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Live Range Brochure Live Mixing Consoles Beyond Live Live Brochure COVER.qxd 6/12/02 11:05 am Page 1 BEYOND LIVE... LIVE MIXING CONSOLES 324 LIVE Soundcraft’s Spirit range of live and powered mixing consoles are SPIRIT 8 32 Input Live Digital just part of their extensive range Mixing Console of Professional Audio Equipment. DIGITAL 328XD In the studio as well as on stage, Soundcraft’s designs have become synonymous with versatility, innovation and sonic excellence. 8-Bus Professional Mixing Console 32 Channel Digital MONITOR 2 Mixing Console On the Since the launch of the original Spirit Folio in 1992, the Folio Range of mixers has STUDIO ROAD set the standards in the field of compact mixers. Ideal for both studio and live and in the applications, FX16, FX8, SX, F1 and Notepad still represent the pinnacle in compact STUDIO mixers for usability, sound quality and value for money. Spirit Studio, a design that has remained virtually unchanged since its introduction 12-Bus Stage Monitor/ in 1991, has become a recording classic used by the likes of Portishead, M:People Professional Multitrack FOH/Theatre Mixer Recording Mixing and Radiohead. Consoles Since its launch in 1998, the multi-award-winning Digital 328 console, with its LIVE 42 ABSOLUTE ground breaking easy-to-use interface, has revolutionized low cost digital mixing in studios and live applications. Soundcraft’s award-winning range of nearfield studio monitors – Absolute Zero, Absolute 2 and Absolute 4P – have taken the Soundcraft name into top studios such as The Roundhouse and Ridge Farm, and won many friends in the production A Range of world. John Leckie and Tony Tavenor are just two internationally acclaimed 4-Bus Professional Professional Nearfield Mixing Console Monitors producers to use Soundcraft monitoring. FX16 SPIRIT M SERIES Around the Soundcraft is committed to excellence in audio. In eighty-eight countries, in MIXING CONSOLES WORLD countless studios, venues and recordings Soundcraft provides the inspiration. You simply have to do the rest. 16 Mono Channels with onboard For details of the complete Soundcraft range contact your Soundcraft dealer or Lexicon Effects Compact Mixing visit the Soundcraft website where you’ll find comprehensive details of every Consoles with integral FX8 product, including downloadable PDF brochures, technical support and user group rack mounting information. LX7 8 Mono Channels Soundcraft with onboard Lexicon Effects Harman International Industries Ltd., Cranborne House, LIVE SX 7-Bus Professional Cranborne Road, Potters Bar, Herts, EN6 3JN, UK. Mixing Console Tel: +44 (0)1707 665000 Fax: +44 (0)1707 660742 RANGE E: [email protected] POWERSTATION 1200 AND 600 Soundcraft USA BROCHURE 12 Mono & 4 Stereo Inputs 1449 Donelson Pike, Nashville, TN 37217, USA. F1 Tel: +1 (615) 360 0471 Fax: +1 (615) 360 0273 E: [email protected] Mixing Consoles with integral power amps www.soundcraft.com and Lexicon effects 6 or 8 Mono & POWERPAD 4 Stereo Inputs NOTEPAD Soundcraft reserves the right to improve or otherwise alter any information in this document or any other documentation supplied hereafter. E&OE 02/02 This equipment complies with the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC POWERED MIXERS Compact 10 Input Spirit by Soundcraft Registered Community Trademark / RTM Nº 000557793 Mixing Console with 4 Mono & Soundcraft Registered Community Trademark / RTM Nº 000557827 2 x 30W power amp 2 Stereo Inputs Part Nº A4: ZL0527 US: ZL0528 02/02 Live Brochure intro 2_9.qxd 6/12/02 11:17 am Page 2 CONTENTS AT THE HEART OF LIVE SOUND Choosing & Using Soundcraft Live Mixers Quick Selection Table Page 4 Choosing & Using a 4 - 9 ? Major features explained Pages 5 - 7 TEXAS Live Mixer; FAQs Frequently Asked Questions Pages 8 - 9 Spirit 8 8-Bus Professional Mixing Console Features Pages 10 - 11 Famous Soundcraft users The Mixers in detail 10 - 32 Controls & Connections Pages 12 - 14 Specifications; Block Diagram Pages 15 today include artists like The Orb, Manic Street Preachers, Monitor 2 12-Bus Stage Monitor / FOH / Theatre Console For nearly thirty years, Gomez, Jean-Michel Jarre, Features Pages 16 - 17 Soundcraft consoles have been Sasha, Catatonia, M:People, Controls & Connections Page 18 the Chemical Brothers, Asian Specifications; Block Diagram Page 19 at the heart of live production around the world. From Dub Foundation, Texas, Pulp GOMEZ Live 42 4-Bus Professional Mixing Console venues, theatres and houses of and Portishead*. To discover Features Pages 20 - 21 worship to global stadium for yourself why they all Controls & Connections Pages 22 - 23 tours by artists such as Bruce chose Soundcraft, read on. Specifications; Block Diagram Page 24 Springsteen, Bryan Adams and Garbage, Soundcraft consoles M Series Compact Mixing Consoles are chosen for their Features Page 25 Controls & Connections Page 26 uncompromising sound quality, Specifications; Block Diagram Page 27 comprehensive facilities, intuitive operation and rugged LX7 7-Bus Professional Mixing Console reliability. At Soundcraft’s manufacturing facility ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION Features Pages 28 - 29 outside London, we use world class Controls & Connections Pages 30 - 31 Since its launch in 1991, the Spirit production techniques including the Specifications; Block Diagram Page 32 range has continued the Soundcraft latest surface mount technologies to tradition and has been responsible for ensure every console is packed with Live Mixer 33 - 35 Applications Using Live Mixers in various applications many ground-breaking new products features. At the same time, we ensure including the revolutionary Folio and Applications Live Mixing Page 33 Outdoor Events Page 34 reliability with continual investment in Houses of Worship 34 Theatre Sound 35 the multi-award winning Digital 328. the latest testing systems, ensuring Installed Sound 34 Presentations 35 From young musicians to international every Soundcraft console is built and artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, the tested to the same exacting standards. Manic Street Preachers and the Chemical Brothers, the Spirit range has This brochure outlines the key features Powered Mixers * No endorsements implied. become synonymous with professional and specifications of the Spirit range Choosing 36 - 37 Choosing Powered Mixers Page 36 features, sound quality and reliability, of Soundcraft live mixing consoles. For Powered ? Powered Mixer Features Page 37 all at affordable prices. more detailed information on Mixers individual products, please contact Soundcraft’s success stems from years Soundcraft or your nearest dealer, or PowerStation Powered Mixing Consoles of experience specialising in the design visit the Soundcraft website shown on and manufacture of mixing consoles. Powered Mixers Features Pages 38 - 39 the back cover. 38 - 44 Our Product Managers are in constant in detail Controls & Connections Pages 40 - 41 Specifications; Block Diagram Page 42 communication with sound engineers and musicians around the world, aPowerpad Compact Powered Mixing Console ensuring the development of consoles Features Page 43 that truly match the needs of our Controls & Connections Pages 43 - 44 customers. Specifications; Block Diagram Page 44 Applications Using Powered Mixers in various applications Live Mixing Page 45 Presentations Page 46 Powered Mixer 46 - 47 Installed Sound 46 Power Supply Data 47 Applications Outdoor Events 46 (all models) Other Soundcraft Products More Soundcraft back cover products See Back Cover 2 3 Live Brochure intro 2_9.qxd 6/12/02 11:17 am Page 4 CHOOSING QUICKA LIVE REFERENCE MIXER TABLE USING LIVE MIXERS To help you find the right live USING LIVE MIXERS mixing console for your needs, You don’t have to take centre stage to we’ve summarised the key feel the heat of live performance – ask Clear layout is an important aspect of features and recommended any engineer, and they’ll tell you that mixer design that is often overlooked. applications of each model live mixing places special demands on preferred since a balanced cable will All Soundcraft desks follow the below. equipment and on personnel. In the reject interference and noise where an familiar conventions of using white recording studio or in the dubbing unbalanced cable may pick up fader tops for channels, and red fader suite there’s always a second chance, unwanted signals from lighting and tops for groups. While it may sound but in live sound you get only one other equipment. trivial, under pressure and in dimly-lit Quick Reference chance to get it right. Spirit 8 Monitor 2 Live 42 M Series LX7 Mixer Selector clubs, it makes a big difference. So when the pressure’s on, why do so BALANCED BALANCED SOURCE INTERFERENCE MIC/LINE Furthermore, all Soundcraft live mixers many engineers choose Soundcraft? INPUT feature custom pots and faders, Applications Perhaps because we’ve had nearly 30 ensuring that their sound quality is Large Bands FOH • • years experience at the forefront of matched by a usable, effective SCREEN Medium Bands FOH • • • professional live sound, listening to interface. Both rotary pots and linear Interference appears at the input engineers, and turning their comments Small Bands FOH • • • with same polarity on both the + faders have useful resolution all along into practical products at all levels of and - wires, and is rejected their travel, Touring • • the market. From houses of worship giving you the confidence to fine Stage Monitors • • • to concert halls, and from clubs and tune a mix properly. bars to touring theatre companies, we Large Venue Installed • STEREO INPUTS know what it takes to make a live Medium Venue Installed • • • • mixer perform: the right combination Many sources in live and installed USING HIGH-PASS FILTERS Small Venue Installed •• of control features, presented in as sound are stereo – stereo keyboard Many engineers would say that a high- and sampler outputs, for example, CD Club • • • • intuitive a manner as possible, plus pass filter is the most important crystal-clear audio quality, to satisfy or MiniDisc players for background or Houses of Worship • • • • channel feature, enabling unwanted audiences and performers who expect pre-show music, and stereo cart low-frequency noise to be removed Theatre • • • • • ‘CD-quality’ digital audio from even players for effects in theatre.
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