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Accessory Shopping?
- ATS-Ram Mounts enable you to mount and secure equipment & devices like wireless, radios, video monitors, mics, lights, small cameras, and more
to carts, shelves, racks, walls, tables, stands, etc.
- Mount your cell phone, ipod, GPS, etc. in your car, bike, boat, plane, etc.
- Mount your Laptop computer securely in your car, truck, boat or plane.
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Promotions & Sales
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Intercom & IFB over IP
 Tthe next generation professional intercom system is available now. This all software system replaces hardware matrix frames and push button panels and puts a full featured multi channel intercom station on any Windows PC or wireless hand held device such as PDA’s & cell phones. The Vcom Virtual Matrix software runs on a internet /intranet connected Windows PC or Server and can intelligently interface with hardware matrices, 2 way radios, telco modems /hybrids, and other devices for audio and control signaling. The Virtual Matrix is easily scalable to hundreds of channels by simply re-licensing the software.
The Virtual Matrix can interface with and interconnect any hardware matrix intercom system, 2-way radios, telco modems, and other audio circuits.
The Client Control Panel emulates a hardware panel and runs on any Windows PC or MAC w/ Bootcamp. The Windows Mobile version runs on smart phones under Windows Pocket PC with a WiFi or broadband connection. We offer a variety of high quality noise canceling wired & Blue Tooth headsets and interfacing to allow pro headsets as well.
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New Microphones
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Audio Technica
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ATS Communications introduces Earthworks High Definition microphones to the video production market.
Designed, built, & QC’d in a small factory in New Hampshire, Earthworks manufactures the most technically advanced line of microphones anywhere.
Highly accurate, flat extended frequency response, extremely fast impulse response, textbook polar patterns and time coherency are just a few of the criteria that Earthworks engineers strive to perfect in all of their products, and they do! From directional condenser mics for boom poles and narration to omni mics for orchestral and nature recordings, to goose neck mics for podiums & musical instruments, these are among the highest quality mics available. They can be ordered as matched stereo pairs.
While among the highest quality and most accurate mics available, they are also FAR from the highest price mics on the market.
SPECIAL PRICING is available to educational institutions AND to students. Call for details
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Earthworks also makes some of the highest quality external Mic Preamps available, with flat responses up to 100kHz
Feedback & Leakage free High Definition Piano Micing System
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Sanken COS-11D series Lavalieres
 The COS-11 has been updated with an RF filter for use with digital wireless transmitters, improved water resistant screen, more pliable wire with better clamping, and 4 color choices while maintaining the audio characteristics that made the original COS-11 famous.
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Microphones
ATS Communications introduces Audix Microphones to the video production market.
Audix is an American company that designs & QC’s their products in the U.S. Most of their microphone products are built here. Quality is not compromised while the value is held high.
 The Micro line of RF resistant condenser microphones are high quality ultra miniature mics offered with a variety of patterns and options. With sizes as small as a AA battery, the sound quality these mics produce will surprise you, and so will the price.
 Recently announced for the Micros is a 50” boom wand that can fit on any mic stand. Ultra light weight, internally wired with a short gooseneck at the head for positioning and less than 3/8” diameter, it can even be hand held.
 The SCX-1 is a killer condenser pencil mic with changeable capsules for far less than you’d expect to pay. This is an excellent indoor boom mic. Very low noise with great freq. responses for dialog & music.
 The SCX-25 is a small and beautiful large diaphragm condenser mic for vocals & voice overs. The completely isolated capsule eliminates the need for a shock mount.
Audix offers several large diaphragm mics for studio voice overs, and hand held mics for on-camera and vocal applications.
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Phonak ProVocanto Ultra miniature earloop mic 
Very high quality, comfortable, stable, less than 2 grams in weight and fully adjustable for any head & face shape..
Plug adapters available for most wireless transmitters.
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Zaxcom Fusion Solid State Mixer /Recorder
 8 /12 analog In - 8 analog Out
- 4 AES pairs In /Out
- 10 or 12 track recording
to redundant CF cards
(no HDD)
- 3 matrix mixers
 - Input >Record Tracks
Input > Output;
Input >Headphones
- Metadata entry,
- Time Code master & slave
- Optional DSP on every input:
EQ, Compression & Gating
- Optional Mix 8 fader /control surface
- Lots more featurest
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Cedar Audio
Live and Post Dialog Noise Suppression
Working with live audio or posting tracks recorded on location often requires dealing with environmental noise - traffic, wind, airplanes, etc. These are real time noise suppression devices you can set up quickly just minutes before air or on a tight editing deadline.
 DNS1500
The successor to the Academy Award winning DNS1000 dialogue noise suppressor.
Since the birth of digital audio, engineers have been striving to provide high quality digital noise reduction with no appreciable delay between input and output. The DNS1500 provides superb noise suppression with a latency of merely 1/400th of a frame. No more loading hard disks, no more slipping against timecode, no more frame stores... just the highest quality noise suppression in real real-time.
 DNS3000
Fully automated dialogue noise suppression with scenes, memories, moving faders and full Pro Tools (Mac OSX and Windows XP) integration.
The DNS3000 is the latest generation of CEDAR's Dialogue Noise Suppression technology, combining the tactile control surface of the original DNS1000 with the Pro Tools integration (Mac- and PC- based) of the DNS2000, plus much more.
Cedar Audio for Post Production
Cedar Audio offers several other leading hardware /software noise reduction and audio restoration products for dialog & music, from the Flagship Cambridge restoration system & server, to the Protools oriented DNS2000 or the six Cedar Tools products, to dedicated products for AMS Neve consoles, and Pyramix & Sadie editing systems.
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TRX Digital Wireless /Recording Mics
with Integrated IFB Return Channel
Zaxcom, the inventor of the Digital Wireless Microphone System, has now invented Digital Recording Wireless and Digital Transceivers for high quality audio transmission. This second generation digital system represents the beginning of a new model of work flow that will modernize (and improve) the means by which location audio is recorded, transmitted, stored, and transferred to post and transcription.
The TRX system completes the wireless audio work flow whether used for wireless microphones or for camera audio link. In fact, with the recording option for non-live work, the Zaxcom TRX is the first wireless system that does not require RF !
The three piece Cam Link system integrates and replaces 9 separate components offering superior performance and lighter weight, bulk and power load. The functions of two Tx /Rx pairs for stereo audio to the camera, another pair for confidence audio from the camera, a stereo plus SMPTE time code digital recorder for back up and transcription, and another wireless pair for recording time code from the camera are seamlessly integrated.
As a wireless mic system, every belt pack can have in integrated IFB receiver for live talent cueing. For non-live work, every belt pack can have an integrated digital audio recorder capturing up to 12 hours of audio with SMPTE time code from camera. With this feature you have a virtual multitrack recorder with an unlimited number of channels enabling you to deliver separate audio tracks for each microphone to your editor.
The TRX-900 bodypack and the TRX-800 handheld can be ordered as recorders only (no transmission).
See our Zaxcom Page for more.
      
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Universal Replacement Antennae
Cut to length for any frequency block, available with SMA, SSMA, & LEMO connectors for Zaxcom & Sennheiser wireless & others.
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RF Analyzers
Blind Faith, Educated Guesses & Intuition are a thing of the past with the New Spectran HF4040
the World's First Affordable RF Field Spectrum Analyzer!
For Wide Band Spectrum Analysis
  Introducing Spectran, the world's first affordable handheld field spectrum analyzer (NOT a scanner) which eliminates all of the guess work of setting up wireless microphones and any other radio product. Threee models are available in different RF ranges from 1MHz to 7 GHz allowing you to view all RF activity and potential interference in the wireless bands Eliminate Channel Selection Guessing!
No more RF Ambushing!
When connected via USB to a computer, the Spectran serves up even more information with a comprehensive multi-windowed full color display and interactivity with the analyzer plus recording and playback functions.
 
NEW - The Invisible Waves product range is a software based analyzer designed to be more “Audio Engineer” friendly for those who are not RF Techies.
Operational controls are simplified while maintaining and even improving on the already comprehensive set of displays and reports
For Wifi /2.4GHz Spectrum, Analysis
  If you are setting up Wi-Fi networks in your facitlity, the Air Sleuth is a PC software based 2.4GHz Wi-Fi analyzer with 10 graphical analysis displays.
Pair it with the Air Horn PC software based 2.4GHz signal generator /transmitter to evaluate the effective coverage area of your installed Wi-fi antenae array.
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Camera DVR’s
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 Convergent Design Flash XDR
First camera DVR with HD-SDI Input.
• High Quality Sony MPEG2 CODEC
• MPEG2 4:2:2 Full-Raster (1920 x 1080)
• Long-GOP up to 100 Mbps,
I-Frame up to 160 Mbps
•Industry Standard MXF (OP-1A) File Format
• XML Based MetaData
• RAID 1 (Redundant) Recording Capability
• Hot-swappable, non-volatile, highly reliable
• Widely available, low-cost, 32GB costs ≈ US $150
•16/24-Bit Uncompressed Audio
• Uncompressed 8/10-bit 4:2:2 Option (Fall 2008)
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CoolCam is a unique product designed as a light weight & portable but very professional camera crane for both camcorders & broadcast quality cameras. All models can be either tripod mounted or body worn on the supplied harness for the ultimate in mobility and creativity.
The New Cool Cam XL Remote Pan Tilt Head
and new remote camera controller for the Toshiba cameras are now available. Not only can we offer a compact and smooth pan tilt head with full remote controls, but the Toshiba TU-51, 61 & HD-1 cameras can now be remotely shaded
with iris, control & tally.
CoolCam HD
is now available for Toshiba, Silicon Imaging, Ikegami,
Sony & Panasonic 720P/1080i/1080P cameras
GO TO COOLCAM PAGE
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AJA video Mini & Rack Mounted video & audio converters include SDI & HD-SDI up /down & cross conversion, distribution, reclocking, 3G multiplexing, audio embedding, A</>D, DVI-D & HDMI Conversion, & more.
AJA’s FS-1 is a Universal SD/HD Audio/Video Frame Synchronizer and Converter. Featuring a flexible "everything in, everything out" architecture, the FS1 can simultaneously work with both HD and SD video—all in full 10-bit Broadcast quality video and 24-bit audio.
AJA's Io HD is an effortless, transportable plug-in solution to working with HD and SD in Final Cut Pro 6 on a Macbook Pro or Mac Pro computer. With a single FireWire 800 connection, Io HD supports the amazing new Apple ProRes 422 Codec—natively, in hardware, to bring production-quality HD editing to laptops!
Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) in hardware, enabling true 10-bit editing on an Apple laptop. With this high performance hardware and codec, you can work on the road with 720 and 1080 HD, all in full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2 and in realtime!
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Remote Head Cameras for Pan/Tilt, POV, Cranes
We use these cameras on our CoolCam Camera Crane. They are also excellent for POV & Pan/Tilt projects.
 Toshiba’s IK-TU51 (1/3” OR 1/2” SD)
& IK-HD1 (1920x1080 HD) cameras
3x1/3” CCD, C-Mount, HD-SDI
Silicon Imaging SI-1920 x1080 camera
1x2/3” CMOS, C-Mount, HD-SDI
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SMPTE Time Code from HDV Cameras
 Want to get SMPTE time code out of
Sony or Canon HDV Camcorders?
The Time Tool does just that.
Plug this tiny box into the LANC port, and it will not only output SMPTE with user programmable user bits, it also LOGS up to 16,000 takes in internal flash memory. Log data downloads to PC via USB port.
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The evolution of high powered LED emitters has spawned new devices from flashlights to stage lighting.
The new Zylight is a first of it’s kind intelligent lighting instrument for television production is now in its 2nd generation. The small, light weight Zylight will find uses as a camera light and on stands for wall washes and effects.
The Zylight Z50 throws 160 degrees of soft, fully dimmable, exceptionally even light.
White mode offers calibrated 3200k and 5600k output.
In Color mode, dial in any color, including pastels, and program your favorite presets. Presets store color, intensity & pastel settings. Rear panel display shows RGB color values with industry standard Gel settings.
Zylight’s Z90 is 4 times brighter than the Z50 and has a 60degree sweet spot with gradual fall-off beyond that. In addition to the calibrated white and color modes, a unique color balance mode will match the Z90 against any ambient light by varying the white point between 2500-9000 degrees Kelvin
When using two or more Zylights, Link mode enables a change in one fixture setting to wirelessly control and change other fixtures to the same setting. 10 wireless channels are available in the Z90.
And there’s more!
 The Z-Remote is a hand held battery operated wireless remote and DMX control interface. In addition to full control over Z50 & Z90 functions, the Z-Remote offers programmable intensity & color fades with settable limits.
See the whole story
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Compact, high powered LED camera lights with matched, color specific temperature emitters.
The TL-68 is a 45 Watt 5600K light consuming only 5W of power.
The kit includes several filters & P-Tap cable.
The TL-88 is a 75 Watt 5600K light consuming only 10.5W of power. The kit includes filters & P-Tap cable.
The fixtures feature screw-off lamp rings enabling you to replace the 5600K LED ring with a 3200K ring.
  
More Info Here
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Lithium Polymer Rechargeable
Universal Battery Pack
 The MP3400 is a single 56WHr
multi-voltage Li-Po pack with a built in charger measuring just 7 x3.75 x7/8 and weighs 1 lb.
The MP3450 is a single 50WHr multi-voltage battery with two outputs - Main & 5V USB, plus an expansion port. Clip-on the optional MP3450-10 and you’ll have 100WHrs of power available in a
3.32"x 6.85"x .89" size pack.
Both packs are capable of 8 output voltages- 5, 6, 7.5, 9, 12, 14, 16, & 19V. A coiled output cable with 8 different size DC plugs is included as is a power supply for charging, a pouch to carry the adapters, and a nicely done leatherette case with belt loop and window for the 9 LED capacity meter. An output cable for Remote Audio’s BDS box will be available.
Theses packs can be used to power just about anything from audio gear to still & video cameras, laptop computers, PDA’s, Cell & Smart Phones, and more. It is even a good match for the Zylight or other DC powered light.
I did some run time tests using with the MP-3400 running a Sound Device 442 mixer powering a 48V Sanken CS-1 and Ultrasone HFI-700 headphones. With the output set at 12V, it powered the system for 28 hours. When set at 6V (which is within the 442’s operating range), it ran in excess of 34 hours.
Batteries & Chargers
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Analyzer & Charger
 Finally, a comprehensive analyzer & charger for NiMH AA & AAA’s. Eliminate the guesswork and KNOW what condition your batteries are in!
- 29 Charge & Discharge Rates
- Refresh & Analyze
- Battery Forming (break-in) Mode
- Battery Matching
- Shows Working Voltage, Current & Charge Capacity
- Shows Charge and Discharge Capacity
Batteries & Chargers
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iPower Li-Poly 9V Rechargeable
 Rechargeable 9V batteries that have been available until now have been dreadfully underpowered, topping out at only 250mw. iPower’s new Lithium Polymer 9V’s are rated at 520mw and have been proving themselves in many wireless mic and other critical applications.
This 4 slot charger is also very compact.
Batteries & Chargers
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