Applications
Corporate AV and Conference Sound Systems
Corporate audio is a speech problem with a production budget. Everything that helps the room look good tends to hurt the way it sounds.
What this application asks of a system
The typical corporate room is a hotel ballroom or a convention hall: a low hard ceiling, a lot of glass, air handling running at full output, and banquet rounds that absorb sound at exactly head height. The audience is seated wide rather than deep, which is the opposite of what a narrow array wants, and the presenter is on a lavalier microphone walking towards the loudspeakers.
That combination puts gain before feedback, not maximum SPL, at the centre of the design. Pattern control that keeps energy off the presenter's microphone and off the reflective back wall buys more usable level than another kilowatt does. Delay positions matter too, because a room that is wide and shallow still has a back third that would otherwise sit in the reverberant field.
Then there is the schedule. A conference rigs in and out inside a working day, often over carpet, in a room that has to look like a boardroom rather than a venue. Systems get pole-mounted, ground-stacked or hung from a single point, cable runs have to be dressed and hidden, and the hybrid feed to remote attendees has to be as intelligible as the room itself.
What we look at first
- Speech intelligibility first: pattern control and coverage before output
- Gain before feedback with lavalier and lectern microphones in the coverage pattern
- Wide shallow rooms and the delay or fill positions that keep the back third out of the reverberant field
- The hybrid feed: what the remote audience hears is a mix, not the room
- Rig and de-rig inside a working day, with cabling that can be dressed and hidden
- Permanent boardroom and meeting-room installs, where the audio should be invisible
Recommended SSOUNDS products
Grouped by the job each product does in this kind of system. Specifications live on the product pages and in the data sheets, so nothing is restated here.
Main system
Compact, sightline-friendly arrays for ballrooms, conference halls and auditoria.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS XTO 4.6
Column element of the XTO System, passive line array, 4 × 6.5″ drivers, 65 Hz – 20 kHz and 134 dB peak in a sightline-friendly column.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS XTO 8P
Compact element of the XTO System, 2-way bi-amplified 8″, 110° constant directivity, 141 dB peak, 0°–10° splay.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS LS208
Compact dual-8″ line-array element, 141 dB peak, 55 Hz reach and 100° coverage from a 26 kg box.
Fill and delay
Side seats, back thirds, breakout areas and overflow rooms.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS M-4
Ultra-compact 4″ full-range, discreet fill and foreground audio with M-rigging.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS M-6
Compact 6.5″ full-range, versatile install and portable speaker with M8 rigging.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS M-8
8″ full-range, high-output multipurpose box for portable PA, fill and install.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS M-10
10″ full-range, compact mains or monitor with strong vocal projection.
Distributed ceiling audio
Meeting rooms, boardrooms, corridors and reception, on 70/100 V lines or low impedance.
Subwoofers
Enough low end for walk-in music, video playback and a keynote sting, without dominating a speech room.
Amplification and processing
System processing, zone alignment and network audio into the wider AV system.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS D14X
4-channel DSP amplifier with FIR, line-array power plus full system processing and presets.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS A14X
4-channel touring amplifier for line arrays, 4 × 2,000 W @ 4 Ω, analog input.
SSOUNDS
SSOUNDS DSP 4×8
4-in / 8-out loudspeaker processor, 96 kHz, 1/36-octave filters and full system alignment.
LED video
Fine-pitch walls for keynote stages, boardrooms, lobbies and control rooms.
AIXCEL
AIXCEL FP Fine-Pitch Indoor LED Wall
P1.2 / P1.5 / P1.8 fine-pitch indoor LED, seamless 16:9 panels for boardrooms, studios and control rooms.
Unilumin
Unilumin UpanelS
Fully front-serviceable 16:9 fine-pitch wall, native 2K/4K/8K builds from P0.9 to P2.5.
Unilumin
Unilumin UMini III Pro
Flip-chip COB micro-pitch. P0.9, 30,000:1 contrast, cool-touch boardroom flagship.
Gloshine
Gloshine DN Series
Fine-pitch indoor rental down to P1.25, straight, curved and 45° beveled cabinets.
Why these products. The XTO 8P and LS208 both name corporate AV in their product description, the XTO 4.6 names premium corporate AV, and the M-12SUB names corporate AV. The CL6 and CL8 are described as commercial and architectural install ceiling speakers with 70/100 V tapping. The AIXCEL FP names boardrooms, the UpanelS names corporate lobbies and control rooms, the UMini III Pro names boardrooms, and the Gloshine DN names conference staging.
Guides for this application
Get this specced for your room
Send us the drawings, the seat count and what the room has to do. Our engineers model the coverage and come back with a product list, a rigging plan and a budget.