Press

31.01.2012 - Holte/Amsterdam

Media control for Sennheiser microphone and monitoring systems

With the new firmware version 1.7.0, audio specialist Sennheiser is now providing a media control protocol for its 2000, evolution wireless ew 500 G3 and evolution wireless ew 300 G3 series. This new open protocol enables rack-mount devices of the series to communicate directly with media control units in an Ethernet network (UDP/IP) and thus also to be integrated into larger audio/video control systems. The units can then be remote-controlled and monitored directly from a central control panel, such as those supplied by Crestron and AMX. Individual solutions from system providers or control via an iPad™/iPhone™* or a mixing console are equally possible.
 

Microphone receivers and monitoring transmitters of Sennheiser’s 2000, ew 500 G3 and ew 300 G3 series can now communicate directly with media control units via an open protocol

“The new firmware enables microphone receivers and monitoring transmitters from the 2000, ew 300 G3 and ew 500 G3 series to be remote-controlled and monitored,” explained Dela Bahlke, Microphone Product Manager at Sennheiser. The user can display the channel banks of the rack-mount receivers and transmitters, remotely set a suitable frequency and also assign names. The receivers and transmitters can be muted via the control panel and give warning signals if, for example, the signal strength is too low or if the devices are threatening to over-amplify. “Put simply: this interface can be used to give all essential commands and to set up the system,” said Dela Bahlke, summing up the benefits of the new firmware.   For the receivers of the ew 300 G3, ew 500 G3 and 2000 series, the squelch, equalizer and audio signal strength can be displayed, as well as the RF field strength for each receiver unit within the device, the active antenna, pilot tone on/off and the battery status for the associated handheld or bodypack transmitters.

For the monitoring transmitters of the ew 300 IEM G3 and 2000 IEM series, the sensitivity, equalizer and mono/stereo setting can be displayed and adjusted. In addition, the transmitter indicates the audio signal level.   “Of course, even when integrated into a media control system, the rack-mount receivers and transmitters can still be operated and programmed directly at the units themselves,” explained Dela Bahlke. “The devices will then process the current control signal in each case.”

 

The new firmware version for the receivers and transmitters as well as the complete documentation for the media control protocol can be downloaded free of charge from the Sennheiser website:
http://www.sennheiser.com/nordic/home_en.nsf/root/professional_media-control
  

Visit Sennheiser at the ISE, Hall 2, Stand C66.
 

*iPad and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the USA and other countries

The Sennheiser Group, with its headquarters in Wedemark near Hanover, Germany, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. The family-owned company, which was established in 1945, recorded sales of around €468 million in 2010. Sennheiser employs more than 2,100 people worldwide, and has manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and the USA. The company is represented worldwide by subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark (Nordic), Russia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Canada, Mexico and the USA, as well as by long-term trading partners in many other countries. Also part of the Sennheiser Group are Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin (studio microphones and monitor loudspeakers), and the joint venture Sennheiser Communications A/S (headsets for PCs, offices and call centres). 
 
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Sennheiser Nordic A/S Denmark
Susanne Meiniche  • Marketing Communications Nordic
Skovlytoften 33 • DK-2840 Holte
Phone: +45 70 26 66 33 • Fax: +45 70 26 67 11
e-mail: sennheiser@sennheisernordic.com
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Devices supported
• EM 300 G3 wireless microphone receiver
• EM 500 G3 wireless microphone receiver
• SR 300 IEM G3 monitoring transmitter
• EM 2000 wireless microphone receiver
• EM 2050 twin wireless microphone receiver
• SR 2000 IEM monitoring transmitter
• SR 2050 IEM twin monitoring transmitter