Like Eos, Ion is designed for today's multimedia lighting rigs - delivering seamless control over conventionals, moving lights and LEDs, says the company. College and community theatres, TV studios and rehearsal halls are among the venues that will benefit from Ion's operational style. With its convenient small footprint - only 48cm wide - Ion is billed as "a compact, affordable solution for space starved venues, with the flexibility to grow even more powerful as needed".
Ion comes in 1000, 1500 and 2000 channel/output configurations and features an integral LCD for softkeys and non-intensity parameter control. The board offers a dedicated master playback fader pair, grand master and blackout switch. For further functionality and power, Ion can connect up to six optional USB fader wings for 240 additional faders - playbacks or submasters - with paging controls.
Ion can be used as a stand-alone desk or networked system with up to four Ion devices, such as additional Ion consoles, Ion Remote Processor Units, Net3 Remote Video Interfaces or computers running Eos/Ion client software. The Net3 Radio Focus Remote allows for remote control of lighting rigs. Ion can also be used as a client on an Eos system, where it will support the full output of that system.
(Jim Evans)
