Schoeps Microphones Launches CMD 42 Digital Microphone Amplifier for Colette Series

At the NAB Show 2024, Schoeps introduced the aptly named CMD 42 Digital Colette Amplifier, a product announcement supporting the (unfairly forgotten) AES42 digital interface standard. Something might explain why it took so long, since the Schoeps Colette microphone series is so popular in film sound and sound design, and the CMD 42 totally redefines the possibilities with AES42.

German microphone brand Schoeps launched its best-selling modular microphone series Colette in a matched set, packed in a handy and robust Peli Case. The company called it the Desert Island Stereo Set, and inside the Peli case we can find two CMC 1 U microphone amplifiers (Ref No. 132011) and two MK, axially aligned microphone capsules (No. 1310xxm), as a matched pair. The set includes a certificate of matching for the capsules and doesn't forget two SG 20 stand clamps.

The Cinema Audio Society in Hollywood announced its nominees for its 58th Annual Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2021. The prestigious awards extend to seven creative categories, as well as ten Outstanding Product nominees. After a virtual event in 2021, the Awards ceremony returns as a live event on Saturday, March 19, 2022 in the Wilshire Grand Ballroom at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

German microphone manufacturer Schoeps announced a new set of two software plug-ins which will be an ideal complement for creative microphone use, now available via the online software distributor Plugin Alliance. The first is the Double MS plugin, which decodes a Double MS microphone setup to a stereophonic signal. Available for AAX, VST3 and AU formats, this free plug-in takes 3 microphone signals and provides a 2.0 Stereo or 5.0 Surround output using an algorithm developed by Swiss audio processing specialist Illusonic. The second is the Mono Upmix plugin that turns a mono signal into a pleasantly open sounding stereophonic or LCR signal.

At the recent European Championships athletics competition in Berlin (August 7-12), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) conducted successful trials of a broadcast production environment mixing to both Dolby AC-4 and MPEG-H 7.0.4 channel-based formats with English and French commentary, and English and French Audio Description as object channels, feeding channel direct outputs for an MPEG-H High Order Ambisonic mix simultaneously. Solid State Logic provided a fully IP-based System T solution for the EBU-Eurovision.

In this International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2013 report, audioXpress editor-in-chief João Martins looks at how the industry transitioned to 4K and how audio is following with new solutions for multichannel production and distribution. The article was published as Bonus content to existing subscribers with audioXpress Jan. 2014.