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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hours,

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

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