LUTON, U.K. — Cadac named Richard “Fez” Ferriday director of sales and marketing. The company also noted that its CDC six medium format live sound console will be featured at the upcoming AES show in its U.S. debut.
More details from Cadac (www.cadac-sound.com):
As Director of Sales and Marketing, Ferriday has global responsibility for sales and marketing of the CADAC portfolio of audio mixing consoles and high definition networking products. The move also sees Ferriday take on direct responsibility for the company’s global distributor network and its North America sales and service subsidiary, newly located in Minneapolis, under the management of Technical Support Manager Mitch Mortenson.
The new North American sales and service HQ provides warehousing and greater space for expansion of the product demo facilities. The move is in anticipation of an equally successful launch of the CDC six in the US and Canada, to that in Europe and Asia.
The 139th International AES Convention in New York sees the US launch of the CDC six, the company’s highly praised new medium format live sound console. The CDC six is based around a further development of CADAC’s advanced, highly acclaimed gesture-operation user interface. With the same superlative audio performance and incredible low latency of the CDC eight, the CDC six represents a major ergonomic advance in user operation. The traditional fixed physical controls have been replaced by an intuitive “high agility” user interface, accessed via a 16:9 23.5 inch optically bonded touch screen, resulting in a fast, logical workflow without the compromises dictated by hardware-centric designs. The layout of the screen, encoders and OLEDS naturally leads to an instinctive use of “touch and swipe”, where the faders follow the swipe of the screen, ensuring full control at all time of any combination of inputs, outputs or VCAs displayed on the screen. This unique interface makes the CDC six an extremely intuitive console for any level of user to setup and use.
Widely acknowledged to be the world’s best sounding mixing consoles, the CDC six – and the CDC eight – are being shown at AES in demo room 4A1 with the latest software update. This provides signal clocking enhancements that, incredibly, improve that exceptional sonic performance still further; described as having “a definite noticeable improvement on sound quality”.
All being shown are the MegaCOMMS audio network components, the CDC MC Router, and CDC MC MADI and CDC MC Dante network bridges. MegaCOMMS is CADAC’s proprietary high definition audio network designed especially for live performance applications. With an industry leading sub 400μs system latency (from on-stage inputs to outputs – including all console processing and all AD/DA conversions), MegaCOMMS’ micro second latency performance compares with the millisecond specifications of competing digital consoles and audio networks. The unique latency is married with absolute phase coherence, the result of complete sample synchronization before summing, to provide exemplary audio performance in a digital audio network, capable of transmitting up to 3072 channels of bi-directional 24-bit/96kHz audio, control data and clock, on up to 150 metres of RG6 cable.
Richard “Fez” Ferriday will also be participating in two sessions during the AES Live Sound Expo; “Theatrical Console Automation” on Friday 30th at 14:00, and “Modern Digital Mixing Console Fundamentals: A Practical and Ergonomic Approach” on Saturday Oct. 31 at 12 noon.
