Digital beam steering puts IC Live output where it belongs: on the audience, not walls or ceilings.

Computer software lets you define the opening angles for as many as four sonic beams from each IC Live array module (up to 8 beams when stacked) and aim them up or down. Meanwhile, the slim enclosure stays vertical and inconspicuous.

Two ICL-FR modules and an ICL-LM-FR module can be stacked for even tighter control and higher output.

All Iconyx ICL-FR arrays are equipped with RHAON, the Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network.

RHAON offers multi-channel digital audio distribution, user controlled DSP, user selectable preset configurations and comprehensive remote system management and control - all using standard Ethernet hardware and cabling.

All sound systems must control the energy they produce in order to work properly. "Up close and personal" communication happens when sound arriving directly from
the loudspeaker is much louder than sound that's reflected off the walls, windows, floor and ceiling.

Digital Steering = 360° Control

Back in 1957, Harry F. Olson showed that linear arrays can control sound – and the frequencies they can control are limited by the height of the array (on the low end) and the spacing between drivers (on the high end). IC Live has the same drivers you’ll find in typical “mini” line arrays. A single IC Live is about twice as tall, so it controls an octave lower. With all the drivers in one enclosure, not three, they're as close together as possible, so digitally steered IC Live arrays can control higher and lower frequencies more effectively.

Ordinary line arrays can shape vertical dispersion, but they produce conventional “balloon” polar patterns. Sidewall reflections in particular are not affected by curving or tilting a conventional line array. IC Live line arrays use digital steering, which produces an “umbrella” polar: the steering works in all directions, not just along the main lobe’s axis. The amount of energy bouncing off the sidewalls is greatly reduced, and it’s aimed downwards, so reflections aren’t aimed directly at the audience. The end result is more direct sound and less reflected energy: the classic recipe for superior intelligibility.

The software algorithms that digitally shape and steer the output of an IC Live are complex, but the user interface is intuitively simple. Our BeamWare Windows application lets you model the audience area, then drag and drop beams until coverage is optimized.

BeamWare then calculates a set of FIR (Finite Infinite Response) filters that control the array. Before loading the arrays onto the truck, simply download the full set of FIR filters from your computer to the IC Live modules over Ethernet. At the venue, the vertical array sets up quickly and easily.

With optimized coverage, everyone from the front rows to the rear of the audience enjoys consistently articulate and musical sound at comfortable listening levels.





Multiple Presets, Easy Selection (RHAON Empowered Models)

The fast pace of live event production doesn’t always permit a computer based design process using BeamWare. With IC L-FR, you can make sound for many typical applications in minutes, without ever touching a computer.

Nine presets (four factory and five custom) can be stored in memory, ready for selection from the rear panel. Simply scroll through them using the Up/Down buttons and indicator LEDs on the rear panel to find the right one for any given room and audience, and you’re ready to go.