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G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N
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G-3 / Jun 2004
General Information
Introduction
The G-3 Digital Control Surface is the latest addition to Wheatstone’s
intercompatible G-series of control surfaces. It comes with four stereo program
mixes, four mix-minus busses and the ability to select a source in the Bridge routing
system and send it to a fader or monitor circuit. The G-3 enables monitoring for the
control room, headphone, and studio, which features its own source selection; the
studio output also has a talkback feature. The 8-character LED dot matrix displays
are included above each fader and control room and studio monitors. The G-3 control
surface has four programmable buttons that can be used as configuration presets or
to trigger salvos. Designed to integrate flawlessly with the Wheatstone BRIDGE
digital audio network router, the G-3 control surface allows you to easily create large
or small platform-based systems that are exceptionally user-friendly and flexible.
Wheatstone BRIDGE network cages house all I/O ports and engine cards, and may
be wired in tandem within a single equipment room or interconnected to separate
remote locations by means of CAT-5 cables to provide single wire studio integration
schemes.
Once configurated, the system operates entirely independently of external
computers. Configuration itself is intuitive and carried out onsite by means of user-
friendly graphic interfaces provided by Wheatstone desktop software. The G-3
system also takes full advantage of Wheatstone’s exclusive VDip configuration
software, so that studio functions (like mutes, fader and timer starts, tally, etc.) are
easily accomplished right at your desktop. Once completed, all settings are retained
in non-volatile storage, allowing the entire system to run independently. Ethernet
protocol is built in, providing interface with automation, scheduling, and hardware
controllers as you require.