Shure has announced Axient Digital PSM, its first digital wireless in-ear monitoring solution for top-tier touring acts and large-scale productions.
Axient Digital PSM has been designed and developed to meet the demands of touring professionals and rental houses, ensuring high-performance RF and spectral efficiency for the evolving wireless landscape. This new digital in-ear monitoring system is Shure’s first Wireless Multichannel Audio System (WMAS) enabled product line, empowering audio professionals to adapt to a wide variety of environments.
‘For nearly a century, Shure has pioneered innovative solutions that help solve our customers’ problems while moving the industry forward,’ says Shure Senior Director of Global Marketing and Product Management, Nick Wood, ‘Now, Axient Digital PSM offers a revolutionary digital radio with WMAS capabilities, remote management for engineers, and a pristine audio experience for performers.
‘To unlock new possibilities and applications, Shure is dedicated to advocating for spectrum efficiency and WMAS regulations worldwide. Axient Digital PSM takes advantage of this opportunity, giving users more resources to optimise performance and make the best possible use of spectrum, now and in the future.’
With a next-generation digital radio and sophisticated headphone amplifier design, performers have high audio quality and signal reliability, with less than 2.9ms latency. Powered by Shure WMAS, Axient Digital PSM features a multichannel wideband mode that significantly increases spectral efficiency. With multichannel wideband mode, users can free up radios for improved RF performance or channel count scalability.
Spatial Diversity employs two transmit diversity antennas, each sending an identical signal on the same frequency, providing a new, easier option for supporting separate zones and optimising coverage for stadiums, indoor venues and broadcast studios. When Spatial Diversity transmitters engage with True Digital Diversity bodypack receivers, Axient Digital PSM combines four discrete signal paths per channel to deliver advanced protection against multipath interference and RF noise.
Axient Digital PSM transmitters support both analogue and digital input formats, including AES3, Dante, and AES67, which enables monitor engineers to easily connect to modern consoles. Standard AES256 encryption is available for secure transmission.
Axient Digital PSM features two single rack space transmitter options: ADTQ Quad Transmitter and ADTD Dual Transmitter. Both offer four flexible and transmission modes. Multi-channel Wideband (available regionally according to WMAS regulations) supports up to 28 channels per 6MHz in the US and 40 channels per 8MHz in Europe. This exceeds the FCC requirement for WMAS to have a mode of operation in which it can operate with at least three audio channels per MHz. The Narrowband mode provides access to more RF output power per channel and maintains spectral efficiency at 17 channels per 6MHz. Analog mode FM allows high-quality audio with ultra-low latency and Axient Digital Standard (Point-to-Point Mode) enables users to send long-distance audio to any Axient Digital microphone receiver. It will be available through a post-launch firmware update.
Axient Digital PSM is supported by Shure’s Wireless Workbench and ShowLink ecosystem, giving a monitor engineer comprehensive remote management of every bodypack receiver on stage, with a visible display of key parameters and the ability to make adjustments if necessary.
With ShowLink, real-time control enables continuous monitoring of all bodypack receivers, including channel quality, battery life, volume position and headphone connect status. Remote management indicates when it’s time to swap batteries, when to intervene if channel quality is compromised, resolve volume control issues for the artist, and troubleshoot faster.
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