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Launched at NAB last month, Logitek Electronic Systems’ AE-IP card turns the AE-32 Audio Engine platform into an AoIP node and mixer handling up to 128 inputs x 128 outputs in a single box. Logitek’s updated Mosaic control surface offers easier access to the new features of streaming consoles and networked audio systems, and consumes about 1/3 less power than the prior model. www.logitekaudio.com


Wheatstone Corporation has exhibited an expanded version of its Dimension One audio console, the Dimension Two, which brings multiple major-market features to mid-market budgets. The TS-22 is a multi-featured studio “talent station” that integrates microphone, monitoring, and communication functions over the Wheatnet-IP audio network. AirAura X-3 is Wheatstone’s latest flagship digital audio processor. www.wheatstone.com


Merging Technologies’ Pyramix V8.0 natively supports Ravenna Audio over IP for use with its DSP-based system, enabling real-time audio interchange across standard layer 3 networks. The Horus networked audio converter is now available with a single-mode optical fibre MADI connection and copper-to- fibre converters for extended Ravenna connections, and the Ovation V4.0 media server and sequencer, intended for live broadcast playout, now incorporates many user-requested enhancements plus Dataton WATCHOUT synchronisation. www.merging.com


Audio Video Technologies’ Magic THipPro is a new POTS, ISDN or VoIP telephone hybrid talkshow system handling up to 16 callers from up to 20


workplaces with resources shared between six studios. Magic TH2plus, purportedly the smallest talkshow system on the market, handles two callers from up to three workplaces. www.avt-nbg.de


Shure shoots for DSLR market


Microphone giant is “ahead of financial plan” as it launches into growing camera accessory market, writes Frank Wells


SHURE PRESIDENT and CEO Sandy LaMantia reports that around 40 Advanced Development teams are busy at the company, a “new product engine that’s continuing to purr along”. Shure is ahead of its financial plan, according to LaMantia, and expects the next year to be rife with product releases.


As a case in point, the


manufacturer has previewed the first pair in a new series of microphones designed for camera-top applications, as DSLR cameras become increasing prevalent in videography applications. The mics can also be used with portable audio/video recorders that feature external mic inputs. The VP83 and VP83F both


borrow from the design of the Shure VP82 shotgun microphone. The compact supercardioid condenser mics feature a suspension system


FRANCE/AUSTRALIA New mobile radio partnership By Erica Basnicki


AUDIO CODEC manufacturer Tieline has partnered with content management solution provider NETIA, the result of which includes the integration of Report-IT Enterprise with NETIA’s software solutions for managing and broadcasting radio content. Both organisations worked


closely with mutual customer ABC Australia to integrate the ingest of recorded Report-IT audio files into NETIA’s Radio- Assist using FTP sharing. Tieline has also integrated iSnippet, NETIA’s latest Radio-Assist


NETIA iSnippet for iPhone and iPad


editing tool, into Report-IT Enterprise for iPhone and iPad. “Clearly Tieline’s partnership with NETIA opens up an entirely


new world of opportunities for mobile journalism by making it easier and faster for journalists to get their stories to air via NETIA


developed with Rycote for isolation from vibration and mechanical noise. Rycote also developed optional windscreens for the devices. In addition to the gain and HPF controls on the VP83, the VP83F also brings an LCD display for metering, menu and status visualisation, a headphone output and a flash memory card slot to facilitate onboard recording at 48kHz/24-bit sampling. The mics will ship in the summer of 2013 at a price yet to be fixed. “The only cloud hanging over


us,” says LaMantia, “continues to be this whole spectrum issue.” Shure has adopted a two-fold approach to addressing the wireless needs of its customers, he explains. “Making our products more spectrally


musician market GLX-D, digital wireless systems. The second prong in the


approach, where LaMantia says “we have a ton of research and development going on”, is giving Shure’s customers more wireless options outside of the television band, as with the company’s 900MHz and (exemplified by the GLX-D system) 2.4GHz products that use active spectrum monitoring and channel hopping to maintain signal integrity. “We’ve built in a lot of


The design of the VP83 is based on the the Shure VP82 shotgun microphone


efficient… using more digital technology,” is one facet of Shure’s wireless initiatives, such as in its ULX-D, and the NAMM 2013 introduced


interference protection,” says LaMantia. Already evident within other products, the monitoring, fail-safe and channel management technologies in Shure’s flagship Axient wireless microphone line will be further utilised, he adds. “Our goal, is to put Axient technology into every product eventually.”n www.shure.com


+ To read more about how Axient is helping venues overcome spectrum uncertainty, turn to page 53.


Radio-Assist systems. Journalists now also have access to improved and streamlined report editing capabilities with the integration of NETIA’s iSnippet editing application into Report-IT Enterprise for iPhone and iPad,” said Charlie Gawley, vice president of sales, APAC/EMEA for Tieline. The range of editing tools


available within Radio-Assist automation products is now available for iOS devices. Sharing the same look and ergonomic principles as the desktop interface, the new iPhone- and iPad-compatible iSnippet tool allows field reporters and other remote users to enjoy Radio-Assist audio editing capabilities on their portable devices. n www.netia.com www.tieline.com


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