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Digital Desk

Yamaha TF Series

Yamaha’s Starter Series, comprising three digital desks, features 1-knob and GainFinder thus offering new solutions
ensuring fast and safe handling.

Text and Measuring: Anselm Goertz | Photos: Dieter Stork

Review from Issue 9/2015

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Summary of Contents for TF Series

Page 1: ...ies Yamaha s Starter Series comprising three digital desks features 1 knob and GainFinder thus offering new solutions ensuring fast and safe handling Text and Measuring Anselm Goertz Photos Dieter Stork Review from Issue 9 2015 ...

Page 2: ...n module suited for setting up a redundant net work Springtime 2016 will also see the launch of the new stage box Tio1608D with 16 inputs and 8 outputs and also fully remote capable preamps It will also be equipped with a primary and secondary network connection and can either be operated in redundant or in daisy chain mode with additional stage boxes The user interface is absolutely state of the ...

Page 3: ...ack you will have to use a computer with suitable software connected via one of the host ports Coming soon Dante network and Stage Box Today s audio world is digital Streaming services music servers networked devices digital technology is everywhere The interfaces to acoustic signals i e converters though are still analog Microphones constitute one side of the signal chain speakers the other Micro...

Page 4: ...ainst malfunc tions and failures Not least because of these reasons the Dante audio network manufactured by Audinate was chosen as the native network used in the QL and CL series as well as in the corresponding stage boxes The simplest conﬁguration in combination with a TF QL or CL mixer consists of an I O box connected to a console by using just a simple network connection and nothing else In cas...

Page 5: ... mixing desk a preamp is of the same importance as in analog ones as its task is to get everything from weak microphone signals to high line levels deriving from keyboards or DI boxes to the same overall level The preamps in TF consoles offer a very wide gain range from 6 dB to 66 dB Zero dB then stands for the maximum volume of an analog signal with a 26 dBu level As the preamp is fully remote an...

Page 6: ...ate but at the maximum gain of 66 dB 86 dB can still be achieved Based on these ﬁgures the equivalent input noise will be 126 dBu The corresponding interference spectra ﬁgure 6 show a clean white noise Including the additional 20 dB gain the over all noise level is 65 respectively 41 dBu If you then subtract the 20 dB the corresponding values will be 85 and 61 dBu The maximum output voltage at the...

Page 7: ...y great 110 dB 0 0003 Reaching these good values is a bit more difficult when the preamp is confronted with higher gain settings here 60 dB Still the ﬁgures are nevertheless quite good compared to measuring at 0 dB You ll ﬁnd the cor responding curves in ﬁgure 9 In addition to the absolute distortion values their spectral struc ture is quite interesting The desired harmonic distortion spec trum sh...

Page 8: ...e really good DIM curves for 0 and 60 dB preamp gain are shown in ﬁgures 12 and 13 The excel lent minimum of 85 dB in both cases was measured at ap proximately 10 dB below the maximum volume So again really outstanding results Signal processing and structure Digital equipment has the advantage that the order of the blocks of signal processing can be chosen quite ﬂexibly The same goes for the taps ...

Page 9: ...s features an adjustable 20 Hz to 600 Hz high pass ﬁlter and a 4 band fully parametric EQ which can either all be deﬁned as Bell ﬁlters or alterna tively one as high or one as low shelf ﬁlter The new user inter face for the ﬁlter section has turned out great You can enter all data directly using the physical encoders or just use the touch panel controls one or two ﬁnger mode Using one ﬁnger you ca...

Page 10: ...or reaction to a sine burst with time constants of 50 and 500 ms for attack and release The threshold level of 20 dB here refers to 0 dBfs in the dig ital domain The two FX buses and if required also the six Stereo Aux busses numbers 9 to 20 can be fed from all inputs All respec tive masters comprise four band fully parametric EQs and sev eral effects you will have varied reverb programs delays ch...

Page 11: ...mes louder and louder For inputs there is a preset Vocal ﬁlter with a 140 Hz high pass ﬁlter and a slight cut of the low mids and a boost of the higher frequencies In addition to the use of ﬁlters dynamic processing constitutes the most important function of a mixing desk Especially LIVE music often generates a large dynamic range meaning you would wish a certain compression would take place Also ...

Page 12: ...ers as well as remote apps for iPad and iPhone thus making them really convenient and very useful for technicians and musi cians Yamaha experts have also deliberated thoroughly about how to facilitate getting started for beginners That is why they have included ample libraries with predeﬁned channel settings for all kinds of instruments and established microphone mod els GainFinder for the inputs ...

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