There is a trend, in large scale production, broadcast and live sound mixing console design, away from a discrete channel architecture and towards an architecture that employs a central rack of core DSP with satellite racks of ADCs and DACs and a satellite remote control surface. These systems use a variety of digital bussing and networking protocols such as TDM, MADI, IP, Ethernet and several proprietary systems. This course introduces the learner to this new generation of audio mixer by describing several specific systems such as: Digidesign ICON, Calrec, Lawo and EuCon.
Various signal flow and configuration variations are discussed.
Variations are described. The application of these variations is discussed in the contexts of music recording, sound reinforcement and broadcasting applications.
The operation of specific models is discussed