Every sound has a true origin.
Drop a stone in still water and the ripples reach every edge, in order, from one point. VIP treats sound the same way.
Our proprietary algorithms and processing place each sound at its true point of origin, whether that’s the singer, the violin, or footsteps crossing the stage, and let it ripple out to every seat at exactly the right moment. Your ears hear where it came from, not where a speaker happens to be hanging.
- One point of originEach voice and instrument starts where it lives on stage.
- Every seat, in orderThe sound reaches each guest at the right moment.
- Eyes and ears agreeWhat you see and what you hear come from the same place.
What can VIP solve for you?
Every venue has sound issues front of house can’t ignore. Volumetric Image Propagation leads the way in solving your agonizing acoustical challenges.
“Under balconies and back rows can’t understand a word.”
Clarity at every seat
Speech and music arrive at each guest in the near field, from the front row to the last balcony seat.
More on clarity
“Our neighbors complain every time there’s a show.”
Loud inside. Quiet outside.
Fans get the full impact, while far less sound spills into parking lots, streets and homes.
See how far sound travels
“The only wheelchair spaces were in the very last row.”
Access shouldn’t mean the back row.
VIP builds assistive sound by section, so accessible seating gets the full experience wherever it is in the room.
Sound for everyone
“The room is beautiful. The sound is not.”
Keep the architecture. Lose the echo.
Sound delivered at the listener bounces far less, and nothing hangs over the design.
Sound and architecture
Loud inside. Quiet outside.
Curfews, noise limits and neighbors who complain after every show are now part of running a venue. The cause is simple physics: sound thrown a long way has to start loud, and it keeps going. VIP delivers sound in the near field, a couple of feet from each guest, so far less of it ever leaves the venue.
Anywhere people gather to listen.
From an intimate chapel to a stadium suite, VIP adapts to the room. It can live in seats, desks, floors, ceilings, tables or portable pods.
Performing arts
Houses of worship
Live music
Stadium & arena suites
Attractions & immersive shows
Education & corporate
Dining & hospitality
Family entertainment
Don’t see your space? If people sit, stand or gather there to hear something, we’d like to hear about it.
Sound that moves with the story.
Place a voice in the dark, send footsteps across the room, or give one seat a moment of its own. For attractions, immersive theater and live experiences, VIP is a new instrument.
Built by people who live production.
Sanctum Audio was founded by the team behind three decades of broadcast, live-production and worship systems. We’re building VIP into the way people hear together: in venues first, and in time, everywhere.
Tom Janetzke
Co-Founder · CEO
Dan Janetzke
Co-Founder · COOBacked by Skylite Media
The founders’ Pasadena integration firm has delivered broadcast and AV systems for some of the most demanding names in entertainment and media. That field experience goes into every VIP installation.
Also Walt Disney Imagineering and more.
Hear it for yourself.
VIP is something you have to hear. We bring a working system to you, or host you at a demonstration.