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Orbital Scoops Fifth ABTT Best Sound Product Award for Zaxcom
Theatre sound specialist Orbital has scooped its fifth successive ABTT award. Recognised as the voice of the technical theatre industry, the award for Best Sound Product was presented by ABTT Secretary Robin Townley to Orbital’s Theo Holloway for the innovative Zaxcom digital radio mic system.
As the dealers for the Zaxcom RF range in the UK, Orbital has embraced the potential of Zaxcom as a revolutionary tool designed and manufactured in New Jersey, USA. Successfully illustrating its capacity of this powerful system it has been deployed on shows including, Sunday in the Park with George at The Wyndams Theatre, Cabaret at The Lyric, Little Shop of Horrors at The Duke of Yorks and on The Producers’ now on its first National tour.
The success of Zaxcom's TRX 900 system in theatre environments is down its unique technology that can "cluster" a large number of microphones into one frequency block without interference or inter-modulation. The TRX900 uses conventional frequency range between 518 - 870 MHz but due to its use of 100% digital modulation is considerably less prone to intermodulation. 30-plus channels can be fitted into a single 30Mhz wide frequency range, meaning a theoretical 200 plus units can be used simultaneously in the UK.
This impacts greatly as a means to counter the impending legislative changes being imposed by Ofcom where entire blocks of available bandwidths may be sold off for use in the broader telecommunications, mobile phone and digital TV markets.
ABTT Secretary, Robin Townley, commented: “The Zaxcom Digital Radio mic system available form Orbital Sound with its forward thinking application of digital technology was very impressive. Cost effective but using digital modulation to its full advantage the Zaxcom system provides high quality audio via a robust and resilient digital broadcast protocol, which also offers distinct advantages when having to fit multiple mic channels into the ever reducing frequency bands available.”
In picture: Orbital’s Theo Holloway with ABTT’s Best Sound Product Award 2007.
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