Spectera

[Erob]

First product I’ve seen using the new WMAS technology. Can’t wait to see what others do with this tech, only a matter of time before us bag mixers get something small enough to use. 
 

 

[Dejan Ceko]

 

[Derek H]

Yes! This looks great and finally some completely new technology in our space. Spectera seems focused on the large event/show $$$ market but if they can build out the system just a little more it could be a good option for location sound. The pricing seems pretty competitive to the other current state of the art options. A Spectera system would be significantly cheaper than a SD Nexus system for example and potentially could do a lot more work. To really work for us I think Sennheiser needs to scale it down a bit and add a few more transmitter offerings. I'd like to see...

 

- Half rack sized base station so you're not limited to rack builds and you could stuff a Spectera system in a bag if need be.. Could probably sacrifice some features to scale down. Dual channel for example or less antenna connections. 

- DC power input on the base station

- Smaller transmitter for use under costume

- A 48V capable transmitter of some sort. Not necessarily a plug-on but that would do. 

 

and that's kind of it for my wishlist.. I gotta say that getting rid of coaxial cable entirely seems like a great direction to be going. 

 

Also, I'd like to know how the system works when you don't have a completely clean 6MHz channel to work with? Let's say you can only find 4MHz really clean and the other 2MHz is strong DTV signal.. does it totally fall apart? Do you just get less channels to work with? I see that it can notch out up to two narrowband transmitters within the channel but this is a different situation. In Chicago I'm not sure there's a clean 6MHz chunk to be had from 470-608! Maybe in the duplex gap but then you're power limited on the transmitter side. Lots of questions!

 

I'm also rooting for Lectrosonics to roll-out a good location-friendly WMAS system at some point that would be more clued in to our specific needs. I'm optimistically hoping that they've been quietly focusing on this and that's why their latest products still have no wireless remote control etc.. 

 

[Dejan Ceko]

 

[Jason Nicholas]

Just reading up on this; sounds like a good pack for things like a boom op where you could head it with an MM-1 and not have to have both a transmitter and receiver. I've not yet watched through the whole video above but I'm assuming that, surely, they will come out with a pack that has 48v power and, ideally, AES so one could use the Schoeps CMD-42 and keep everything in the digital domain throughout. But, wow, good show here with something so versatile with so much in a 1U rack unit.