MLA Mini

Every so often a new technology emerges that overtakes previous technologies — and in time replaces them. Just as line array took over from point-source clusters over 20 years ago, Martin Audio’s revolutionary award-winning Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array [MLA] technology is reinventing the way loudspeaker arrays are configured and controlled — combining unsurpassed audience coverage and consistency with superior fidelity.

The ultra-compact MLA Mini brings this revolutionary technology to an exceptionally wide range of portable sound and showcase events, as well as fixed installations ranging from theatres and ballrooms to Houses of Worship and concert halls.

With multiple awards for innovation, MLA Mini’s small footprint and light weight makes it the system of choice for small-medium scale venues seeking the ultimate in fidelity, consistency and control.

Some describe it as magic, but in its simplest terms a 16-enclosure MLA Mini array has 32 individual acoustic elements [cells], each with its own amplifier and DSP, which can be optimised by software to deliver the sound across the audience to meet the sonic goals required for any space.

MLA technology is the only technology on the market to allow multiple sonic goals to be prioritised and optimised accordingly. For example, not only can MLA Mini generate an even sound field over the audience, it can contain it as well — significantly reducing the influence of the room.

Hard Avoid® areas ─ such as behind and below the array, ceilings, balcony edges and beyond the venue perimeter ─ can also be programmed in. Vertical coverage can even be fine-tuned electronically in-situ to cope with changing environmental conditions and last-minute changes in rigging height, without having to re-rig.

With incredibly easy-to-use and highly accurate predictive software [DISPLAY] doing all the grunt work with the system, the engineer retains full artistic control and can enjoy mixing the show in the full knowledge that the sound created at the mix position will be heard everywhere throughout the audience.

Such is the confidence that MLA Mini can bring, that significantly less time is spent setting up the system and less time is spent walking the room to verify results.

MLA Mini’s ultimate accolade is its audio perfection. Pristine fidelity, vocal clarity, sonic impact and high output capability brings the sound engineer and the audience together in a powerful, involving experience.

In short, MLA Mini is a sound engineer’s delight. It is incredibly clean and transparent and responsive to the smallest EQ changes. With innovative acoustic design and no large-format compression drivers to harden the sound, it presents the engineer with a neutral canvas whatever the artist or music genre.

From a club, ballroom, auditorium or arena to a convention centre, theatre or House of Worship, every installation venue presents its own specific acoustic challenges that traditional line array systems fail to adequately tackle.

Whether it’s sound leakage behind and below the array, or hard ceilings, balcony edges and rear walls that cause ‘slapback’ and high reverberation times — overcoming the acoustic challenges to ensure that every member of the audience enjoys intelligible speech and perfect music reproduction can be a thankless task. And if the audience’s audio experience is below par, then that venue — be it a church or convention centre — simply won’t ever maximise its potential.

MLA Mini is fully-controllable, putting sound just where it is wanted and reducing it elsewhere — maximising the audience experience and minimising the negative acoustic impact of the room itself.