As Zaxcom's exclusive UK dealer, Orbital Sound is giving centre stage to the diminutive Zaxcom TRX900, which is being headlined as the industry's first digital wireless microphone transceiver with built-in IFB facility. With applications in ENG, and in film and television production, it also offers a back-up recording capability, as Tim Sherratt, Technical Director at Orbital Sound, outlined:
"This apparently simple step of integrating an IFB receiver with the tiny transmitter has opened up some extremely useful and powerful possibilities. Audio output is linear and inherently of very high quality - virtually indistinguishable from a cabled microphone - while the digital modulation ensures the design is free of intermodulation artefacts: up to 30 TRX900 transmitters can be operated simultaneously within the same block of frequencies. Individual sound recordists, as well as recordist-and-camera crews, will benefit from the system's flexibility in a number of scenarios, from establishing stereo camera links, to stereo links with internal back-up recording, while using the integrated IFB facility to deliver a confidence return signal, complete with time code, back to a TRX900."
At BVE 2009, Orbital Sound is also showing the Telex Communications' BTR intercom systems, including the BTR-800 two-channel UHF frequency-agile wireless intercom system, and the BTR-700 single-channel base station. These products are complemented by the RTS brand from Telex Communications, which is based on 40 years' experience of the broadcast sector. Products include the ADAM, ADAM-CS and ZEUS Digital Matrix Intercom Systems.
(Jim Evans)
