Soundcraft Si Impact: digital console with powerful DSP for live events and studio

With features for live sound, such as ViSi iPad control and built-in stage box connectivity, The Soundcraft Si Impact digital mixer features a USB interface for easy multitrack playback and recording, directly from a DAW platform.

The new Si Impact digital mixer from Soundcraft, whose brand name it markets Earpro, It is designed to be as simple as an analog system, but it has improvements when it comes to workflow and a powerful DSP, factors that make it the ideal tool for live events and studio.

With 40 Tickets, Soundcraft Si Impact enables powerful digital mixing for live with ViSi iPad control and built-in stage cabinet connectivity, to expand the number of inputs and outputs. Plus the ideal features for direct sound, has a USB playback and recording interface 32 Tickets and 32 Outputs for easy multitrack recording and playback, directly from a DAW platform.

The faders, Fully motorized, come equipped with Soundcraft's FaderGlow lighting technology and LCD displays per channel, for visual feedback and ease of operation.

If Impact offers 32 mic/line inputs, 40 DSP input channels (32 mono and 4 Stereo Channels/Returns) and 31 Departure buses (with DSP process and graphic equalizer) with 20 subgroup auxiliary buses, and 4 Mono/stereo matrix buses.

It has 8 XLR/jack connectors for line and instrument inputs, while a parametric equalizer of 4 bands is available for every channel and every bus.
It also offers studio-quality effects and dynamics process, BSS, Lexicon and Dbx, company that, just like Soundcraft, belong to the Harman Group.

The Si Impact supports up to 8 VCA Master's Degrees and 8 Mute groups, more 26 Motorized and LR/Mono input faders (Fully motorized, with four customizable fader layers). The console has a color touch screen of 5 inches for easy access to show settings, to channel patching, to security effects and settings.

“The Si Impact is the first mixer in its class when it comes to combining analog workflow with digital flexibility. And, in addition, It provides the best sound quality among the equipment in its range, this being comparable to that of much larger and more expensive consoles. Thanks to the USB interface, it is valid both live and in the studio", comments Sean Karpowicz, Soundcraft product manager.