It’s no secret that sight is our dominant sense. It dictates or influences nearly all of our daily decisions – from what to wear, to the color of your favorite coffee mug, to whether the cover of a book looks interesting. So it makes sense that businesses focus a great deal on the visual attributes [...]
Biamp first introduced an analog telephone interface with the AudiaFLEX TI-2 card, followed soon after with the Nexia TC. Recently we’ve released the STC-2 card for Tesira, which shows our ongoing support of analog telephony. In this blog post we’ll discuss some basic terms of telephony and then dive in to programming and troubleshooting the [...]
Most commercial audio equipment designers and manufacturers don’t have this. It makes sense that Biamp would though, because we do things a little differently here. What are we talking about? Our 5-year equipment warranty, of course. Every company wants to differentiate themselves from their competitors in some way. Some companies go with mascots, catchy jingles, [...]
Our training channel on YouTube features a bevy!/plethora!/cornucopia! of technically-oriented videos about some of our most commonly requested programming and configuration issues. Subjects range from how to use NexLink in our Nexia® family, to configuring paging zones in Vocia®, to using the Tesira® TEC-1 wall control, just to name a few. We recently added a Spanish channel, too. Our [...]
True to our goals of learning and sharing as much about the AV and IT industries as possible, Biamp Systems will be attending over 30 national, international, and regional tradeshows and conferences in 2013. As AV and IT continue to converge, Biamp is staying on top of changes in the industry. One of the best [...]
Even though our products are very reliable (they come with a five-year warranty), the reality is that all gear occasionally fails in the field. Shocking, huh? Although we’d like to say we’ve seen it all, we still get surprised once in a while. We’ve received units from desert environments that were full of sand, and [...]
Automatic mixers (Automixers) balance multiple sound sources based on each source’s level, quickly and dramatically adjusting the various signal levels automatically. They lower the hiss, reverberation and other extraneous noise that occur when several microphones operate simultaneously. Typically Automixers should only be used for installations with multiple microphones, and they offer the following benefits: Improved [...]
Although EN54 does not include explicit specifications for some network equipment, such as switches, below is a list of products that have been used in existing EN54-16 compliant Vocia installations. This is not an exhaustive list of third party products suitable for use with Vocia. Please confer with the applicable Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) for [...]
Why and when do we need presets? Presets are a quick and efficient way to recall a known configuration of one or multiple DSP blocks. The process of creating presets is the same for Audia or Nexia software. A preset resides in the layout file (.dap or .nex) and can be recalled from the Audia/Nexia [...]
It’s hard to stay aware of all of the features and capabilities that a robust system like Vocia offers. Here are a few things you might not know: Vocia knows when paging station microphones stop working When a microphone is not in use, the paging station “listens” for ambient (background) acoustic noise. If it cannot [...]
