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Sonic Studio Model 305 FireWire Interface ::

$5,995.00*

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The Model 305 provides all the goodness of the Model 304 plus eight transformerless microphone preamplifiers with phantom power. When coupled with soundBlade or your favorite Mac DAW, this gives you a complete, 8 channel location recording package that’s equally at home performing post production duties in your studio.

As a custom build, we can fit a Model 305 with Jensen transformers, to interface with your vintage microphones or to provide the special sound that only inductors can provide.

Model 305 Mic Pre Specs:

Gain Range with Trim; -14 dB to +70 dB
Harmonc Distortion @ 1 kHz (+9 dBu in @ 6 dB Gain); 0.0005%
Intermodulation Distortion (1 kHz component, 19 kHz/20 kHz @ +8 dBu); -96 dBu
Equivalent Input Noise, 20 Hz–20 kHz Flat @ 72 dB Gain, 150 Ω Source; -130.5 dBu
Equivalent Input Noise, 20 Hz–20 kHz Flat @ 72 dB Gain, 0 Ω Source; -134.0 dBu
Frequency Response; 18 Hz–20 kHz ± 0.1 dB
Frequency Response; 3 Hz–100 kHz ± 3.0 dB
Crosstalk @ 1 kHz, trim link engaged; -107 dB

The Model 304 provides not only an intimate connection between soundBlade for improved fidelity and transparency, but also acts as a 8 channel best of breed interface for all of your Core Audio production needs.

Feature List

• 8 tranparent microphone preamplifiers, on DB25
• 8 balanced analog inputs, with trim, on DB25
• 8 AES/EBU inputs, on DB25
• 8 balanced analog outputs on DB25
• 8 AES/EBU outputs, on DB25
• High quality headphone output, 1⁄4” TRS
• 24 bit A/D converters, 116 dB dynamic range unweighted, 120 dB A–weighted
• 24 bit D/A converters, 120 dB dynamic range
• Supports 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 & 192 kHz sampling rates
• Simultaneous, bidirectional I/O on all ports
• Low jitter Word Clock I/O, 1x or 256x “SuperClock” on BNC
• SMPTE/EBU LTC I/O
• 16 simultaneous inputs, 18 simultaneous outputs
• Dual FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394a) host connectors — mains powered
• Fully supports Core Audio for all Mac OS X applications
• Beefy DSP in hardware
• Sonic EQ included
• Light weight, 1U rackable
• Rack mount kit hardware included

Full Flexibility

Patching flexibility in both software and hardware provides comprehensive control of signal flow plus the ability to loop through external analog and digital gear.

Fantastic Fidelity

Extended precision signal pathways insure superior sonics for all your work, in keeping with Sonic Studio’s heritage.

Low Latency

Low latency monitoring and processing makes for easy location recordings and simple live gigs.

Clean Conversion

High quality conversion creates colorless capture of analog sources and transparent playback of digital material.

Consistent Clock

Low jitter clock circuitry provides pinpoint imaging, solid low end and means the Model 304 makes a high quality Clock Master for the rest of your studio.

Deep DSP

Quad embedded DSP on–board allows the host CPU to get on with other tasks. The embedded functionality provides all sorts of heavy lifting including;

• 80 bit Mixer
• Multichannel Recorder supports WAV, BWF, AIFF & CAF formats
• Patchbay/Router with mult'ing capability, complete any–to–any routing
• Plug–in host with extended precision processing, automatic phase compensation & mult'ing

Why buy a hardware accelerator when you can have an entire production environment in your rack? Enclosed Processing Modules include;

• Sonic EQ
• Encode/Decode Mid/Side Processor
• 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 & 6x6 Crosspoint Mix Matrixes
• 1 & 2 Channel Dynamics Processors
• 1 & 2 Channel, 6 & 12 Band Fully Parameteric EQs
• 1 & 2 Channel Dynamics Limiters
• 1 & 2 Channel EQ + Dynamics Processors with side chain
• TPDF & Hipass TPDF Redithering
• 2 Input Summing Node
• 2 Input Difference Node
• 2 Input Sum & Difference Node
• 2 Input Multiplier
• 1 & 2 Channel Delays
• Multitap Delays
• 1st Order Allpass Filter
• Allpass + Delay
• Variable Soft & Hard Limiters
• Slew Rate Limiters
• Distortion Generators
• 2 into 1 to 16 into 8 Linear & Tapered Crossfader/Switches
• Oscillators & LFOs
• Noise Generators
• Scale & Offset Transform
• Multimode Filter
• Pitch Shifter

Over 90 different DSP building blocks support the construction of complex custom signal paths, such as M/S compressors, de-essers and frequency–dependent phase shifters. Also, the embedded DSP significantly reduces the load on the host computer while providing exceptional fidelity, low latency and powerful processing.

Elegant EQ

Adding to all the signal processing modules listed above, the Model 304 includes a modern implementation of Sonic Studio’s legendary “Classic EQ”…MORE….

Sonic EQ

* US pricing. Pricing may be different in other regions.