Product Overview
The Beamforming Microphone Array is the Pro-Audio industry’s first professional-grade microphone array with beamforming and adaptive steering technology and ClearOne's next-generation Acoustic Echo Cancellation.
The ultra-sleek design fits into any conferencing environment and delivers the clearest audio pickup available with adaptive acoustic processing. Twenty-four microphone elements can steer its pickup pattern towards participants in the room and reject unwanted noise and reflections, thereby offering superb and unmatched performance for group conferencing environments.
Applications:
- Board Room
- Conference Room
- Training Center
- Courtroom
- House of Worship
- Telepresence
Features:
- Beamforming & adaptive steering technology
- Next-generation Acoustic Echo Cancellation
- 24 microphone elements
- Mono and stereo modes for diverse applications
- Flexible mounting for ceiling
- Works with CONVERGE® Pro products: 880, 840T, 880T, 880TA
- Expandable for larger room applications by daisy-chaining up to three arrays per CONVERGE Pro unit
- Adaptive acoustic processing automatically adjusts to room configuration for best possible audio pickup
- Replaces up to 10 traditional microphones, with twice the pick-up range
Specifications:
- AUDIO
- Acoustic Characteristics:
- 24 microphones
- Auto voice tracking
- Polar Pattern: Custom
- Frequency Response: 150Hz - 16kHz
- Signal to Noise Ratio: >70 dB
- AEC Tail time: 128 ms
- Noise Cancellation: 6 - 15 dB adjustable
- Auto Mixer Parameters:
- Number of Open Microphones (NOM)
- First mic priority mode
- Last mic mode
- Maximum number of mics mode
- Ambient level
- Gate threshold adjust
- Off attenuation adjust
- Hold time
- Decay rate
- Matrix Mixing Parameters:
- 1 Channel In
- 18 Expansion Bus In/Out
- Beamforming Mic Array Configuration:
- Echo cancellation on/off
- Noise cancellation on/off
- Filters:
- ALC on/off
- Gain adjust
- Mute on/off
- Auto gate/manual gate
- POWER
- PoE IEEE 802.3AF-2003
- CAT-5 cable or higher
- 6 watts average power consumption
- Expansion Bus I/O
- Proprietary Network
- RJ-45 (2)
- Category 5 twisted-pair cable for 200 feet maximum cable length between any two CONVERGE Pro devices
- USB
- Not currently supported. Available for future use
- RS232
- Commands through CONVERGE Pro
- Configuration/Administration Software:
- General:
- 4.4 lbs (2.0kg)
- W 30.0" x H 1.00" x D 5.75" (762mm x 25.4mm x 146mm)
- Ceiling mount kit with 12" spanner
- Ceiling mount kit with 24" spanner
- Operating Temperature: 14° F/-10° C to 122° F/50° C ambient temperature
- Installation
- Optimum Mounting Height: About 8 - 10 foot ceiling
- Optimum Coverage Distance:
- About 6 - 10 traditional cardioid mics
- About 2 - 3 ClearOne ceiling mic array
- About 8 - 10 foot radius
- Supported CONVERGE PRO*
- CONVERGE Pro 840T
- CONVERGE Pro 880
- CONVERGE Pro 880T
- CONVERGE Pro 880TA
- *Maximum 3 Beamforming microphone array per each supported CONVERGE Pro unit and maximum 16 units in one stack
