Otari offers mixing console for video editors - Products - Brief Article

Post, August, 2003

CANOGA PARK, CA -- Otari Corporation's (www.otari.com) new DB-16P is a new digital mixing console designed specifically for video editing applications. While the unit can be used as a stand-alone mixer, it exhibits powerful capabilities when connected to a video editing system offering a serial port supporting the ESAM II (Editing Suite Audio Mixer) protocol, enabling it to be controlled from the video editor.

Comprehensive built-in AES/EBU digital audio inputs with a range of reference level settings are provided. The DB-16P can accept two four-channel VTRs, and a two-channel source can be switched between a digital input such as CD, MD and DAT, and mic or line level analog signals input via an optional 24-bit A/D conversion stage. A four-channel digital master recorder return is also provided.

The DB-16P can be synchronized from many sources, including word clock with a range of 32-to-96kHz, video sync (44.1kHz, 48kHz) and the console's own internal 48kHz sync. Connecting a video signal (at 25, 25.97 or 30 frames) allows the DB-16P's digital signal processors to sync to it.

Each of the input channels includes a three-band frequency-selectable equalizer and high-pass filter, a compressor and a channel fader with 0.1 dB resolution. Channel settings can be copied between channels.