AURATUS at 125th AES Convention:
Supreme functionality for Broadcasters
San Francisco, October 2008: Introduced in 2007 the AURATUS
represents state-of-the-art audio technology by German manufacturer STAGETEC
(a branch of SALBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP professional audio consortium) in
an extremely compact and responsive mixing console designed for TV and radio
broadcast studios and O.B. trucks. The AURATUS features superior sound quality
and supreme functionality together with unrivalled user friendliness, making
everyday production work easier than ever before. Current installations of AURATUS
comprise major broadcasters such as Europe’s largest broadcasting house
WDR (Germany), Chinese governmental broadcaster CCTV or France’s leading
private radio RTL (Paris, France).
The AURATUS is available as standard version with up to 54 input channels
and as XL version with up to 140 input channels, both with a hardwired bus layout
featuring eight sums, eight aux paths and eight n-1 sums. Both versions support
surround up to 5.1. Control surface construction is completely modular, based
on an 8-channel grid, yet the surface layout can be chosen freely from 8 to 40
channel strips plus a master section. Audio processing is performed using high-end
40-bit floating point DSP modules and TrueMatch converters by STAGETEC. Extensive
logic and control functions allow for control of external functions such as red
lights, cueing and communications.
Great effort has been invested to make broadcast studio operation with AURATUS
simple and convenient. A broad range of functions specifically designed for broadcast
environments is included, such as extensive monitoring features with mix-minus
buses, two timers capable of counting down as well as up, and supreme audio-follows-video
functionality. The precision TFT meter bridge is complemented by small TFT displays
in the master section and so-called OLED (Organic-LED) displays located above
the faders on the channel strip. These show the names of the channel’s
source and the background-layer channel and are capable of imparting information
in all the worlds’ major languages.
SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP Inc.
1100 South Tower
225 Peachtree Street N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
Tel/Fax: +1 888-782-4391
usa@stagetec.com
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