digital
- whose sound can then be converted
wireless system, to Neumann KH 310
to 5.1 at any point in the workflow.
monitor speakers. Also on show are
Sennheiser and Neumann shotgun
wired microphones for studio use,
microphones as well as broadcast
such as the table-top Sennheiser MKH
headsets round off
8050 and ME 36 models as well as
the products on
Neumann KM 185, and Sennheiser
show.
broadcast
headsets.
For presenters, the
studio
environment
features the classic
Sennheiser Esfera
MKE 40 clip-on mic and the

Roland Launch Compact M-5000C
Live Digital Mixing Console
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oland has announced the global
launch of the O.H.R.C.A M-5000C
Digital Mixing Console. This eagerly
anticipated console closely follows
the launch of the award winning
O.H.R.C.A M-5000 console earlier
this year. Measuring under 30 inches
(74 cm) in width and weighing just 70
pounds (32kg), the compact M-5000C
offers all the flexibility and power of
the M-5000 console but in a smaller
footprint - making it the ideal choice
for touring, broadcast, theatre and live
performance. The M-5000C will make
its debut to the European market at the
forthcoming IBC Exhibition (Amsterdam
RAI, 11-15 September 2015).
Using the same O.H.R.C.A (Open High
Resolution Configurable Architecture)
platform that has made the M-5000
so popular with engineers, the
M-5000C brings a new dimension of
user configurability to consoles of this
size at an affordable price-point. The
O.H.R.C.A. platform delivers 128 freely
definable audio paths, expandable

protocols and multi-format I/O choices
combined with a flexible user interface
and workflow - all at a pristine 24-bit
/ 96kHz sound quality. This open audio
architecture supports Dante, MADI,
Waves Sound Grid, and REAC audio
protocols, as well as audio delivery
over video using SDI, DVI and SFP
cabling.
Along with a 96kHz sampling rate for
superb sound quality, M-5000C has a
72-bit summing bus, newly designed,
discrete analogue circuitry and
redundant power supply. In addition
to 16 inputs and eight outputs on the
console, the M-5000C also features
two expansion interface slots that can
accommodate REAC, Dante, MADI,
Waves SoundGrid and other XI-Series
expansion cards.
An intuitive and flexible workflow is
key to the design of the M-5000C with
an abundance of user-centric features
such as the 12" colour touchscreen that
is controllable by multipurpose knobs
below the screen. Sixteen (of a total

of twenty) faders are divided
into two banks of eight that
can work together or
isolated, each can be
assigned with a total of
four different workflows;
Scroll, Spill DCA, Anchors and User
Assignable Layers. The remaining four
faders can be freely assigned by the
user depending on their requirements.
Also free to be assigned by the user
are three banks each with four knobs
and eight buttons (total twelve knobs
and twenty four buttons) ensuring the
M-5000C truly meets the demands
for compliancy that professionals now
expect.
Naturally, the extensive family of
existing Roland products integrates
seamlessly with the new platform -
knitting the M-5000C into thousands
of systems already running worldwide.
Scores of digital snake options already
exist for I/O, but the Roland M-48
Personal Mixer offers a particularly
powerful solution. Hybrid monitoring

Roland's M-5000C Digital Mixing Console

takes the lead performers' mixes off
the console busses in the traditional
way, while the rest of the musicians
use M-48 Personal Mixers. Connecting
M-48 and M-5000C via the powered
REAC port on the console, the
engineer can seamlessly mix between
those artists on aux busses and
those musicians on personal mixers.
Finally, the R-1000 48-channel
Player/Recorder completes the family
of devices fully integral with the
M-5000C.
The M-5000C is the latest addition
to the growing line-up of O.H.R.C.A.
based consoles that include the 28
fader M-5000, winner of the 'Best
Mixing System (Live)' award at the
pipa/Prolight & Sound International
Press Awards.
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