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ELEMENT
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Building great consoles is more than punching holes in sheet
metal and stufing a few switches in them. Building a great
console takes time, brain-power and determination. That’s
why we’ve hired brilliant engineers who are certiied “OCD”:
Obsessive Console Designers, driven to create the most useful,
powerful, hardest-working consoles in the world. And that description
certainly its Axia’s modular Element 2.0 mixing console.
Scalable from 2 to 40 faders, Element is the ultra-reliable
dynamo at the center of over 3000 Axia-powered broadcast
studios around the world.
We launched Axia in 2003 to make digital mixing consoles —
but with a twist: Axia consoles would be integrated with the
routing switcher, and networked to share resources and capabilities
throughout the studio complex. This intelligent network
of studio devices gives your talent consoles that are more
powerful and easier to use than ever. Our team of engineers
blended the best ideas from old-school analog consoles with
innovative new technology to produce bullet-proof boards that
can actually make shows run smoother and sound better.
And we invented a way to network studios, consoles and audio
equipment using Ethernet. It’s called Livewire, and it’s now
an industry standard. Livewire carries hundreds of channels
of real-time, uncompressed audio plus synchronized control
logic and program-associated data on just one skinny CAT-6
cable. And, because Axia networks are intelligent Ethernet-
based routing systems, machine logic always follows source
audio. Simply load a source on any fader – in any studio – and
that fader’s controls are immediately communicating with the
source device. Thanks to this scalable network technology, integrated
router control is a standard feature of every Element.
Board-ops told us they wanted a powerful console that’s still
easy to use: user-friendly, but with all the power of a full-on
production board. Element is! Show Proiles can recall each operator’s
favorite settings with the push of a button — audio
sources, fader assignments, monitor settings and more. Each
jock’s Show Proile contains personalized mic processing and
voice EQ settings that load every time they’re on the air (so the
midday guy will stop badgering you for “just a little more low
end”). There’s even a “panic button”: one key-press returns a
Show Proile to its default state instantly.
Powerful? You bet. Element has 4 Program buses plus 4 Aux
sends and 2 Aux returns, and 16 5-channel “virtual mixer” that
lets you mix multiple audio streams using virtual faders. Every
voice channel has studio-grade compression, de-essing and
gating courtesy of the processing experts at Omnia, plus threeband
parametric EQ. There’s even built-in headphone processing
to save the cost of a separate side-chain.
More convenience: fully-automatic mix-minuses; one for each
fader if you need it. Mix-minus settings are saved for each
audio source, so that sources, backfeed and machine logic all