Housed in a sturdy wooden and metal enclosure, with standard 35mm stand-mounting flange, the MAX is now modular in design: in addition to a microphone input and a pair of unbalanced line inputs, there is also a slot for either a WMS 80 or WMS 40 radio mic receiver in the rear panel. These simply slots into the back panel, creating an instant wireless solution.
The 3-channel mixer on the back provides individual volume controls for each of the inputs, as well as an efficient 2-band system equalizer which allows the user to match the speaker sound to specific microphones, voices, ambience or room acoustic, whilst a built-in limiter, with Autosubsonic filter, prevents clipping and over-driving the speakers, ensuring that performance is always smooth and intelligible. The MAX system is available from Arbiter in the UK.
(Ruth Rossington)