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Founded in 1973 by Guido Noselli, Outline is an industry leading manufacturer of premier sound reinforcement systems. Outline develops, engineers and manufactures large, medium, and small format loudspeakers as well as innovative FPGA-based and related technologies for the concert sound and pro audio markets.
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There are over 4200+ Outline installations worldwide. We have reliable high quality products that are designed to deliver great sound in any acoustical environment.
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Our production partners throughout the world provide the highest level of professional sound for stadiums, arenas, clubs, corporate events and more for all sizes of audiences and venues.
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Outline NEWTON is a full-featured, FPGA-based multi-source processor that takes technology convergence for audio-visual systems to the next level. Discover more here!
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SuperFly takes off in Albania
SuperFly takes off in Albania Headquartered in Tirana, ASLV (Albanian Sound, Lighting and Video) has operated nationwide since 2013 and, with its team of highly qualified staff, provides sound, lighting, video, staging and structures, as well as creative technical solutions for concerts, festivals, theatre and opera productions, key corporate events, expos and more throughout the country. Specialist services also include consultation and design. Recently appointed as exclusive Outline distributor for Albania, following its corporate policy of ensuring its clients equipment that is technically the best for perfectly meeting their requirements, ASLV has also taken delivery of an Outline Superfly Silver audio package, one of the three turnkey set-ups conceived in recent months by the Italian audio manufacturer. Superfly loudspeaker systems have a true three-way (HF-MF-LF) design, but the dual high-efficiency 10” transducers in the LF section are powered individually, significantly enhancing low-frequency performance. The midrange and HF components (dual 8” drivers and a single 3” compression driver) are the same as Outline’s GTO series, resulting in remarkable performance figures. Outline’s product manager and business developer Fernando Rey Méndez explains, “The three configurations ensure the best ratio between loudspeaker and amplifier quantity, thus becoming excellent investments with a fast economic return. […]
Next era at Evangelical Holiness Church calls for new PA
Next era at Evangelical Holiness Church calls for new PA SEOUL – With 1,500 seats for its 15,000 members, Jeonju-Paul Church is the largest Evangelical Holiness Church in South Korea. Coinciding with the inauguration of new Pastor Hyun-mo Shin, the church decided to upgrade the main loudspeaker system in the main auditorium. Although the sermons and religious services demand high level intelligibility for spoken word, amplification of the large choir and accompanying orchestra is also required. Outline’s Seoul-based distributor Hebsiba Multimedia was commissioned to deploy a L-C-R system setup. Translating from a Greek term meaning “form”, “essence” or “type”, Eidos fittingly made its inauguration to mark this new chapter at the church. As such, the left and right hangs each comprise of 12 Outline Eidos 265 line-array elements together with a FlySub 15 enclosure. A further four Eidos 265 cabinets fulfil even coverage from the centre array. Comprising two 6.5-inch mid/low-frequency transducers and a high-frequency compression driver with a 2.5-inch diaphragm loaded onto a 100° (horizontal dispersion) waveguide, the 21 kg weight of the Eidos makes it a powerful cabinet for its class. Positioned below the left and right hand side of the stage, a further pair of Outline LAB 15 subwoofers […]
Britannia Row buys Outline Newton FPGA Processor
In the picture above: Outline Newton at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Seville Britannia Row buys Outline Newton FPGA Processor Following a process of evaluation and product demonstrations by CUK’s James Lawford and Outline’s product specialist Fernando Rey Mendez, London-based Britannia Row Productions have joined the long list of leading audio providers investing in the Italian company’s extraordinary Newton processors. BRP’s Technical Head Keith Cunningham said, “Following several demos of the Newton we were very impressed with the GUI, fast workflow and ease of use. The Newton is the all-in-one solution to many technical problems.” “The form factor is the real selling point, it’s a constant battle for all manufacturers to try and shrink the footprint while retaining functionality – Outline have managed to find a perfect match between both. Fernando at Outline and James at CUK have been very receptive to our feedback and feature requests, which really inspires confidence in both companies.” “We see the Newton being used for all future projects that require simple and effective system management – any tool that speeds up workflow and simplifies complex clocking arrangements is a winner!” BRP’s Newtons went straight into action on the Brit Awards at London’s 02 Arena and the MTV Europe Music Awards in Seville. Their Technical Projects […]
Webinars on Outline Newton get under way
Outline announces the launch of a series of free webinars in English focussed on some of its most representative (patented or patent pending) technology, in the context of sound reinforcement and the signal processing world. The first webinar, scheduled for 20th April at 9 am, regards Newton, the FPGA processor – technology in which Outline has invested since 2010 – presented three years ago and chosen by some of the world’s top rental companies, PA techs and post-production studios, as well as for broadcast applications. APPOINTMENTS ON ZOOM • Newton Hardware Overview – 20th April at 9 am – Register • Dashboard Overview – 22nd April at 9 am – Register • and many more (complete list) WHAT YOU’LL LEARN – Close-up knowledge of Newton’s prerogatives and the features that distinguish it from other technology – How to organize a complete workflow using one or more Newtons – The benefits of WFIR filters, synonymous with precision and top-grade musicality. THE WEBINAR’S TARGETS System Engineers, PA Techs, FOH Engineers and whoever (even if not a technician) wants to obtain close-up knowledge of the FPGA processor manufactured entirely in Italy. THE TRAINERS The webinars will be hosted by Outline’s Fernando Rey Méndez […]
Al via i webinar con Outline Newton
Outline annuncia l’avvio di un ciclo di webinar gratuiti in lingua inglese incentrati su alcune delle sue tecnologie più rappresentative – brevettate o in corso di brevettazione – nell’ambito del sound reinforcement e nel dominio del processing di segnale. Il primo webinar, in programma il 20 aprile alle ore 9, verte su Newton, il processore FPGA – tecnologia su cui Outline investe dal 2010 – presentato tre anni fa e scelto da alcune tra le più blasonate rental company e PA tech al mondo, studi di post-produzione ed applicazioni broadcast. GLI APPUNTAMENTI SU ZOOM • Newton Hardware Overview – 20 aprile alle ore 9 – Registrati • Dashboard Overview – 22 aprile alle ore 9 – Registrati • e molti altri (programma completo) COSA IMPARERAI • A conoscere più da vicino le prerogative di Newton, e gli elementi differenzianti rispetto ad altre tecnologie • A organizzare un flusso di lavoro completo sfruttando uno o più Newton • A conoscere i benefici dei filtri WFIR, sinonimo di precisione e musicalità superiori. A CHI È RIVOLTO IL WEBINAR System Engineers, PA Tech, FOH Engineers e chiunque, anche i non tecnici, sia curioso di conoscere più da vicino il processore FPGA interamente Made […]
Outline @ ‘Business Unusual’ by Pro AVL Asia Magazine
Newton product specialist Fernando Rey Méndez promotes the innovative FPGA platform to Outline‘s global customers. The advent of Covid-19 has restricted him to direct operations from his home in northern Italy near Outline‘s base in Brescia. https://www.proavl-asia.com/details/65021-business-unusual-fernando-rey-mendez Share on Facebook:
Outline’s Newton Processors At The Heart Of Tool’s Fear Inoculum World Tour
Multiple Grammy Award-winning, genre-defying LA band Tool are in the midst of a world tour following the 2019 release of their latest album Fear Inoculum, their first recording since 10,000 Days some thirteen years previously. Tool’s dense, multi-layered and polyrhythmic sound is mixed at FOH by Alan ‘Nobby’ Hopkinson while the very complex audio system (an all-d&b audiotechnik rig provided by Eighth Day Sound) is managed by System Technician Liam Halpin. No stranger to arena-sized, multi-zone PA systems and having worked with the band since 2015, Halpin was also an early adopter of Outline’s extraordinary Newton FPGA-based processor (patent pending). He comments, ‘As far back as 2008 I actually wrote and submitted a spec for a device like Newton to a few of the major signal processing manufacturers – at the time it was a digital version of the Midas XL88 which was the industry standard unit for managing multiple analogue consoles in festival-type situations. I could see the coming need for something with all its matrixing capabilities and great sound but with an updated feature set to accommodate digital consoles – sadly none of the manufacturers were as excited about it as I was!’ ‘Fast forward to 2016, when […]
STADIA sets the pace in Philippine Olympic-grade athletics stadium
The New Clark City Athletics Stadium is an Olympic Grade Class 1 multi-purpose stadium located at New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac, in the Philippines. High-profile events hosted recently by the 20,000-capacity venue have included the athletic events and closing ceremony of the 30th Southeast Asian Games and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 ASEAN Para Games. The Athletics Stadium’s spectacular architecture with its hinged roof, which takes inspiration from the crater of the country’s Mount Pinatubo volcano, now hosts an impressive new Outline STADIA PA system composed of 30 loudspeaker enclosures powered by 8 Outline GTA Otto (Dante) power amps, installed by Amigo Entertainment Technologies, Inc., Outline’s distributor for the Philippines. Amigo also installed an Outline STADIA PA in the leading-edge New Clark City Sports Hub’s IAAF-certified Class 1 Aquatics Center, designed by world-renowned Philippine architects Budji + Royal and adjacent to the Athletics Stadium. Amigo has been delivering results since it was established in 1979, under the name First Audio Resources & Management Corporation, providing audio and visual technology for commercial and industrial applications. To this day, the company continues to lead the field with innovative ventures, including ongoing major projects such as the SM Group […]
COVID-19 TEMPORARY CLOSURE
Chiusi – solo momentaneamente! Cari amici di Outline, ce l’abbiamo messa tutta. Abbiamo adottato ogni precauzione necessaria per evitare qualsiasi possibilità di contagio e possiamo dire che ce l’abbiamo fatta, ma… Outline resterà chiusa fino al 3 aprile, per rispettare le recenti normative del Governo Italiano stabilite per il Covid-19. Ricorda che noi ci siamo! Restiamo in contatto attraverso i nostri profili social, e-mail e newsletter. Puoi scriverci a info@outline.it per avere dei consigli utili sui tuoi progetti o per qualsiasi altra richiesta, tecnica e commerciale. Torneremo presto, più forti di prima! JOIN US AND SHARE YOUR PASSION! __________ COVID-19 TEMPORARY CLOSURE Dear Outline friends around the world, we kindly inform you that due to the new Italian Government provision, our Company must suspend all the production activities till April the 3rd 2020. As soon as we will be allowed to restart our production processes, we will put all our passion and effort to recover the lost time and to limit the inconvenience caused. In the meantime both our commercial structure and the administrative structure remain active and available via e-mail. info@outline.it JOIN US AND SHARE YOUR PASSION!
Outline loudspeaker enclosures are Phase Compliant!
Outline loudspeaker enclosures are Phase Compliant! What does this mean? It means that from the largest GTO system down to the small VEGAS 24, all Outline products feature the same phase curve slope. As well as being a characteristic feature of the brand, this also makes life easier for those who are not experts in measurements and aligning different sound sources. In fact, positioning the enclosures with the front grilles one above the other, the enclosures will be have perfectly time-alignment. What are the benefits? • greater system uniformity • comb filtering is reduced to a minimum • maximum possible sum of the two sound sources. The same also holds for subwoofers that are compatible and, above all, are a perfect match for any satellite in the Outline range. To align two enclosures, it is sufficient to measure the difference in signal path between the subwoofer and the satellite to understand the delay that must be added to obtain the perfect audio signal sum, even if you do not have sophisticated measurement systems. Below you will see three illustrations with three measurements taken with Outline’s V10 KIT. The two phase curves are perfectly aligned (if the enclosures’ grilles are too) […]
What professional audio people are saying
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“I love to use Newton because it is no trouble, we can now have the festival matrix desks plus the festival desk with videos, DI and MCs without problems, we don’t need to worry about clocking issues. Also, 16 outs with tons of processing power is amazing and last but not the least the Smaart integration is amazing. Newton is the way to go now in the digital world, in a single rack space unit we can do a lot. We use our Newtons as system management, summing desks on festivals and output control for the system, linked via Dante to feed delay towers. Also, Newtons solve the clock sync issue when combining with different digital audio sources – that’s the best thing in the world! Also the EQs are so precise and smooth with their phase response.”
“Rat Sound has been searching for several years for a solution to drive our festival sound systems and Outline has met the challenge with an elegant solution. With the Newton we can combine consoles and drive outputs in a multitude of popular formats, and we appreciate all the various clocking options. Our System Engineers instantly appreciated the intuitive, easy to use software control. Rat Sound has immediately begun deploying Newton’s on a multitude of festivals, and we plan on utilizing them on all our festival events in 2019 and beyond.”
“The Newton is a powerful unit which answers a long term need for festivals and touring. One unit can replace several of the ‘industry standard’ units which are a hassle to interlink. No other unit has the ease of use and flexibility in clocking, I/O and routing. I look forward to using them on more of my projects, and as the software develops, I’m sure they will only get better!”
“Outline has done an outstanding job of utilizing the Smaart API to integrate Smaart measurement data within the latest release of their Dashboard control software. This integration really highlights Outline’s commitment to providing their customers with powerful, forward-thinking professional audio tools and we are thrilled to see Newton/Dashboard added to the ever-growing list of Smaart API enabled products.”
“Newton is an extremely capable device. A single 1RU unit replaces a multitude of current industry standard devices. The clocking flexibility, simplistic routing, and plentiful IO makes Newton a dream to use. Each output has gain, delay, polarity, layers of EQ, and every filter type including both types of all pass filters! The possible uses for the device are incredible. Not only can the Newton make a whole rack of gear disappear, but sonically it is very transparent. When applying a filter, you hear the filter, nothing else. I find achieving the desired result not only easier, but also improves the overall sonic performance of the entire system.”
“We were looking for something versatile and simple to use, but no other solution had that level of versatility. Nothing has come close to what the Newton unit can do.”
“The GTO was already a winner on paper, due to the box containing superior components: four 3″ (HF), four 8″ (MF), and two 15″ (LF) all in a single enclosure. However it was only when I worked with the system for the first time in front of a 700,000-strong audience that I realized that the GTO was not only far superior on paper, but also compared with anything else I had ever worked with.”
“Right now we are using the Newton as our overall system management hub, providing all of our system EQ and control. On our own headline shows we also run the opening acts into it. It is nice not having to worry about clock synchronisation or digital noise with the Newton, and to have the flexibility to send or receive any format we need – this has been of great help through the day to day festival shows we have been doing this summer. The Newton is great – it’s been a real workhorse, and it is one unit in the rack I don’t have to worry about!”
“The internal word clock management allows the user to remain synchronous with whichever console is live, should they wish, the 18×16 matrix is going to be incredibly useful and the fact that all this is built in a 1RU space just makes it even better.”
“What can I say… Working with Outline Systems is like bringing back the correct acoustic rules… but with really high technology on board fully in control without tricks… The best moment is always when we turn on the full rig… For me it’s like sitting on my Harley on a non-stop ride from the East Coast to the West Coast… Pure pleasure… Chapeau, Monsieur Noselli!… So what can I say… Nothing – just listen… louder!…”
“NEWTON easily met and exceeded all our expectations. But beyond the connectivity and convenience I was also delighted to discover just what a great-sounding unit this is. I also particularly enjoyed using the NEWTON’s zero-latency WFIR (Warped Finite Impulse Response) EQ filters…”
“Since I used a Newton for the first time in May 2018 as a console matrix, it’s been my preferred method of getting multiple consoles into the PA system at any one time. This year at TRNSMT we stepped it up a notch and used a pair of Newtons in tandem to do all of my console matrixing and system processing. Taking LRSF from up to 4 consoles at any one point in AES3 format with an Analogue backup, and giving me all my PA sends plus record and programme matrix’s, the Newtons worked seamlessly throughout the weekend. With the latest software update including SMAART integration and the tablet mode, what was already a fantastic bit of kit, is only going to get better.”
“There is some monstrous power contained in one rack unit: easy to use, fast to configure for any need, no more problems with SRC or clock sync … I faced a summer tour where, for every PA I happened to work with, I had a powerful and efficient tool for my mixes. Finally a device that has the combination of pristine quality and extreme flexibility. Hope to use it as soon as possible for a festival. Italian pride. ROCK!”
“Being the answer for demanding install and touring applications where top quality matrixing and processing is required, we are very happy that we can now offer Outline Newton to our clients in the Benelux. Audio quality and technical specs are on the highest level which, combined with the extensive 18×16 matrix, has resulted in high profile users all over the world”
“With over 700 shows under my belt mixing Justin Moore, I’ve never come across another system that has the sonic accuracy and headroom of Outline’s GTO C-12.”
“Outline has done a wonderful job making GTO C-12 sound fabulous right from the start – rich, potent, and with the silky smooth highs that Outline is known for. In a theatre setting, it was the most hi-fi experience, much like sitting at home listening to my reference system.”
“Managing Director Keith Davis, Senior Project Manager Martin Connolly, Project Manager Robin Conway and I sat in the back row of the upper bowl and the clarity and sonic performance of the [GTO C-12] system blew us away…the highs, mids and lows were all incredible. There was not even a hint of needing delay hangs for the O2 Arena.”
“…just done our sound check for an open air show, the [Superfly] rig breezed it, it’s absolutely fantastic, full, clear, powerful, and travels a great distance; I have been working on my processing and now have the mix very smooth, it’s a great system. The show was fantastic, I can’t believe how solid the system is outside. It’s the best I have used. It’s perfect!” | Full interview (https://vimeo.com/293948997)
“I try to mix the show the way I would want to hear it, nice and punchy with lots of vocals so the crowd can sing along. The GTO C-12 has easily accomplished that task. The system sounds even across the whole spectrum and didn’t seem to shift its tonal balance if it was driven lightly or given its head. Francis Rossi in particular is very in touch with the audience and they hang on his every quip, so having his vocal mic open and crystal clear is paramount. I go for big drums sounds, fat guitars, a good layer of BV’s and make sure all the guitar solos are present.”
“The sound produced by the guys on stage is rich, full and symphonic, and it is essential that I have a PA that capable of delivering this to all corners of the auditorium. The reach of this system is phenomenal – the people at the back of the balconies have been enjoying a far more full frequency spectrum than previously, particularly in the top end. The GTO C-12 system to me is voiced very forward, which makes it very suitable for arena-sized and smaller outdoor shows and this characteristic really helps it push the mix to all corners of the venue.”
“It was very risky and I’d never have accepted the challenge without the Outline systems, because I know them inside out!” [ref. World Youth Day in Krakow with 2.5 Million Pilgrims]
”The Outline system works great, and the settings available have enabled me to easily achieve a smooth and natural response across the entire frequency range.”
“GTO is the closest thing I found in live sound to the definition of studio monitoring. It’s so detailed that you need to treat it with respect. In some ways you have to rethink your mix and be careful not to overlook anything that will show up if it’s not handled carefully.”
“There are very few powerful PA’s on the market that also sound even, tight and clean. GTO is one of them. Its quality is outstanding and like every other Outline product is versatile and easy to manage. The excellent 3D prediction software OpenArray helps to create a perfect sound design too. The R&D team does incredible job. I started using Outline since the Butterfly days and it is always a pleasure to mix using their systems.”
“As a team we bring to professional audio the same legendary Italian passion and creativity that lead the world in many other fields. We listen to our customers so that we can create the true audience experience.“