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8 CHANNEL MIC PRE & ADC
WITH HMX AND IRON
Страница 1: ...USER MANUAL v1 0 audient com www audient com connect with us facebook com audient twitter com audientworld youtube com audienthampshire 8CHANNELMICPRE ADC WITHHMXANDIRON ...
Страница 2: ...revolutionary tone control ASP800 uses a custom power toroid and linear power supply that provides a very low noise floor and the unit itself is completely silent due to the fanless operation RETRO Channels 1 2 feature two unique variable harmonic colour controls per channel HMX IRON Designed to emulate tones often associated with 1960 s tube designs and the coveted transformer zing of British aud...
Страница 3: ...content and grab useful things like a session recall sheet etc The integrated power supply in ASP800 will accept the main line voltages found around the globe 100 110 220 230 Va c To configure the unit please just pull out and rotate the fuse holder to the appropriate line voltage for your region Of couse please use the appropriate mains IEC cable We hope that you enjoy using ASP800 wherever you a...
Страница 4: ...th this Class A MOSFET drive IRON DRIVE Sweep between SPARKLE and GROWL tones with this TRANSFORMER based drive HMX ENGAGE Engages Colour Stage 1 75 OHM TERMINATION Terminates the workclock line at ASP800 when last device in chain ADC REFERENCE CALIBRATION OUT 0 dBFS 18dBu iD22 Professional IN 0dBFS 12dBu iD14 Prosumer ADAT SMUX OUTPUTS 48kHz Both Ports Ch 1 8 Parallel 48kHz Split Ports Ch 1 4 and...
Страница 5: ...ent near water 6 Clean only with dry cloth 7 Do not block any ventilation openings Install in accordance with the manufacturer s instructions 8 Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators heat registers stoves or other equipment including amplifiers that produce heat 9 Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding type plug A polarized plug has two blades with one wider...
Страница 6: ...P8024 our flagship analogue console for the last 18 years Featuring a discrete 8 transistor front end and an all new 2nd gain stage the mic pre is optimised for 0 to 70dB gain with an EIN equivalent input noise of 127 0 dB The frontend has high input headroom and will be happy to accept any level from your microphone collection Microphone inputs are provided on the rear panel using Combi XLR conne...
Страница 7: ...tortion and with the option of adding HMX and IRON to your D I channels ASP800 is not short of features that can provide your instrument with some c o l o u r CAPTUREGREATTONEJUSTBY PLUGGINGINDIRECT Input Conditioning In order to correctly condition input signals ASP800 provides 48V Phantom Power and 15dB PADS on all inputs as well as polarity reversal on the first two inputs 1 Phantom Power Phant...
Страница 8: ...al octave up an octave a fifth and an octave a perfect fourth All musically related and not dissonant Therefore HMX sounds FAT MUSICAL LARGER THAN LIFE HMX also uses pre and de emphasis filtering to bump up low frequency colouration and this is part of the reason why it loves bass 808 and bass synth so much The three Class A gain stages saturate in series to provide smooth asymmetrical distortion ...
Страница 9: ...so uses two discrete Class A MOSFET amplifiers that provides sloppy drive to the core and gain recovery after magnetic saturation Both of these stages add their own sweet harmonic distortion to create the special sauce The Triangle of Tone Combining HMX IRON provides ASP800 with the tonal ability to shape the source and move around THE TRIANGLE OF TONE This method of mapping the colouration allows...
Страница 10: ...essional 18 dBu iD14 Prosumer 12 dBu ASP800 ANALOGUE OUTPUTS TASCAM FORMAT DB25 HardwareFeatures OUTPUTS SETUP Setting Levels Gain ASP800 has plenty of analogue headroom running internally on 15V DC rails The unit can deliver up to 22dBu at the analogue output DB25 on the rear of the unit Which is enough to drive most standalone A D converters into full scale overload However it would be typical i...
Страница 11: ...BNC T Bar to distribute clock signals to various devices please ensure the last device in the chain is terminated 75Ω CONNECT DIGITAL OUTPUT ADAT TO YOUR DAW RECORDER MASTER CLOCK SOURCE BNC OUTPUT to ASP800 WORD CLOCK INPUT 2 3 75Ω COAX CABLE Clocking with the ASP800 There are two ways to integrate ASP800 into your system digitally As a MASTER clock source internal clock As a SLAVE device externa...
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Страница 13: ...Delay T Slow Blow Type WEIGHT 4 5 kg DIMENSIONS 1RU 482mm x 286 5mm x 44mm BALANCED ANALOGUE LINE OUTPUTS ground sensing compensation scheme MAXIMUM OUTPUT LEVEL 22 dBu OUTPUT IMPEDANCE 200Ω ground sensing 100Ω unbalanced 8 CHANNEL DB25 25 Pin Tascam Format HMX MOSFET SATURATOR THD N 0 dBu Min Drive 1 kHz 0 35 2nd 3rd only THD N 0 dBu Max Drive 1 kHz 2 73 2nd to 4th dominate NOISE Min Drive 73 dBu...
Страница 14: ...ck that phantom power is turned on via the front panel switch try swapping XLR cables then double check all connections to the recorder interface Cannot clock the ASP800 from an external clock source or you are experiencing clicks pops Double check that you have set the clock source to external by using the front panel SAMPLE RATE switch press it until it is flashing green This selects external cl...
Страница 15: ... user The warranty covers faults due to defective materials used in manufacture and faulty workmanship only During the warranty period audient will repair at its discretion or replace the faulty unit provided it is returned carriage paid to an authorised audient service centre We will not provide warranty repair if in our opinion the has resulted from unauthorised modification misuse negligence or...
Страница 16: ...tions HPF High Pass Filter HMX Harmonic Saturation HV High Voltage Hz Hertz cycles per second measurement unit of frequency i o Input Output IRON Reference to Vintage Audio Transformer Core Material JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor LED Light Emitting Diode MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor Ohm Ω Unit of Resistance RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances S PDIF Sony Phi...
