AEQ convinces at IBC with its new Atrium high-end digital console

Atrium is capable of handling up to a thousand audio channels with up to more than 90 motorized faders. In addition to Atrium, the Spanish brand exhibited its new Xplorer wireless intercom system to the European public for the first time.

The new digital audio console for radio and television broadcasting and production, Atrium, has been the focus of interest of those who have passed by the stand these days. AEQ in IBC 2019. Developed especially for those work environments with greater operational requirements, it can handle up to 1000 local or IP audio channels controllable through one or more surfaces, each one with up to 96 motorized and pageable faders.

Developed with the operator in mind, it features a great simplicity of operation through a powerful set of touch screens, encoders, indicators and keys, which are pre-configured, and which dynamically adapt their function to the context, avoiding unnecessary steps, and always keeping the precise information in view, so that the operation is simple and safe.

It incorporates the commitment to make the most of the advantages that technology makes available to us today. In this way, the systems AoIP They allow having inputs and outputs, process and control, distributed in different devices, sometimes being very physically distant. It incorporates tools to develop redundancy capacity at all levels, the storage and instant retrieval of scenes, the convergence of physical and virtual control elements, the automation of mixing and level adjustment, the transport of control inputs and outputs through the different equipment of a system.

Each Atrium control surface can be absolutely particularize. Thus, classic ways of working can be implemented, for example: each fader can have an A/B configuration, or each channel has direct access to sends to pre-defined buses, or the channels can be defined for bidirectional multiplex so that each user has the mix of all but him. Mixed or very special ways of working can also be configured with flexible key programming to act on the console routing, or controlling external equipment such as routers, audio codecs, broadcast telephone systems, broadcast automation, or intercom systems.

Atrium is characterized by a great simplicity of configuration and integration within a system, which can easily extend beyond its walls of a production center to, for example, connect to external events, or to other production centers, permanently or temporarily, as part of a network of stations within a multichannel AoIP system of the necessary size.

Xplorer, intercom over WiFi at 5GHz

The manufacturer has also announced to the European market at IBC the new wireless intercom already on sale, Xplorer. It is a wireless intercom terminal based on 5 GHz WiFi technology. It can be part of a system based on an intercom matrix, or work as a terminal of a Party-Line system without the need for a matrix.

5 GHz WiFi connectivity facilitates the installation, start-up and maintenance of the system, since it is a generic technology implemented throughout the world, and it even allows sharing the existing wireless network.

Xplorer is equipped with a user interface with 4 shortcut keys (x4 pages), mute and menu, with a color TFT multifunction screen, on which, among others, the keys are labeled, the level of each interlocutor, the battery charge level and the WiFi signal level are represented.

The beltpack can work as a client for AEQ Crossnet and Conexia Intercom matrices, but it can also work in Party-Line mode, without the need for a central matrix, as a terminal for Kroma's Easynet system, with 4 channels and up to 28 devices.

The beltpack has double volume control to give direct access to the level adjustment of the main interlocutor, differentiating it from the rest. Its dimensions and weight are reduced, it is protected from bumps and splashes, it can be attached to a belt or hung from a ribbon, to be used as a shoulder bag. Its antenna is internal, with high gain. Xplorer has an autonomy of more than 20 hours of interrupted operation and recharges in a quick-connect multiple base.