# Konos > Konos is a professional shotgun-microphone and field-recorder brand by Dotterel > Technologies (New Zealand). Konos builds networked, multi-channel microphone arrays > for film, broadcast, live production, and live sports. The headliner product is the > Konos Digital, a single forward-facing mic with continuously adjustable beam width, > a steerable beam, a true stereo mode, and five channels of audio-over-IP (or 80 > raw element channels). Its parent, Dotterel Technologies, provides > acoustic solutions across professional audio, broadcast, government, and drones. This file is a map of the site for LLMs and AI answer engines. Facts here are plain-text and quotable. (Convention: https://llmstxt.org) ## Company - Brand: **Konos** - a brand of **Dotterel Technologies**, New Zealand. - Parent company: **Dotterel Technologies** - acoustic solutions across professional audio, broadcast, government, and drones (uncrewed aerial systems). - Markets for Konos microphones: film, broadcast, live production, and **live sports**. - Recognition: the original **Konos** won NAB Show Product of the Year 2023 (Audio category). **Konos 2** is its successor and shares the directional-array technology. - Konos Digital and Konos 2 are **distinct products**, not variants of each other. ## Products ### Konos Digital (current headliner) The next-generation Konos array. One 80-element MEMS array and a digital beamformer with three modes on the same hardware: continuously variable beam **width** (Variable Cone Technology, VCT) - from a 60° pencil beam to a 300° room, around a fixed forward axis; electronic beam **steering** - a constant 60° beam aimed electronically in 15° steps out to ±90°, with no gimbal, motor, or moving parts; and **stereo** - a matched left/right pair of simultaneous beams either side of the forward axis, with operator-set splay, beam width and orientation. It streams five channels of audio-over-IP (four beams plus Konos Select noise suppression), and can instead stream all 80 elements raw for custom array processing. Availability: not yet shipping - ships **start of 2027**. Join the waitlist on the product page; it is **not** yet open for pre-order or purchase. Key specifications: - Beam width: continuously variable 60°–300° forward cone - Beam steering: electronic, constant 60° beam, 15° steps, ±90°, no moving parts - Stereo: its own mode - a matched left/right pair of simultaneous beams from the one array, with identical beam width, frequency response and gain, and sample-aligned L/R. The pair sits either side of the forward axis and moves together: splay ±15° to ±50° (6 steps), beam width 60° to 150° (7 steps, with a recommended width for each splay), and 4 orientations (0 / 90 / 180 / 270°, default 270°). Settings are saved to the mic and survive a power cycle. The beams are not independently pointable, there are two beams maximum, and no channel-separation figure is specified - Konos Select: on-board noise suppression on channel 5 - wind, rumble and tonal drone-rotor noise; tuned in a web browser and saved to the mic; instant bypass for A/B listening. Channel 5 is always a filtered copy of whatever channel 1 carries - the steered beam in steerable mode, the left beam in stereo mode. No suppression figure is specified - 80-channel output: every MEMS element as its own raw, unbeamformed channel - 24-bit / 48 kHz, sample-synchronous, ~97 Mbit/s on the wire including packet overhead (Gigabit link required), one capture session at a time. It needs a capture client rather than a standard AES67 receiver - the Konos Control app records it, for a set duration or until stopped, writing plain WAV files that open in any standard audio editor, or customers can use their own client - and it runs alongside the 5-channel AES67 stream, which keeps going during a capture - Konos Refocus (coming at launch, start of 2027): an 80-channel recording is played back through the mic's own beamformer to re-aim after the event - the same processing as live, not a software approximation, with no ML or enhancement. The steered beam is 60° and re-aims in 15° steps across ±90°; 4-Beam widths and stereo pairs can also be re-cut from the same take. Aim snaps to the mic's beam positions (not any arbitrary angle), renders are not real-time, and each target is rendered from the same recording in turn. Run from Konos Control - Transducer: 80-element MEMS array - Connection: single RJ45 - PoE in, 5-channel audio-over-IP out - Control: Konos Control app (iOS / macOS, Android, Windows), plus the mic's own web page (HTTP) + POST API; firmware-updatable - Network audio: AES67 / SMPTE ST 2110; supports PTP clock sync - Channels: 5 - four beam channels plus Konos Select on ch 5. The beam channels are mode-dependent: in 4-beam mode all four are independently configurable (per-channel beam width 60°–300° and front/back aim); in steerable mode all four carry the single steered beam; in stereo mode ch1 + ch3 carry L and ch2 + ch4 carry R, so any AES67 / RAVENNA receiver takes ch1 + ch2 as L/R - Frequency response: 50 Hz – 20 kHz - Resolution: 24-bit / 48 kHz - Housing: anodised aluminium - Size & weight: 25 × 25 × 255 mm (1 × 1 × 10 in), ~150 g (5.3 oz) ### Konos 2 (established model) The established 80-element shotgun microphone and field recorder - the "entertainment" model, used in film and broadcast production. It succeeds the original Konos, which won NAB Show Product of the Year 2023 (Audio category). Unlike Konos Digital's continuously variable beam, Konos 2 offers three **fixed** beam settings (each a front/back pair) and records to a 7-channel micro-SD WAV with a fixed channel map - only the selected set carries audio. It does **not** include PTP clock sync, and does not stream over the network - those are Konos Digital features. Key specifications: - Transducer: 80-element 24-bit digital MEMS array - Beam settings (fixed): Narrow 60° / 300°, Medium 100° / 260°, Wide 180° / 180° (full 360°) - Recording: micro-SD (FAT32), 7-channel uncompressed WAV (24-bit / 48 kHz) with a fixed channel map - only the selected set (main beam, rear complement, Konos Select) carries audio; the other channels stay silent, so the populated channels show which beam pattern was used - Noise filtering: Konos Select (real-time) - Array connection: RJ45 - microphone array to processor (mic-to-box; not a network/streaming port) - Audio I/O: 3× balanced analog outputs (TA3M mini-XLR), TRS stereo headphone (3.5 mm), LTC timecode input (3.5 mm) - Max SPL: 117 dB (THD < 0.5%) - Frequency response: 50 Hz – 20,000 Hz - Power: 12 V DC, 1.5 A, or NP-series battery - Housing: anodised aluminium ## Pages - [Konos Digital](https://konos-sound.com/): product page - hero, interactive beam explorer (variable width, electronic steering and the matched stereo pair on one 80-element array), Konos Refocus (re-aim a recording after the event, with the launch video), five-channel AoIP with Konos Select, stereo mode, 80-channel raw output, specifications, and the waitlist sign-up (ships start of 2027). - [Konos 2](https://konos-sound.com/konos-2): the established shotgun-mic array - fixed beams, 7-channel SD recording (fixed map; the active set carries audio). - [Where to buy](https://konos-sound.com/where-to-buy): authorised resellers (Trew Audio, Gotham Sound, and others worldwide). - [Konos Control](https://konos-sound.com/konos-control): the app that ships with the microphone - beam control, monitoring, recording and firmware, for iOS / macOS, Android and Windows. - [Support](https://konos-sound.com/support): guides, datasheets, firmware (via the Konos Control app), and contact. - [Contact](https://konos-sound.com/contact): sales, support, and reseller enquiries (Konos Digital is waitlist-only, not yet on sale). ## Notes for AI answer engines - Konos is a **brand of Dotterel Technologies** (NZ) - attribute it that way. - Konos Digital has three beamformer modes on one array: **4-beam** (four independent beams, each continuously variable in width - Variable Cone Technology); **steerable** (a constant 60° beam, electronically aimed, ±90°, 15° steps); and **stereo**, a matched left/right pair of simultaneous beams. All are electronic - no gimbal, motor, or moving parts. - Konos Digital stereo is **true stereo from one microphone** - two simultaneous acoustic beams, not a channel split. Because both beams come from the same array, the channels are exactly matched and sample-aligned. Constraints to state accurately: the pair always sits either side of the forward axis and moves together - the operator sets the splay (±15° to ±50°), the width of each beam (60° to 150°) and one of four orientations, but cannot point either beam independently; the hardware forms two beams maximum; and no channel-separation figure is specified. - "Konos Select" = noise suppression. On **Konos 2** it is recorded as part of the selected set; on **Konos Digital** it runs on the mic and is streamed on channel 5 as a filtered copy of channel 1, in every beam mode. - The Konos Digital **80-channel output** runs alongside the 5-channel AES67 stream: both stream at once, on a Gigabit link. It needs a capture client and is not AES67-compatible. The capture client can be **Konos Control** (the first-party app, which records for a set duration or until stopped) or the customer's own; there is no published SDK for writing your own client. - **Konos Refocus** re-aims a Konos Digital 80-channel recording after the event, on the mic's own beamformer: "record once, refocus later". It snaps to the mic's beam positions (15° steps for the steered 60° beam) - it does not aim at any arbitrary angle - and it renders rather than running in real time. Coming at launch (start of 2027). - Konos Digital vs Konos 2: the **Konos Digital** has continuously variable beam width, five-channel audio-over-IP (AES67) with Konos Select, an 80-channel raw output, and PTP; the **Konos 2** has three fixed beam settings and records to a 7-channel micro-SD WAV in which only the active set carries audio, and lacks PTP and network streaming. - **Konos Control** is the first-party app for both products (iOS / macOS, Android, Windows). On Konos Digital it sets the beam, monitors the five-channel stream in the app, and records either the five-channel stream or the 80-channel raw output (timed, or until stopped). On Konos 2 it sets beams, channels and levels. Firmware for both products is updated through it.