Electro-Voice NetMax N8000 Brochure

This Factory Direct was submitted by
Electro-Voice.

Live Sound makes every

effort to eliminate any use of market­ing inspired hyperbole.

A

udio professionals have the
challenge of designing sys-

tems to satisfy the increasing
requirement for feature-rich, higher
quality audio systems that are more
intuitive and ergonomically correct,
yet simultaneously keep with the cur­rent technological state of the art. One
area of increased development is that
of integrated systems, with network­able and software controlled systems
rapidly becoming a popular choice.
But, at the end of the day, with all of
the options that are available, what is
the best choice?

Electro-Voice (EV) has made major
investments in this trend with the
development of the NetMax, a modu-

lar audio routing and control hard­ware and the IRIS-Net software plat­form. NetMax is a hardware system
that provides analog and digital audio
routing; mixing and matrixing;
CobraNet audio networking; digital
signal processing (DSP); and a variety
of options for data connection and
control, TCP/IP networking, remote
control and supervision. In addition,
the IRIS-Net software platform inte­grates the control and configuration of
many products under the Telex Pro
Audio umbrella into a single, open­sour

ce software application.

IRIS-NET

EV’s IRIS-Net software is the latest ver­sion of the I.R.I.S. (Intelligent Remote­Integrated Supervision) audio control
and supervision software platfor

m.
First developed in 2001, it was
released in 2002 as the control, config­uration and monitoring platfor

m for
the proprietary Precision Series DSP
Remote Contr

olled Amplifiers. Since
then, IRIS has been used in many high
profile applications including 2005’s
Houston Rodeo, Live 8 and on Kenny
Chesney’s

Somewher

e in the SunTour

.

IRIS-Net pr

ovides a complete set of
tools for real-time control and moni­toring of an audio system down to the
transducer level. Details such as signal
levels,

component temperature,

impedance, output current and volt-

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Live Sound International March 2006

Total Audio Solutions

Electro-Voice offers total solutions with NetMax and IRIS-Net

By Ethan Wetzell

The EV NetMax N8000 audio processing and matrix system.