The new CEDAR DNS 4 is the latest and most advanced portable model in the DNS series. DNS stands for "dialogue noise suppressor" and its origins go back to live broadcast and location recording applications, where it is critical to "clean" voices and speech from existing ambient noise. In 2016, CEDAR unveiled the DNS 2 dialogue noise suppressor, designed specifically for location sound recordists and almost immediately became the most successful product in the company's history. It eliminates traffic noise, air conditioning, wind, rain and general background noise. It also helps to compensate for unfavorable acoustic conditions and poor microphone placement, and suppresses excessive reverberation.
The DNS 4 is not a replacement for any existing CEDAR product. It has been designed to complement the DNS 2 and the DNS 8D, being ideal for users who require more than two channels of DNS in a portable rather than a rackmount package. It's suitable for use in all situations - location recording, live-to-air broadcasting and live sound in venues such as theaters, concert halls, conferences venues and places of worship, as well as in the studio. With its Hirose HR-10 power input and mini-XLRs for many connections, it takes up little more space than the industry-standard DNS 2, and yet doubles the number of channels available.
Following in the footsteps of its Emmy, Academy Award, IABM Award and Cinema Audio Society Award-winning predecessors, the DNS 4 uses a high-resolution 40-bit floating-point processor in a design that is fast and simple to use. The DNS algorithm requires nothing more than switching on the Learn function that identifies and adapts to the background noise, and then adjusting the amount of noise attenuation required.
Notwithstanding this simplicity, this real-time voice processing system can achieve remarkable results. What's more, despite being portable and convenient, it offers analog line and ultra low-noise microphone inputs (the latter with optional 48V phantom powering), AES3/AES11 digital inputs, and both analog and digital outputs. And, to increase its flexibility still further, it runs on 12V power so it can be used in the middle of a field as easily as in the studio or edit suite.
The first chance to see the DNS 4 in action will be at the IBC2022 Convention in Amsterdam (September 9-12), where CEDAR will officially launch the DNS 4. First units will be shipping before the end of September. CEDAR also licenses all its processing algorithms and tools for integration into third-party hardware devices and offers a complete suite of post-production software tools.
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