Sennheiser has announced its Spectera Pioneer Program, an educational offering that gives selected customers from live audio and broadcasting to learn Sennheiser’s new Spectera ecosystem.
The first round of participants have received Spectera systems, with Sennheiser’s Technical Application Engineering (TAE) team providing hands-on training.
The program aims to provide feedback on how Spectera can be adapted to the day-to-day workflow of its users, with participants in the program receiving a Spectera base station with the respective RF license, up to 24 SEK bidirectional bodypacks, eight DAD intelligent transceiving antennas, MADI cards, and LinkDesk software. Immediate on-site and remote support is available from the TAE team, with access to a protected website with a range of training materials, user documentation, release notes, and a download area for the latest firmware and LinkDesk version.
A Discord channel has also been set up to allow for rapid feedback, bug reporting, Q&A, and community decisions.
Additional details on Spectera have also been revealed surrounding the various audio link modes that the bidirectional bodypacks can operate on. These mods apply to mics, IEMS or both mics and IEMs, varying in the latency, range, number of audio links, audio quality (codec used) and battery runtime. The modes can be chosen individually per device, and differently for the mic and the IEM on any given SEK bodypack.
Dr Andreas Sennheiser, co-CEO, Sennheiser, commented: “Spectera is an ever-evolving ecosystem that will continuously be fine-tuned and shaped by input from our end users,” explains Dr Andreas Sennheiser, co-CEO. “The Pioneer Program is a testament to this ambition. While operators can familiarise themselves with the new, user-friendly workflows enabled by Spectera, we are engaging in a dialogue to collect valuable insights to further shape the ecosystem regarding devices, performance and features.”