Fostex PD-6/DV40 manual 05F 43SF, Fully Featured on, Board Mixer

MEDIA

REVOLUTIONARY REMOVABLE MEDIA Location recorders need a removable media, it was one of the requests that we heard from the field again and again. Part of the success of the portable timecode DAT format was the fact that at the end of the shoot, the days work’s there in your hand. We knew that normal DVD-RAM drives, are not really built for the rigours of location recording and certainly not suited to being slung over a shoulder. Therefore we decided upon a brand-new 8cm DVD-RAM

drive. A drive specially developed for the rigours of portable use and a drive designed from the ground-up to provide vibration stability, high speed access and most importantly, high reliability.

Already proving itself in motion pictures, tv productions and outside broadcast, the removable 8cm DVD-RAM cartridges provide two 1.46GB sides, offering, for example, 108 minutes per disc of 4 track recording at 48KHz/16-bit. And the discs fit right into conventional DVD drives.

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minutes, seconds & frames ahead of the rest.

			Mic / Line							Mixer
	P48V							Block Diagram
				Mic Amp
	T12V		(Phase 2/4/6)
MIXER							To Rec
			Input		Gain
				HPF
FULLY FEATURED ON-							Limiter
BOARD MIXER	PFL
The six channel mixer accepts either						PRE
microphone level, with both T-Power							DISC FEED
(12V) and Phantom power (48V)				Level		POST
available, or line level. Phase reverse is
provided on the three even channels									Bus
				PAN
while each channel features adjustable
input gain; a generous defeatable and	L Bus
variable high pass filter and an
individual defeatable limiter, with	R Bus
software selectable characteristics and
linking, suited to location recording.
The most ingenious part of the mixer
however is the routing capability: working in conjunction
with each channel’s level control mounted on the face of		not only simple stereo mixing of all six channels, but also
the PD-6, the ‘Disc Feed’ switch allows the recording		by using a combination of the modes, parallel mix (guide)
section of the machine to derive its audio ‘feed’ PRE the		tracks can be made whilst recording of either five tracks
channel level control, meaning levels are set once with the		(mono guide track) or four tracks (stereo guide track). We
earlier trim pot, leaving the front level controls for bus		call these "1+5" and "2+4" recording modes as separate
mixing; POST of the channel level control providing for		BWF files are created. Additional features such as PFL
regular level adjustment on the easily-accessible controls;		monitoring and peak led indication on each channel
or from the Stereo Bus, routed by the PAN switch providing		complete this very flexible mixer.

re-record alpha numeric keypad flexible monitoring

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