IC Live can be used anywhere music and intelligible speech are critical: Corporate Events, Live Concerts, Political Rallies, Theatrical Productions, Museums, Lobbies, Galleries, Resorts, Theme Parks, Clubs...

The IC Live array turns the small-format line array on its end. Individual driver control maximizes the acoustical advantages of this design. The result is unsurpassed vertical pattern control – essential for delivering intelligible speech in reverberant spaces. These benefits make IC Live suitable for not only the corporate AV rental market but for the installed sound market as well..

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 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 conventional line array depends on mechanical alignment to control its acoustical energy balloon. You have to build a new multi-enclosure array for every project: first setting the angles between enclosure and then tilting the entire array. The hardware that accomplishes this is complicated, expensive and can be time-consuming to set up.

With digital steering, the process is simple. Decide whether you need one IC Live, or two. Determine whether you need ICL215S subwoofers. For most situations, you’ll then simply pick a preset beam of 20°, 25° or 30° vertical coverage and an aiming angle of ± 0 – 30°. Because you steer the beam digitally, the array is always vertical. This makes the hardware much simpler, easier and faster to set up. Digitally steered arrays can adapt to a wider range of audience sizes and shapes, because individual control of every driver gives you much more precision and a wider range of patterns. Using BeamWare, you can define and aim up to four beams of sound from each IC Live array module. Each can be separately shaped and steered.




Portable, Modular Systems = Return On Inventory

As a system engineered for live event production, IC Live is built to earn its keep. You know as well as we do that rental equipment generates income only when it’s making sound (preferably the kind of sound that makes loyal clients). The more jobs on which a system can excel, the greater the return on the initial investment.

IC Live’s digital steering technology makes it extremely flexible: with up to four beams of acoustic energy under your command, it’s possible to tailor the array’s coverage to almost any audience. Because IC Live uses silicon intelligence rather than brute force to control sound, the physical arrays are always compact and visually discrete. Iconyx arrays can remain vertical while the sound is aimed up, down – even in two directions at once, if you need to cover a balcony and a main floor with one array.

IC Live creates six array configurations for anything from a smal hotel meeting to a live concert for thousands of people, all from just two inventory items. The basic IC Live module can be used alone or combined with one or two ICL215S subwoofers for added low frequency impact. The ICL215S dual 15” bandpass subwoofer supplies the extra bass impact needed for high level music. Two IC Lives arrayed “horn to horn” form a taller, higher output array that can be used alone, or supported by one or two IC Live subwoofers. Any of these array configurations assembles in minutes with interlocking hardware system.

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

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