The electronic aiming previously available with DDC products, which can be thought of as aiming and focusing a light, allows users to aim the vertical beam onto the audience area from the acoustic centre of the array, say Duran Audio.
DDS users are offered the complete opposite; using Duran Audios DDA (Digital Directivity Analysis) software the user can define the array position and the audience area and allow the DDS algorithm to produce the best possible directivity for that array in the given location. The result is a complex dispersion pattern that "fits" the audience area, say Duran Audio. DDS makes it possible to achieve the kind of results, even SPL coverage and high direct to reverberant ratio, previously seen in a perfect DDC environment, where you have a flat audience area, in the most complex of spaces.
Duran Audio can be found on stand FF100 on the Top Deck.
(Lee Baldock)
