D-32 SURROUND SOUND TELEVISION AUDIO CONSOLE Audio For Television—Evolved.™ D-32 SURROUND SOUND TELEVISION AUDIO CONSOLE 2 There is never enough space to fit everything into a television control room. Especially when you get to the audio board. Seems there always has to be a compromise.. Wheatstone is a trusted builder of audio-for-television consoles and has been for more than two decades. We understand the challenges an audio mixer has to deal with. That’s why we’ve built the D-32 to be the most flexible, highest-quality audio console available for television today. Choose the chassis that best fits your footprint then configure it with modules that precisely fit your work style – however you work. This totally modular design extends beyond the chassis. Our Network First™ architecture moves the DSP and logic outside the control surface to give you an incredibly nimble, router-based networkable console that’s flexible, expandable and incredibly easy to use and service. One that is future- proof and will keep you up and running no matter what. 3 D-32 SURROUND SOUND TELEVISION AUDIO CONSOLE With a minimum chassis width of only 58 inches, the D-32’s eight subgroups can now be configured the D-32 is compact enough to fit into the smallest as 5.1 stems with full EQ and Dynamics process- production suite, editing facility, or remote truck. ing capability. Additionally, processing can now be Don’t let the small size fool you, though. Packing applied to the 16 mix-minus / direct out busses and the power of our Gibraltar® Mix Engine, the D-32 16 aux sends available in the D-32. sports big console features. Audio operators The D-32 uses the battle tested Wheatstone love the smooth, solid controls, the vast array of Network First™ Bridge Router network as its audio mixing tools, and the unmatched versatility of the infrastructure, providing networked I/O for AES, mix-minus and bus-minus systems. Because it’s Analog Mic and Line Level, HD-SDI, MADI, and based on the Wheatstone Bridge Router, engineers GPI Logic in a full crosspoint routing environment. love the ease of integration with systems from As with all Wheatstone Bridge based systems Ross, Grass Valley, and Sony. external control from Ross Overdrive, Grass Valley Wheatstone is synonymous with the finest audio- Ignite, and SONY ELC is fully supported. for-television consoles available today. For our The D-32 continues Wheatstone’s tradition of D-32, we’ve taken things to a whole new level. building the finest audio tools for television. With an Wheatstone is using the power of its new Gibraltar EXTENSIVE feature set in a very compact frame, Mix Engine to expand the feature set of our you will achieve audibly superior results, whether legacy D-12 and D-16 control surfaces. Due to broadcasting live or in a production environment. the increased processing capability offered by As with all Wheatstone products, D-32 is made right Gibraltar, the D-32 can now support up to 128 input here in the USA in our New Bern, NC headquarters, channels on paged or non-paging faders. Thanks and technical support is available on both coasts. to the 1,024 processing paths offered by Gibraltar, 4 • Very compact footprint (36 Input faders • Auxiliary Sends: 16 Stereo controlling 72 simultaneous sources • Outputs from all busses and bus-minus are in a surface as small as 58” wide) configured within the Bridge router matrix • Programmable “soft” knob above each fader and can be analog, and/or digital, or not fitted lets the user assign frequently used functions • Monitor Feeds: • LCD Meterbridge displays metering for all One 5.1 Surround, Three Stereo Studio feeds output busses as well as processing displays • Processing per channel: • Main Busses: One 5.1 Program, Three Stereo - Phase Reverse Program - Pan / Balance Control • Submasters: 8 Stereo, standard (can be - Stereo Mode Control optionally configured for 5.1) - 4-Band Parametric Equalizer • Mix-Minus: 16 Mono with automatic - High-, Low-Pass, Tunable Notch Filters Confidence feed switching - Compressor / Limiter / Gate - Continuously variable delay • Bus-minus: Direct IFB feed from every input fader channel with direct talkback 5 Five Things you can do with D-32 that you can’t do with similarly-priced consoles of conventional architecture: 6 1. Assign any source of any Five Things type to any fader 2. Hot-swap components you can do with D-32 that you can’t do without powering down or disassembling with similarly-priced consoles of 3. Add additional control surfaces conventional architecture: which share the same I/O 4. Run automation, even without a physical control surface 5. Configure the layout of the board any way you want D-32: Wheatstone Is Automation Ready The power of Wheatstone’s advanced mixing router includes handshaking technology with many of the broadcast industry’s automation leaders. SONY 7 While the footprint of the D-32 Control Surface can be very compact (as little as 58 inches wide) it’s only the surface (pardon the pun). The power of the D-32 comes from Wheatstone’s proven (and proven again, over and over) Network First technology. Providing exceptional power, not just for your immediate mixing needs, but for your future audio needs across your entire operation, Network First is the most advanced, most stable environment available in the pro audio-for- television world today. And it lends itself to modern installations perfectly. Whether you are mixing for broadcast, production, or will be streaming and re-purposing your content (or all of the above), Wheatstone and our Network First technology should be your first choice. D-32 Architecture: ™ Network First The advantages at a glance: Feature Conventional D-32 Max Inputs 256 3,072 DSP Channels 700 1,024 Redundant DSP NO YES Networked I/O NO YES Any source, any fader NO YES Hot-swappable components NO YES Easy access for maintenance NO YES All faders 5.1 capable NO YES Sources can be any type NO YES Share I/O without additional hardware NO YES Upgrade control surface only NO YES 8 Ask any TV audio engineer - audio for television is more complicated than video. For every video scene, Traditional “In Box” Design there are multiple channels of audio that must be Control Surface routed, mixed, edited and made to sound natural and Internal routing seamless. This typically involves 5.1 surround sound Digital Signal Processing and many sources, so the need for audio consoles that Inputs/Outputs can handle it all has created boards that have become Logic Functions bloated and inefficient, cramming way too much tech- Mix Engine nology into too small a space (see right). Ironically, to accommodate this, consoles have become physically too big for today’s increasingly-cramped production environments. Enter Wheatstone. With our Network First technology, we’ve moved every- D-32 Design thing essential to audio routing, logic and processing out of the console and into a rack, accessible via the network (represented by the cloud at right). This allows Interactive a compact, efficient control surface to sit where an Digital Network overgrown traditional console once sat. It provides Digital Signal Processing facility-wide access to all of your audio, regardless of Inputs/Outputs where it’s coming from. You can route any audio source Logic Functions to any fader on any control surface within your network. Mix Engine Additionally, because we’ve designed our rack cages with front access and full hot-swappability, you’ll never need to tear apart a console to upgrade, repair or Control Surface otherwise access its components. This translates to D-32 Architecture: ™ Network First 100% uptime and unprecedented “futurability”. Control With all the audio traveling on a Operator Sees Surface network, the ability to physically 1,024 Channels bring in audio sources from wherever Not Seen of Digital Signal you need via a single Cat-5 cable is By Operator Processing realized. Need a dozen inputs from Up to All faders Any Input 3,072 are 5.1 can connect Studio A? Place a stagebox there and inputs capable to any Fader plug it into the network. Same with any One 5.1 Mixing Bus place there’s a mic or audio feed - up to Three stereo busses 3,072 of them! Sound ridiculous? Upmixing Downmixing Stereo and 5.1 between between Surround See NUMBERS COUNT on page 11. Stereo and 5.1 5.1 and Stereo Panning Controls 16 16 8 True Four Digitally Finally, all of this comes together for Aux Mix-Minus Audio Controlled Sends Busses Groups Masters the operator in a control surface - itself a networked device that connects with Equalization and Dynamics Processing Available for Each Input, Subgroup, Aux Send, Monitor and Program Output a single cable. This surface has the ability to control and manipulate the network and access its audio and processing resources, just as the control surface of a more conventional console controls its inner workings. To the operator, the look and feel is completely familiar. Since the entire system is modular, its components can live wherever you need them. Multiple control surfaces can access ANY audio from ANYWHERE on the network. No more making concessions in the form of dedicated input strips or physically rerouting inputs for different applications. 9 D-32 Architecture: Inside D-32 D-32: Gibraltar Under The Hood ® The Gibraltar Mix Engine is the powerhouse of the D-32. GIBRALTAR Its modular design uses multiple Gibraltar DSP cards to MIX ENGINE provide the mixing, bussing, and processing power which the control surface presents to the operator.