Yamaha integrates its CL and QL mixers with Shure ULX-D digital wireless systems

Both companies unite their technologies so that users improve the operation of their professional audio equipment, since they will be able to control and monitor the dual and quad wireless receivers of the microphone company from these well-known consoles..

Yamaha Pro Audio y Shure Incorporated have announced that users of the former's CL and QL series mixers will be able to control and monitor ULX-D digital wireless systems. (dual digital wireless receivers with Dante ULXD4D and quad ULXD4Q). With this integration, audio professionals have intuitive tools to tackle sound reinforcement applications of any size.

Control parameters that will now be accessible will include battery monitoring, RF coverage intensity, antenna status, audio levels and frequencies and full gain control, muting and channel naming.

This is what Ken Hiraola has pointed out, Yamaha Pro Audio business unit director: “through ongoing collaboration with Shure, our CL and QL series consoles and their ULX-D digital wireless systems now integrate seamlessly, thus contributing to substantial improvements in operating comfort and efficiency. Both Shure and Yamaha will continue to innovate in their respective sectors”.

The collaboration between both companies began in June 2013, when the functionality to discover ULX-D receivers was introduced in the CL series V1.6 update. More recently, in April 2015, TF series consoles launched with QuickPro Presets optimized for various microphones and instruments, including presets for Shure microphones, whose products it distributes Earpro in the Iberian market and in Andorra.

This new announcement marks the third phase of this collaboration between Shure and Yamaha, with control and monitoring of ULXD4D and ULXD4Q receivers directly from the touch panels of CL and QL series consoles, as of the release of firmware update V4.0, scheduled for the end of this month of April.

For Nick Wood, category director of wireless systems en Shure, “This integration means ULX-D users can optimize microphone gain settings from the mixer and safely monitor the status of wireless systems.”, within the context of the table's own interface. “It is a very important step in the progress of wireless control and in the ongoing collaboration between Shure and Yamaha.”.