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User’s Guide OctaMic II

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User’s Guide

 

 

 
 
 

OctaMic II 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

   Usage and Operation 

 

Содержание OctaMic II

Страница 1: ...OctaMic II Professional Mic Line Preamp and AD Converter 8 Channel Microphone Line Preamp with Line Outputs 8 Channel Analog to AES ADAT Interface 24 Bit 192 kHz Digital Audio 24 Bit Interface Steady...

Страница 2: ...ADAT Optical 14 Inputs and Outputs 10 Analog Inputs Outputs 10 1 Mic Line In 16 10 2 Line Out 17 11 Digital Outputs 11 1 AES EBU 18 11 2 ADAT Optical 19 12 Word Clock 12 1 Technical Description and Ba...

Страница 3: ...ture and water from entering the device Never leave a pot with liquid on top of the device Do not use this product near water i e swimming pool bathtub or wet basement Danger of condensation inside do...

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Страница 6: ...2 Package Contents Please check that your OctaMic II package contains each of the following OctaMic II Power cord Manual 1 optical cable TOSLINK 2 m 3 Brief Description and Characteristics 8 balanced...

Страница 7: ...O25MXLR4M4F1PRO Digital Breakout Cable Pro AES EBU 25 pin D sub to 4 x XLR male 4 x XLR female 1m BO25MXLR4M4F3PRO Digital Breakout Cable Pro AES EBU 25 pin D sub to 4 x XLR male 4 x XLR female 3 m BO...

Страница 8: ...business drawn up by Audio AG apply at all times 6 Appendix RME news and further information can be found on our website http www rme audio com Distributor Audio AG Am Pfanderling 60 D 85778 Haimhaus...

Страница 9: ...er is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Conne...

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Страница 12: ...que is advantageous for the connected microphone as well as the OctaMic II The phantom power of the OctaMic II is short circuit proof With a maximum load on all eight chan nels the internal voltage do...

Страница 13: ...ES D sub or word clock BNC 2 Clock internal Master or external Slave 3 Internal Clock 44 1 kHz or 48 kHz 4 Activates Double Speed Mode 5 Activates Quad Speed Mode 6 AES output state Professional or Co...

Страница 14: ...ernal termination 75 Ohms The switch is found beside the BNC socket Use a small pencil or similar and carefully push the blue switch so that it snaps into its lock position Another push will release i...

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Страница 16: ...of con denser microphones The usage of a hi end integrated circuit That 1510 guarantees out standing sound quality lowest THD and maximum Signal to Noise ratio in any gain setting The OctaMic II s ove...

Страница 17: ...g Reference Clip LED True Clip ADC Level Hi Gain 19 dBu 17 dBu 21 dBu 2 dBFS 4 dBu 13 dBu 11 dBu 15 dBu 2 dBFS 10 dBV 2 dBV 0 dBV 4 dBV 2 dBFS This also means that the CLIP LED lights up 4 dB before t...

Страница 18: ...itch 6 to Professional or Consumer If AES PRO is chosen the out put level is almost 5V If CON Consumer is chosen the output signal will have a channel status compatible to SPDIF and the output level w...

Страница 19: ...44 1 48 kHz Therefore the sample clock at the ADAT outputs is only half the frequency of the AES outputs As interesting as this is you don t need to think about it 96 kHz capable ADAT hardware like al...

Страница 20: ...rd clock is not only the great problem solver it also has some disadvantages The word clock is based on a fraction of the really needed clock For example SPDIF 44 1 kHz word clock a simple square wave...

Страница 21: ...he input only works from 2 8 Volts and above does not function correctly al ready after 3 meter cable length So it is not astonishing that because of the higher voltage word clock networks are in some...

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Страница 24: ...ut level XLR Gain 60 dB 40 dBu Maximum input level TRS Gain 6 dB 21 dBu Maximum input level TRS Gain 60 dB 33 dBu Line Out 1 8 Maximum output level 21 dBu Output 6 3 mm TRS stereo jack servo balanced...

Страница 25: ...ional according to AES3 1992 Amendment 4 Single Wire 4 x 2 channels 24 bit up to 192 kHz ADAT 2 x TOSLINK Standard 8 channels 24 bit up to 48 kHz S MUX 16 channels 24 bit 48 kHz equalling 8 channels 2...

Страница 26: ...cable please make sure that the connectors are clearly labelled with Tascam and Ya maha The cable can only be used when the Tascam side is connected to a Tascam connector and the Yamaha side is connec...

Страница 27: ...connections with no loss in level For this to work pins 3 and 1 GND have to be connected inside the XLR con nector TRS jacks analog input and output The stereo TRS jacks of the analog inputs and outp...

Страница 28: ...ta rate and hence twice the sample rate A stereo signal subsequently requires two AES EBU ports The Double Wire method is an industry standard today however it has a number of different names like Dua...

Страница 29: ...ork with double sample rate It was then possible to transmit two channels of 96 kHz data via one AES EBU port But Double Wire is still far from being dead On one hand there are still many devices whic...

Страница 30: ...principle because the audio information is stored in the same place in the data stream However there are blocks of additional information which are different for both standards In the table the meanin...

Страница 31: ...ange of 28 kHz up to 200 kHz SteadyClock has originally been de veloped to gain a stable and clean clock from the heavily jittery MADI data signal The embedded MADI clock suffers from about 80 ns jitt...

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