By Simon Allen
In 2017, Shure switched its flagship wireless system from analogue to digital, under the name Axient Digital. You can read my review of this top-tier wireless system in the September 2018 edition of LSi. With the ever-changing world of the RF spectrum, and increases in demand and expectations from wireless systems at today’s events, Axient has continued to prove itself over the last few years. It is revered as one of the industry’s leading solutions for reliability, scalability, and performance, which we have become accustomed to from Shure.
Shure hasn’t stopped there, however. It continues to develop the Axient ecosystem with new features and additional hardware. Since my review in 2018, in 2021 Shure released the ADX5D, a dual-channel, portable receiver for use with Axient digital transmitters. Designed for use on location, its form factor is built with cameras or mobile broadcast operators in mind.
Released in October 2022 was the AD600; the all-new spectrum manager that can be used to monitor the wireless spectrum in real-time, as well as
manage interference and deploy new frequencies in Axient Digital wireless systems. And finally, earlier in 2022 Shure they also introduced the KSM11, a new top-tier microphone capsule, designed specifically for today’s digital wireless systems.
Many of us in the UK first saw the KSM11 at the PLASA Show in London in September, where I happened to be on the judging panel for the PLASA
Awards for Innovation. There, I was lucky to be given an insight to the new capsule and hear the results of the new technology behind the KSM11. As a panel, we actually chose to award this new microphone (and being part of the process I can attest to how stringent the decision process is!).
In an attempt to cover these latest additions to the Axient Digital eco-system, including the KSM11, I was subsequently invited down to Shure’s HQ to take a deeper look. Previously, I had met with Tuomo Tolonen who has since moved on to be senior director of pro audio for Shure, making way for the equally knowledgeable and enthusiastic Stuart Moots, director of pro audio at Shure UK.
Read the full review at Lighting & Sound International
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