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Overview
The DC2012 is the next progression from our highly successful DC99-II commentary box.
Designed from the ground up, the unit has a sturdy two piece steel chassis with custom manufactured
protective handles. Facilities have been greatly improved with the highest quality audio a prime
objective.
The DC2012 has a paper white liquid crystal display with six control push buttons to facilitate intuitive
adjustment of the units various settings. It may be easily locked to prevent operator adjustment.
Including three top quality microphone amplifiers with built in limiters, separate line level microphone
outputs with a mixed output facility , four lazy talkback outputs and a total of ten available monitoring
inputs we feel the DC2012 is a very flexible commentary box.
Microphone Amplifiers
The DC2012 includes three digitally controlled microphone amplifiers with magnificently low distortion
and really natural sounding audio amplification. Microphone amplifier gain is adjustable in 1dB steps
from +15dB to +70dB or may be set to +5dB. Each microphone amplifier has an individual XLR
electronically balanced output. Each line level microphone output also has a built in limiter with
adjustable threshold from off to +20dBm. There is also a mixed output available with its own limiter and
selectable comm. A/Comm.B/Guest mix.
The unit has four ‘Lazy’ outputs (re-directed audio) which silently take the commentator microphone off
the air and re-directs the microphone audio to any of the four outputs. These outputs are common to