BERLIN, Germany and PLOUGOUMELEN, France – Neumann, which has been working on a joint project involving its Solution-D digital microphone series with Innovason, makers of Eclipse digital consoles, said the collaboration giving Eclipse consoles digital access to Solution-D mics would yield improvements in both audio quality and workflows.
"A continuous digital audio signal path is now available without any compromises," said Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of marketing/sales at Neumann. That idea, he added, "has been discussed among audio experts since the DAW became the main tool for processing and storage of audio data. The solution of remotely controlled features of our Solution-D series via the GUI of Innovason's new release of the Eclipse mixing console will provide our customers with the appropriate answer to this demand."
Philipp Lawo, CEO of Innovason's majority shareholder, Lawo Group, said "Innovason brings the pure sound of the Solution-D microphones to the integrated M.A.R.S. recording system and leads it through the powerful mixing engine of the Eclipse – straight to the FOH or monitoring system."
Innovason's Marcel Babazadeh added that "while benefiting from the improved sound of the Solution-D microphones, the sound engineer can forget noise problems due to analog cable-patching, there are no more clipping problems, and he has no worries with analog gain sharing – therefore gain compensation becomes obsolete and there are fewer problems with feedback because the audio remains in the digital domain from the microphones all the way out to the amplifiers. On top of that, all the settings of a digital microphone will be stored within pages and snapshots of the console."
The joint project gives engineers instant access to all Solution-D microphone parameters via the GUI of Innovason's Nova 2.0 software for Eclipse, including polar pattern, tone generator, limiter/compressor and attenuation.
In practical terms, that means that, for an open air classical music event, for example, where high amount of signals coming from the stage and the considerable dynamic provided by the instruments can be a challenge, Eclipse could enable a seamless workflow with SMART Faders, the SMART Panel, integrated FX, M.A.R.S. multitrack recording, Virtual Soundcheck, and control of the digital microphones.
Other advantage could include:
- Quality: Loss-less transmission without reductions in signal quality, retaining the full dynamic range and fidelity in a fully-synchronized audio network
- Time: Ease-of-use operation of the remote-controlled microphones as a result of their high dynamic range in combination with an integrated high-class peak limiter and compressor.
- Reliability: No interferences and no hum problems, well-suited for live applications
- Customization: Storage of individual settings for Gain, PAD, Polar Pattern, Low-Cut, Stereo matrixing, Phase and limiters in each microphone.
For more information, please visit www.innovason.com and www.neumann.com.
