DiGiCo has introduced the new SD11, designed to be equally at home as a desktop console or mounted in a 19-inch rack. By removing the end cheeks and arm rest, the rack fixings are revealed and accessible.
The SD11 includes DiGiCo’s Stealth Digital Processing and the flexibility of a true FPGA-based digital audio console. Manufactured with a steel chassis for strength and a polycarbonate-overlaid aluminum work surface for reduced weight, the SD11 features 12 touch sensitive moving faders below a 15-inch touch sensitive screen.
Sixteen microphone pre amps, eight line outputs and two mono AES I/O are provided, in addition to which users have the option to connect a DiGiCo D-Rack to the CAT5E port. This provides a remote I/O rack frame with an additional 32 Microphone inputs and up to 16 outputs.
Further connections are a MADI port, GPI/O, MIDI, overview screen output, word clock I/O, an Ethernet port for console remote control/networking and a USB port for file exchange and session backup.
The SD11 features 32 input channels with full processing, eight of which can be configured as full Flexi Channels. All inputs have dual mono inputs for fast ‘Main’ and ‘Alt’ channel switching, which are ideal for corporate events where a large number of spare microphones may be required.
Standard input channel processing includes channel delay; single and multi channel presets; HPF and LPF, with an industry leading 24db per octave; four bands of parametric EQ with band curve selection; compressor and gate; moveable insert point and access to all busing.
Standard output channel processing includes output delay; four bands of parametric EQ; filtering; compressor and gate; moveable insert point; groups with bus to buss routing; and auxes that have direct talk to output with dim control for fast monitor communication.
Dynamic EQ provides both expansion and compression on all four bands of the parametric EQ. These processors can be assigned to any of the input or output channels, whether they are mono, stereo or LCR, and four units can be allocated as required.
Multi-band compressors are also installed, giving the user extended dynamic control of any input or output channel. Again, four units can be positioned on either input or output channels.
One of the more unusual features for a digital console with the SD11’s small footprint is that it has 12 Flexi buses, which can be user configured as either mono or stereo. In its maximum configuration these could be used as 12 stereo mixes – equal to a remarkable 24 buses.
