Architect's & Engineer's Specifications

The unit shall be a compact mixer with sixteen (16) mono, three (3) stereo line, two (2) digital stereo and one (1) Bluetooth input channels mixing to fourteen (14) mix outputs. The unit shall be rack-mountable with an optional available rackmount kit. The surface shall include nine (9) moving faders with five (5) layers, each layer having dedicated keys and indicators, giving access to input channels, output channel busses, and to DCA masters. The mixer shall have a physical control per function following the select button for the input and output channels allowing for fast access to all key processing parameters. All processing, routing and assignments of signals shall be accessed and adjusted via a 10 inch colour touchscreen provided on the mixing surface. Five (5) soft keys shall be provided for quick access to three (3) Mute Groups, FX Mute, and All Mute.  here shall also be five ()5 dedicated keys to change between Layer 1-8, 9-16, Stereo Inputs, DCA’s and Busses. Each channel shall provide dedicated soft keys for Select, Solo, and Mute. Twelve (12) dedicated push encoders, four (4) on the left and eight (8) below the 10 inch touchscreen shall provide quick and easy access to all paramaters displayed on the screen. All output mix channels shall contain the following processing: Polarity, Parametric EQ, Compressor, and Delay. There shall be two (2) EFX engines, four (4) DCA groups and three (3) Mute groups. Two (2) independent effect engines shall be provided with a library of factory preset FX emulations. 12-LED bar meters on the surface shall indicate the two (2) Main mix buss levels, the Solo signal shall override the LR meters accompanied by a Solo active indicator. A quarter-inch jack socket for Solo headphones output shall be provided, with an analogue output level control. The mixer shall include stereo recording/playback to optional USB hard drives. The format shall be 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz WAV. The mixer shall play back stereo WAV and MP3 files at 44.1 or 48 kHz and shall have a USB Type-A connector on the surface for recording, playback, data-transfer, archiving, and firmware updates to USB drive. On the rear panel there shall be a Type-B USB connection following the USB 1.1 standard for multi-channel, bi-directional audio streaming of 2 out / 2 in between the mixer and a sound card. The mixer shall provide a wireless router (access point) for live mixing control. The mixing system shall include control via any HTML5 enabled wireless touchscreen device connected via the internal wireless network router and allow control of all functions including the preamp gain, polarity, and phantom power. Input and output channel processing and parameters in the mixer shall be saved on demand as a user library item for recall in other channels. Individual processing sections shall be saveable on demand as user library items for that type.  Library items shall be transferrable to USB drive as portable data to be used in other systems. An option shall be provided for password protection for log-in of several users with different levels of system access and permissions. The mixing control surface shall have an external power supply accepting AC mains voltages of 100~240 VAC, 47~63 Hz, 65W max via an earthed 3-pin IEC male connector.  The external power supply shall be connected to a lockable 3-pin connector mounted on the rear chassis. Recommended operating temperature for the mixer shall be -20 to 55 degrees Celsius. The overall system dimensions shall be no more than 6.5 inches (165 mm) high by 15 inches (381 mm) wide by 19.5 inches (495 mm) deep. Total system weight shall be no more than 16 pounds (7.26 kg). The compact mixer shall be the Peavey AUREUS 28 Digital Mixer or approved equivalent.