Soundcraft Si Performer 1: compact digital mixer for medium-sized audio installations

With two free slots to connect ViSiconnect expansion cards, the new compact digital mixer Si Performer 1 of Soundcraft, whose systems distributes in Spain Earpro, can be mounted in a standard 19" rack for medium-sized installations.

This new model of the Si Performer series of digital mixers, What Soundcraft presented a few months ago and available in the Iberian market through Earpro, It has two slots to connect ViSiconnect expansion cards and has the possibility to assign up to 56 input channels to your 14 Faders, in 4 Layers.

Yes Performer 1 incorporates the patented FaderGlow technology and color displays in each channel to have instant information of the mixture. One of its novelties is the DMX control interface, that allows you to manage sound and lights from the same console.

These two external card slots provide greater flexibility, as users can connect stage boxes, while providing the ability to connect to audio networks such as Dante, BLU Link and Cobranet, as well as its use with personal monitoring systems, as DBx PMC Personal Monitor Controller, via BLU Link.

This compact digital mixer retains the same mixing potential as Si Performer models 2 and 3, with the difference that it has 16 Micro preamps and 16 Faders. Among other features, The system has four-band parametric equalizer on all input channels and, as usual in Soundcraft digital mixers, BSS graphic equalizers on all output buses.

All these digital process blocks, that occupy a tiny size, would be equivalent to 448 Analog processor rack units. Unlike other digital consoles in the same price range, This process capacity is one hundred percent available at all times.

In addition, Si Performer series features Soundcraft's Faderglow technology, that illuminates the faders with different colors to indicate their function or to identify the channels. The Si Performer model 1 it also has eight VCA groups and the same number of muteto facilitate the control of the up to 80 entries and 35 buses.

Each channel has a color LCD display on its surface to display information, as the name of the channel, Assignments, the frequencies of the graphic equalizer and DMX data, in addition to level measurement. DMX512 port integration offers lighting control, ideal for audio and lighting applications with a single technician at the controls.

The Si Performer model 1 is presented as the ideal option for those users who wish to incorporate the advantages of Soundcraft digital mixers to medium format sounds, as concert halls, theatres and rental companies.

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