Already established in staging, live sound and broadcast, UK manufacturer Glensound has expanded its Dark family of microphone interfaces with the Dark2MAI (with two inputs) and the Dark4MAI (with four), both sharing the same high-quality mic amps as the rest of the range for use as critical inputs or to quickly be added to a network.
Providing a simple, convenient and reliable way to bring in sources and add them to a Dante network, these are compact and powered by PoE, offering phantom power for condenser microphones and redundant network connections over both fibre and copper.
The Dark22M is a compact two-input, two-output box, giving flexibility when rigging. Still powered from the network, or from a power brick if there is a convenient feed, this gives engineers the ability to send audio feeds including cues, two-ways and confidence monitors, at full quality, as well as providing the two network inputs. Latency across the whole Dark range is minimal, allowing engineers to build an audio network best suited to a given applicatiion.
The Dark22M includes gain controls on the box, and all Dark devices can be controlled over the network, using the free GlenController Windows app or any network device controller using UDP.
USB Interfacing to a PC is also included, allowing the Dark22M to act as a high performance USB/analogue audio interface and a high performance USB/Dante audio interface.
‘These new additions to the Dark product range come from conversations with our users in live events and in broadcast,’ says Glensound MD, Marc Wilson. ‘They explain the problems they face day to day, and we help them find ways to solve them, with new designs if necessary.’
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