Canford have been designing and manufacturing audio, video and broadcast products in the UK for over 37 years and will be highlighting just a small selection of the 4500+ own brand products available at BVE 2014 on stand J76 and at Cabsat stand C8-12. Canford are well-known in the industry for supplying durable and dependable products to both foreign and domestic professionals and are constantly developing and refining new and existing products and services to aid these core industry installers and end-users.
With two manufacturing plants in Washington Tyne & Wear and Portland Dorset, Canford produce almost all own brand products within the UK. These include the Tecpro Communication System, Neal Suspect Interview Recorders, EMO Power Distribution Units, Mains Switchers , Mic and Line Splitters, Panamic Boom Poles, as well as the famous MDU’s, Black Boxes and an extensive range of Termination Panels all used and installed in over 50 countries.
Having this blend of manufacturing experience and industry knowledge has allowed Canford to rapidly develop bespoke products for customers within very short timescales when required. Most recently a DMX controlled colour changing rack light, designed, produced and delivered within 8 weeks of the order being placed. These are now being used by one of the UK’s major broadcasters.
This ability to both produce products quickly and to also allow bespoke alterations for customer specific applications has seen Canford supply some quite substantial orders, without affecting standard ordering times. This includes a recent order for over 1000 MDU’s, 8000 termination panels, plus quite a bit more, all delivered within the 8 week deadline requested.
Canford currently have dedicated teams to build MDU’s, Tecpro, EMO, Neal, Cable assemblies and our range of termination panels. Manufacturing capabilities include 3 vertical machining centres, a full sheet metal workshop, powder coating plus both engraving and screen printing facilities.
New products at the shows will include the Canford Test Tone Oscillator (outputting 40Hz, 400Hz, 1KHz, 10KHz or 15KHz), Automatic cable tester MK4 used for testing long or short cables, multi-cores and fixed installation cabling, EMO guitar headphone Amp primarily aimed at Guitar technicians for use at the side of stage, a Phase Check system which includes a generator and detector to allow fast testing of the polarity of acoustic transducers, microphone and electronic devices. In line barrel Attenuators have been updated to allow phantom power to pass through the attenuator and finally a low cost, stereo 'lipsync' audio delay unit has been designed for offline editing and monitoring, with the minimum of engineer set-up controls and no user-adjustable controls.
A range of Canford’s screen printed rack blanks will be on show. The blanks allow for custom designs to be screened directly on to the panels for branding, user controls and rack identification. These can be economically produced in relatively small batch sizes.
More information on products on show at BVE
A portable tone generator provides five spot frequencies at 3 test levels, making it suitable for a wide variety of test and circuit identification purposes at both mic and line level. The units is battery powered, with output frequencies of 40Hz, 400Hz, 1kHz, 10kHz and 15kHz, selected by rotary switch and switchable 0dB, -10dB and -60dB balanced, and -6dB, -16dB and -66dB unbalanced.
The Automatic Cable Tester can be used for testing long or short cables, multi-cores and fixed installation cabling. The separate remote barrel allows testing of cables with XLR connectors, where both ends of the cable are not available together. Balanced and unbalanced wired cables can be tested. Poor solder joints and the presence of resistors are shown by a reduction in the intensity of the display illumination. A table of the main fault conditions is printed on the Cable Tester for ease of use.
This product is a robust guitar headphone practice amplifier, which can be clipped onto a belt and allows free movement of the user. Primarily aimed at Guitar technicians for use at side of stage. Powered via a 9v battery the unit will auto switch on/off when the input cable is plugged in.
The test system consist of two units, the signal generator and the detector. The Canford Audio phase check system allows fast testing of the polarity of acoustic transducers, microphones and electronic devices. Sophisticated signal processing allows fast and accurate determination of the absolute polarity, unimpaired by passive crossovers or signal waveform distortions
produced by the device under test. To check acoustical or electrical phasing, the generator is connected to the input of the device under test, and the detector to the output signal. Subsequent signal processing enables the detector to decide whether the device under test reverses signal phase or not. The result of the test procedure is displayed via two LED’s, the green one indicating ‘in phase’ and the red one indicating ‘out of phase’ condition. Due to the versatile input/output structure of both the generator and the detector, any combination of acoustical and electrical input and output may be evaluated.
The new range allow phantom power to pass through the attenuator.
A two-channel, low cost, stereo 'lipsync' audio delay for offline editing and monitoring, with a minimum of engineer set-up controls and no user-adjustable controls. The inputs are balanced, line-level, or unbalanced, consumer level (500mV), auto-sensing, on XLR 3-pin female connectors. Output is balanced, line-level, on XLR 3-pin male connectors. The gain is adjustable via recessed controls -12dB to +12dB, accessible by screwdriver or trimpot tool. The delay is user-adjustable from 850 micro seconds to 337 milliseconds in 1 millisecond steps, 
via recessed controls accessible by screwdriver or trimpot tool. The unit is housed in a rugged, extruded aluminium case with protective end-bezels. Power input is 230V AC via a fused IEC inlet (mains cable not included).