Clear-Com KB-701 1-Channel Flush-Mount Speaker/Mic Station

The Clear-Com KB-701 is built for the kind of communication infrastructure that disappears into the room — flush-mounted into a production desk or broadcast console, wired into the party-line circuit, and ready to transmit the moment a cue needs to be called. It is a 1-channel half-duplex station, which aligns it with the communication model used in theater stage management, broadcast control rooms, and live event production: discrete, push-to-talk calls on a shared party-line bus where everyone hears clearly and no one's open mic bleeds ambient noise into the circuit. The integrated electret microphone with its onboard limiter is the sonic core of the station — the limiter catches peaks before they hit the bus, so a harried director calling a cue during a noisy scene transition doesn't cause clipping artifacts for every other operator on the line.

Build quality follows Clear-Com's professional standard — the KB-701 is designed for permanent infrastructure deployment, not for portable rigs that get packed and unpacked. The flush-mount chassis integrates into standard production furniture panels, and once installed, the station is robust against the physical demands of daily live production use: repeated button presses, occasional spilled drinks, and the general abuse of an active production environment. Power is drawn from the party-line circuit itself, eliminating the separate PSU dependency that complicates installation. For broadcast studios, theater production consoles, sports commentary positions, and corporate AV control rooms where clean, reliable, permanently-installed intercom communication is a non-negotiable operational requirement, the KB-701 is a well-specified, field-proven choice from the intercom category's most trusted manufacturer.