Latin America. Shure announced the Axient Digital PSM, its first digital wireless in-ear monitoring solution that exceeds the needs of leading touring and large-scale production artists.
Axient Digital PSM has been meticulously designed and developed to meet the rigorous demands of audio professionals and rental companies, ensuring high RF performance and spectral efficiency that adapts to the rapidly evolving wireless landscape.
This new digital in-ear monitoring system is the first product line enabled for Shure's Wireless Multichannel Audio System (WMAS), enabling audio professionals to adapt to a wide variety of environments. With its state-of-the-art design, Axient Digital PSM represents a long-term investment for tours, event spaces, and other applications, elevating flexibility and scalability to unprecedented levels.
Superior RF Performance and Audio Quality
Axient Digital PSM allows engineers to say "yes" to more complex and creative productions because they will have access to more in-ear monitoring channels. With state-of-the-art digital technology and a sophisticated headphone amplifier design, artists will enjoy the highest audio quality, without compromising signal reliability and a latency of less than 2.9ms for a more immersive experience.
Powered by Shure WMAS, Axient Digital PSM features a multi-channel broadband mode that significantly increases spectral efficiency. With multi-channel broadband mode, users can improve RF performance or the scalability of the number of channels.
Developed by Shure, Spatial Diversity employs two broadcast diversity antennas, each sending an identical signal on the same frequency, providing RF engineers with a new, and simpler, option to support separate zones and optimize coverage for stadiums, event venues, and broadcast studios. When spatially diverse transmitters interact with bodypack receivers with True Digital Diversity, Axient Digital PSM combines four signal paths per channel to provide advanced protection against multipath interference and RF noise.
Axient Digital's PSM transmitters support both analog and digital input formats, including AES3, Dante, and AES67, allowing monitor engineers to easily connect to modern consoles. Standard AES256 encryption is available for secure transmission.
Flexibility and Scalability
Axient Digital PSM features two rack-space transmitter options: ADTQ Quad Transmitter and ADTD Dual Transmitter. Both offer four flexible and powerful transmission modes.
Multi-channel broadband (available regionally according to WMAS regulations), supporting up to 28 channels per 6 MHz in the US and 40 channels per 8 MHz in Europe. This exceeds the FCC's requirement that WMAS have a mode of operation in which it can operate with at least three channels of audio per MHz.
Narrowband Provides access to more RF output power per channel and maintains spectral efficiency at 17 channels per 6 MHz.
Analog FM Enables high-quality audio with ultra-low latency.
Standard Axient Digital (Point-to-Point Mode) will allow users to send long-distance audio to any Axient Digital microphone receiver. It will be available via a post-launch firmware update.
With Axient Digital PSM, engineers and rental companies can address their needs today and be prepared for the future.
Management and Control
Axient Digital PSM is supported by the Shure Ecosystem of the Wireless ® Workbench and ShowLink®. For the first time, monitor engineers can enjoy comprehensive remote management of each bodypack receiver on stage, with visibility into key parameters and the ability to make adjustments if needed.
With ShowLink, real-time control allows for continuous monitoring of all bodypack receivers, including channel quality, battery life, volume position, earbud connection status, and more. Remote management helps audio professionals know when it's time to change batteries, when to intervene if channel quality is compromised, resolve volume control issues for the artist, and troubleshoot faster.
With Wireless Workbench and the AD600 Spectrum Manager, engineers can address technical issues, monitor RF spectrum, and maintain backup frequencies, ensuring smooth performance from start to finish.
The Axient Digital PSM wireless in-ear monitoring system will be available in 2025.
