5u Crossfire - Stereo Preamp

Front Panel

• Inputs

  • All Neutrik Connectors, Fully Balanced

  • 2 x Stereo Line in

  • 2 x Stereo Phono in

  • 2 x Coax SPDIF in

  • 2 x Stereo FX Returns

  • Aux in

  • Mic in

• Outputs

  • 6 Way Stereo bandpass outs (can be summed to mono via Control Screen on rear panel)

  • Stereo full range output

  • 2 x Stereo FX Send outputs

• 5 kill switches

  • 6 way internal adjustable xover (Sub, kick, lo mids, coax lo, coax hi, tops)

    • Linkable to 5, 4, 3, 2 way

• Signal/ clip lights

  • Green: Healthy input level

  • Red: Clipping input

• Music Channel

  • 2 sends

    • These can be switched to send either full range, just the mid or high bands, or a combination of mid and high (essentially highpassing the send)

• 1 Aux Channel

  • Gain

  • 3 Band EQ

  • HPF 3 way switch (off, 150hz, 300hz)

  • 2 Sends

• 1 Mic Channel

  • High quality mic preamps

  • Gain

  • 3 Band EQ

  • HPF 3 way switch (off, 150hz, 300hz)

  • One knob limiter on each mic channel

  • 2 Sends

• 2 FX Returns

  • Gain

  • 2 Band EQ

  • HPF 3 way switch (off, 150hz, 300hz)

• Stereo width knob

  • Goes from full mono to full stereo

• 12 band graphic EQ

  • Switchable pre/ post xover via screen

• Filters

  • Resonant LPF with Frequency and Resonance control

  • Resonant HPF with Frequency and Resonance control

• Growl

  • Amount knob

    • This dictates the amount of growl effect imparted on the sub frequencies

  • Dry/ Wet knob

    • This allows the operator to run full growl or to tame it by running a drier signal to the output, allowing for extra control and different ways of playing. For instance, one could run the amount of growl on full but only feed a little signal to the output. Conversely, one could decide to run full wet but only allow a small amount of growl

  • Hard/ Soft select

Control Screen

• Audio

  • Per bandpass:

    • Limiters

      • Threshold

      • RMS/ Peak setting

    • 3 Band Parametric EQ

    • Polarity per bandpass

    • Delay (for time alignment of boxes)

    • Bandpass crossover frequency adjustment

    • Output gain

  • Music channel

    • Music input gain control

  • Aux channels

    • Aux input gain control

  • Mic channel Limiter

    • RMS/ Peak setting

  • Full range output Gain

  • Mono bandpass section (allowing user to make any bandpass mono, for instance subs and kicks)

  • LED Adjustment

    • VU LED Colour

    • VU Operation

      • Peak Bar

      • Peak Dot

      • RMS Bar + Peak Dot