Avid Venue S6L: powerful live system with HDX card-based processing engine

Modular design to adapt to the show and tour environment, Avid offers in its new live system Venue S6L more than three hundred channels and a powerful processing engine, available in the Spanish market through Neotécnica.

Venue S6L, the new direct system of Avid to meet the highest sound demands on tours and shows, provides a processing capacity never seen before in this type of equipment of the manufacturer, with more than three hundred channels, that maintains the Venue series as a benchmark in this market segment.

After the appearance a few months ago of the S3L-X model, , Avid has decided to renew the range of large format systems, such as D-Show and Profile, with a powerful and high-performance system that incorporates a processing engine based on HDX cards with 32 floating-point bits and 64 floating-point bits in mix, available in the Spanish market through Neotechnics.

In addition, S6L supports Dante, madi, Thunderbolt and other emerging technologies to ensure compatibility with a wide variety of Avid and non-Avid products, so it can be easily connected in any new or existing installation.

Like all Venue systems, this new system incorporates industry-standard plug-ins and integration with Pro Tools, but with more tracks and processing power than ever before. In addition, you can use Waves Plugins in DSP format, since both companies have announced that the Soundgrid processing system will be integrated into the S6L.

Modular design to adapt to any installation, the professional can configure different systems with different combinations of control surface and processing unit (Engine). As for control surfaces, there are three versions: S6L-32D, with 32 faders and four touch screens; S6L-24D, with 24 faders and three touch screens, and S6L-24, with 24 faders and a touch display.

Two different models of the processing unit have also been developed.: E6L-192, with processing capacity 192 input channels and 96 mix buses + CSF, and the E6L-144, with the capacity to 144 input channels and 64 mix buses + CSF. Both incorporate local audio inputs and outputs, AVB Ethernet ports for connection to Stages, as well as free slots for DSP-HDX expansion cards.

Additional expansion cards can also be added to the E6L, as MADI-192 for bidirectional MADI over BNC connectors; BT-192 Thunderbolt, offering high-channel recording and playback from compatible Pro Tools systems, in addition to the aforementioned DSP HDX-192 expansion cards, that provide additional processing power to run AAX DSP plug-ins.

The third element of the system is Stage64, a fully modular stage rack with 64 entries and 32 Outputs, that incorporates AVB by copper and fiber as well as MADI output. An S6L system can have multiple Stage64 whose inputs and outputs can be shared with two or more, all of them with automatic gain control for ease, For example, FOH configurations, monitors and recording without having to go through expensive analog splitters.

It is also possible to add an optional DNT-192 Dante card, that offers 16 audio channels on this network, configurable as 16×0, 8×8 or 0×16; Supports 48/96/192 kHz and redundant network connections.

last, the fourth component of the system, Venue software offers a refreshed, more visible look that mixing engineers will feel very comfortable with. Venue show files can also be used, created with older S6L systems, which significantly minimizes installation time.

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