PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2: Call The Sarge, This Is The Big One
PreSonus is out to shake up the prosumer, nay, the professional recording industry with the announcement of their new, flexible and powerful digital recording mixer: the StudioLive 16.4.2.
The StudioLive 16.4.2 takes all the powerful routing, patching, preset recall and DSP effects you'd expect from a pro-grade digital mixing board and pairs it with 22x8 firewire recording interface for a killer board designed for studio use and sophisticated live multitracking.
Each of the board's sixteen channels features XLR, 1/4, inserts and balanced direct out. Each channel is modled after the PreSonus "Fat Channel" design, touting 4-band EQ's, compressors, limiters and gates. The preamps are high-headroom XMAX class "A" for th same clarity found on the FireStudio and FirePod interfaces.
The effects compliment is powered by dual-DSP engines, and features wide range of reverbs, delays, and time-based effects with easy to use parameter adjustment, tap tempo, store, recall, and scene selection. All parameters for every channel can be recorded and recalled for easy preset "scene" switching -- great for mixing radically different setups through the same board with no downtime between.
For those who like their flashy-flashy, the StudioLive has no dearth of LED metering. You have instant information on the inputs levels of each channel, as well as detailed metering of gain reduction, limiting and effects parameters on the selected channel.
All this you'd expect to find in a digital mixing board. PreSonus ups the ante by then including a 22x18 firewire interface, turning the Studioive into a sophisticated studio mixer. StudioLive ships with PreSonus's CAPTURE recording software for instant functionality out of the box.
And now, for your edification, the specs:
- 16 inputs, 6 auxiliary mixes, 4 subgroups
- 16 class A XMAX microphone preamplifiers
- Hi-Definition analog to digital converters (118dB dynamic range)
- Unlimited headroom 32-bit floating point digital mixing and effects processing
- 22x18 FireWire digital recording interface
- Compact 19" rack-mountable rugged steel chassis
- Fat Channel Select:
- High Pass Filter
- Compressor
- Limiter
- Gate
- 4-band semi parametric EQ
- Pan
- Load/Save/Copy/Paste
- 2 Master DSP Effects (reverbs, delays, time-based effect, with load/save)
- Load/Save Mixer "Scenes" - all settings
- 100mm long throw faders
- Military grade quick touch push buttons
- Fast-acting LED meters
- Talkback communication system
- StudioLive multi-track recording software
Are the faders motorized???
Being able to recall the mix settings for a number of projects without always having to manually readjust the faders is important to me. All the current information on the faders reads that they are 100mm long throw, but nothing about them being motorized or not.
faders are not motorized
The faders on the Studiolive board are not motorized.
i think so
if I remember what I was told at NAMM, these should be. I think that's part of the "save/load" scenes feature.
Thanks!
I hope so. Even with its built-in firewire interface, this console already costs $1,500 less than Tascam's DM-3200 with the firewire expansion card added on.
Then again...
The Tascam DM-3200 has twice the number of channels, 16 busses, and many more over-all features. It's just a bit much though for my needs.
nope
no motorised faders . thats why shes at that price but if u check out the bloggs ull see that it has a nice wee way off tackeling this matter . i like it ! totally getting one !
when you recall a scene it
when you recall a scene it shows you on the meter where to set the fader.
love it
Its a kool board,, very easy to learn.. my only problem is i think they need to build a 32 channel.. they jus came out with a 24, an it seem a 32 was not considered.. but i would jump for this board if it was only in a 32. i love it still but just can`t handle walkin with two 16 channel every gig.
two 16 channel boards
You can join two 16 channel boards together with a mounting bracket that you can buy and it will act like a 32 channel board. I like the fact that at most shows I don't need 32 channels but when I do, I just throw the other 16 channel mixer in the trailer and with one firewire cable I have 32 channels.
totally diggin it
I bought mine a week ago and im loving it. Strictly for recording. No midi stuff...just straight up old school rock n roll with 2 marshall full stacks and 28" kick drums. The mic pre's are warm and the general layout of this thing is easy as pie. Mine came with Capture and Studio One Artist. i havent even used the studio one yet. The capture is really easy to work. Im upgrading from a korg d3200.
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