LIVE EVENTS

Communication between crew members is essential in live shows. Wired production intercoms have existed since the days of ill-fitting Western Electric telephone operator headsets. Handy talkie radios allowed for freedom of movement, but were difficult to integrate with existing wired intercoms.

Pliant Technologies has a wide range of professional wireless intercoms. Built on the CrewCom family platform, with the same proven RF technology, the new CrewCom CB2 has exceptional operating range and audio quality.

Live event production is extremely challenging under the best of circumstances. Whether it’s sports, concerts or theater, live production only gives you one chance to get it right. A lot goes into making a successful live production, like staging, sound, lighting, cameras, video, special effects, costume, makeup and more. Communication systems play a critical role across all production disciplines in the execution of a successful live event, starting hours or days before the show and going right up to the critical moments during the performance.

Choosing the right wireless intercom technology is a key factor in live event production today.  It’s also a significant investment. Pliant Technologies is a worldwide leader in critical communication solutions and has more than 30 years of experience in delivering intercom solutions in more than 40 countries to industries such as broadcast, live-sound, theater, theme park, event management, maritime, as well as many other diverse applications. Pliant Technologies is customer-centric and focused on product development in areas that will create new and exciting technologies that can be leveraged across multiple markets. Technologies, like CrewCom, are making it possible for entertainment and production professionals to conquer the ever-increasing challenges in today’s production environments.

 

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CrewCom wireless products are available in global-friendly 2.4GHz and also 900MHz ISM bands (900MHz is limited to where this band is legal). One major benefit of the CrewCom system is that these frequency ranges operate outside the spectrum used for traditional UHF microphones and IFB wireless devices.  Moving intercom out of the crowded UHF band frees additional wireless spectrum for more UHF devices. These two frequencies may be used simultaneously on the same CrewCom system, resulting in the ability to easily allow communications and achieve dependable RF coverage where needed, while employing a straight forward, simple and consistent user interface throughout the system. Up to 200 total wireless users are supported and each wireless user can roam seamlessly from one location to another. Cable runs using standard CAT-5e or fiber optic of up to 6.2 miles (10 km) can be made supporting extremely large physical footprints. This is a critical element in finding enough spectrum to support large numbers of wireless talent and support expanded crew requirements in larger events.

The system’s distributed, decentralized architecture enables multiple unique conversations (conferences) that are available to any wireless user. These conferences can be point-to-point conversations or include many users (partylines). This configuration effectively combines the best of digital matrix and partyline intercom systems while maintaining a powerful, yet familiar and intuitive user interface at the radio packs that lends itself to short learning curves and error-free operation. CrewCom is equally well suited for small, wireless-only applications and large, multi-coverage-area configurations.