AirCleaner-2

Setup and configuration of AirCleaner-2 is super simple — whether performed from the chassis front panel LCD display, or from the included remote DashBoard Config panel specifically designed for use with AirCleaner-2.

A snapshot of all user-specific setup parameters can be saved in up to three non-volatile memories—with swift and easy recall when needed—to instantly match the configuration requirements for the live production of the day.

AirCleaner-2 can conceal video independently from audio—or can conceal both at the same time. It’s just a simple matter of pressing one concealment button by itself; or both concealment buttons at the same time on the AirCleaner Control Panel.

Video can be concealed with either a very effective ‘defocus’ process; or with an immediate ‘cut to safe view’ pre-fed into the dedicated aux video input with an alternate image before on-air operation begins.

Audio can also be concealed with a similar, immediate soft-cut to a ‘sound effect’ or ‘beep tone’ pre-fed into a dedicated aux audio input into AirCleaner-2; or with a simple ‘mute’. Alternatively, a more subtle (and yet extremely effective) audio concealment can be deployed: Audio Jumble—which scrambles the spoken word in such a manner so it sounds like the same person speaking—but in a ‘foreign language’ absolutely nobody in your audience is able to understand!

The AirCleaner-2 AutoClean feature automatically compensates for operator’s ‘reaction time’ to observed stimuli—helping to better ensure unwanted content is concealed in its entirety from every live program.

AutoClean is automatically enabled when AirCleaner-2 is pre-programmed with up to four individual ‘reaction time’ parameters: two for each operator—one each for the video and audio concealment triggers. During live operations, AutoClean will then automatically “back-time” the trigger point of each concealment operation—starting the concealment just before the unwanted content would have appeared in the live program!

Our next-generation AirCleaner-2 is built upon a robust, modern hardware platform—featuring the very latest solid-state hardware technology and employing contemporary software coding techniques. Long story short? AirCleaner-2 is designed to operate with rock-solid performance 24/7.

But nothing in our world is perfect. Built-in fail-safe bypass circuitry will automatically and effectively remove AirCleaner-2 from the program signal pathway, in the highly unlikely event of a catastrophic failure inside the AirCleaner-2 chassis itself.

AirCleaner-2 also features dual redundant hot-swap power supply modules to protect against both an external ‘circuit-breaker trip’ and from a failure with one of the two internal power supply modules that energize AirCleaner.

AirCleaner Control Panel operations couldn’t possibly be any easier: simply ‘press and hold down’ the appropriate concealment button whenever something goes wrong in the live program—and release the button when things go ‘good’ again.

At the delayed program output, that unwanted mishap is cleanly and effectively concealed.

The AutoClean ‘reaction time compensation’ feature in AirCleaner-2 will automatically ‘back-time’ every concealment button press, to start the concealment process just before the mishap happened in the live program.

For those extremely ‘high-profile’ events, it’s easy to add an extra layer of protection to your live broadcast with AirCleaner-2. How? Simply plug in a second AirCleaner Control Panel. That’s it!

While two AirCleaner control panels are connected, it’s then a simple matter of ‘dividing the delay time in two’ between the two operators. AirCleaner-2 features a dedicated output just for the second operator, which monitors the audio/video output from the ‘first segment’ of the divided delay time.

During live operations, if the first operator fails to notice ‘any part’ or even ‘all’ of a blunder at the program input, the second operator can then completely conceal that missed, undesirable content!