Waves Audio, has announced the first products of its new Waves Commercial Audio line: the Waves CA1000 and CA2000 Commercial Audio DSP Engines, designed to help solve common audio challenges and integrate easily into new or existing A/V installations using Dante audio networking.

Each of the new Waves Audio DSP engines is a single-box software-plus-hardware turnkey solution, featuring over two dozen Waves processors, which come pre-configured with integrator-ready audio processing presets.

The Waves CA1000 and CA2000 Professional DSP Engine units include 19 audio processing presets, based on over two-dozen low-latency Waves plugins, which have been designed to solve challenges with playback quality, speech intelligibility via a wide array of microphones and amplification systems, feedback elimination, voice processing without loss of tonality, and more. These presets can be customized and stored by the integrator and are designed to tame and control common problems like…

• Enhance audio playback quality from any source on any system

• Improve speech intelligibility without loss of tonality

• Automatically suppress mic feedback

• Reduce background noise and improve sound quality for handheld, lavalier, head-worn and table stand mics

• Provide optimised audio feeds for online program streaming

Each of the presets can be customised and locked-in by the installer for individual channels, groups or zones, to deliver optimal results based on the IO, PA and room.  

A/V installers and integrators can configure the CA1000 to process up to 16x16 bidirectional audio channels, and the CA2000 can be configured to process up to 64x64 bidirectional audio channels over the Dante network.  

Example: Meeting Rooms

With a variety of people using microphones during the sessions, in addition to making the audio available to the online audience, it is important to minimise unwanted noise and feedback from the microphones that may be in use around the room.

The Waves CA DSP engine includes a number of mic processing presets that can be configured based on the needs of the facility. For example, each table mic can be routed to the Speech Mics w-Dugan preset in order to optimise each mic for use with panel speakers. This preset also features patented Dugan processing to automatically control the gains of multiple mics in real-time to maintain a consistent output level across all mic channels and reduce feedback and cross-filtering effects from adjacent microphones.

Audience Q&A mics can be routed to the Q&A Mic preset to address common challenges with “open mics” made available for use on the auditorium floor such as excessive low-end thumps & pops as well as feedback suppression.

If online streaming of the meeting is required, the audio meeting subgroup can be routed to the Waves CA engine for professional quality processing that includes built-in noise suppression and signal levelling to enhance and optimize the audio stream for remote, online listening.

Example: Commercial Restaurant/Bar

Restaurants and bars install AV systems for a variety of purposes. A typical installation will set up a primary zone that provides ambient background music for table guests, with additional zones serving separate areas such as bars, private rooms and kitchen/prep halls.

In addition to the consistent playback levels, the Waves CA Music Ducking Control preset provides for an announcement mic channel to be added that automatically overrides and compresses the background music if needed by the business (such as routine or emergency announcements).

CA1000/CA2000 Features

• Studio-grade audio processing quality for A/V installation projects

• Integrate quickly with your choice of vendor audio controllers, mics and amplifiers/speakers using Dante

• 19 professionally pre-configured and integrator-ready A/V presets

• Improves speech intelligibility without loss of tonality for many common microphones

• Automatically suppresses mic feedback

• Reduces background noise and improves sound quality for handheld, lavalier, head-worn and table stand microphones

• Enhances and normalizes A/V playback sources 

• Delivers broadcast-quality audio processing for online streaming

• Dante network connectivity: 1Gb Ethernet port (RJ45)

• Integrator configuration: USB and HDMI/DisplayPort

• Operating environment: Windows 10 and Dante Virtual Soundcard (DVS) included

• One-year warranty 

Price And Availability

• CA1000 - $2899 Coming Soon

• CA2000 - $3449 Coming Soon