Following on from the launch of its line of Performance Pouches, Ursa has announced the Live Range, including the Spectera compatible Live Pouch exploiting ten years’ experience in discreet body-worn equipment placement.
The pouches have been designed in collaboration with industry professionals, including Sennheiser UK’s Technical Applications Engineer for Pro Audio, Marcus Blight. In typical theatrical fashion, there have also been a variety of unexpected applications for the pouches and belts, including their use for blood-packs and even for the quick creation of reverse-radios, or onstage wireless loudspeaker rigs.
Sennheiser Spectera is the world’s first wideband bidirectional digital wireless ecosystem. From a single device, performers can now send and receive audio, removing the need for separate transmitters and IEM receivers. This innovation means that the bodypack has multiple connections, with a headphone jack and microphone 3-pin Lemo connector, plus a volume dial and single antenna.
Working with advice from Blight, Ursa founders Simon Bysshe and Laura Smith developed a pouch that could easily accommodate these features, ensuring that everything performers and engineers need are easily accessible.
A vailable directly from the company website, the Ursa Spectera pouch is made from Ursa’s signature fabric and features an off-centre strap that holds the bodypack securely in place. This strap also features an aperture to snugly fit the volume control, but spin the pack 180° and that strap can also be secured over the microphone’s Lemo connection, offering additional security and strain relief.
A loop in the rear of the pouch features Ursa’s familiar low-profile brass poppers, so it can be easily and quickly secured to a belt, guitar strap, or even the handle of a mixing console flightcase.
‘The Ursa Performance Pouch range meets an often-overlooked demand with products that are full of useful features,’ Blight concludes. ‘The adjusted position of the Velcro tab is a great example of this; it’s a small change that had made a big difference. Working with Ursa has been great. Collaboration is very important to us at Sennheiser and getting to chat through ideas with Simon and the team has been very interesting.’