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Previously an unfulfilled dream for many sound engineers: the monitoring and remote control not just of wireless microphones, but also of wireless monitoring via a PC. As the first manufacturer worldwide, audio specialist Sennheiser is showing new Wireless Systems Manager software for its network system NET 1 that makes this possible.
How many devices are currently being used? What frequencies are they transmitting on? What is their status? In the past, in live situations using monitoring and remote control programs on a PC, these questions could only be answered for wireless microphones, but not for wireless monitoring (IEM) systems. In a world premiere at the Winter NAMM in Anaheim, Sennheiser is now demonstrating a preliminary software version that can also control and monitor IEM systems of the ew 300 IEM G2 series from a PC. The transmitters in the wireless monitoring system can be configured using the new software. An IEM receiver scans the frequency banks and transmits interference-free frequencies to the NET 1 network system via an infrared interface. NET 1 then configures the transmitters; afterwards the receivers are synchronized via infrared too. “With this new software, frequency management will become a great deal easier and more efficient”, says Stephan Scherthan, Industry Team Manager at Sennheiser for the music industry. “The complicated, manual search and adjustment of frequencies for each individual device is now a thing of the past. You can control whole wireless systems of the evolution wireless series (except for ew 100 G2), as well as EM 3532 receivers together with SKM 5200 and SK 5212 transmitters, comfortably from a PC in a joint network. It was very important for us to design the user menu and the interfaces (GUIs) so that they were clear and easy to understand.” The full version of the new software is available to download as of March 2007.
As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems, the Sennheiser Group with its headquarters in Wedemark near Hanover, Germany, had total sales of about €300 million in 2005. The export share is 83%. Sennheiser has a total workforce of more than 1,650 employees, of whom about 60% are employed in Germany. Sennheiser is active worldwide and, in addition to other partnerships, has its own sales subsidiaries in France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, China, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and the USA.
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