NOW! 12-13 - Telos
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AXIA | CONSOLES<br />
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MEET RAQ AND DESQ<br />
SPECIALIZED CONSOLES FOR SPECIALIZED PROJECTS<br />
Sometimes, you don’t need a big console, with all of its bells and whistles. What you want is something<br />
you can tuck into a rack, or place on a countertop without taking too much space. A mixer<br />
whose small footprint belies its big capabilities.<br />
Sure, you could rummage around in the closet for an old mixer, and you’d probably ind one, complete<br />
with peeling blue paint and held together with packing tape and rubber bands. “C’mon, it’s 20<strong>12</strong>,” you<br />
think. “Do I really want my talent creating programming with something that needs a battery to make<br />
its meter bounce?”<br />
Introducing RAQ and DESQ, two new special-purpose IP consoles from Axia. These slim units it neatly<br />
on the corner of a desk, or in a 4RU rack space; anywhere you need a little bit of mixer. Compact,<br />
yes, but don’t let that fool you — they’re packed with IP-Audio goodness. Which means they easily<br />
out-class and out-perform mixers that take up a lot more room.<br />
RAQ<br />
THE RACK-MOUNT MIXER FROM AXIA<br />
MILOS NEMCIK, AXIA PRODUCT SPECIALIST<br />
RAQ is a six-channel mixer over-engineered the Axia way, with super-duty rotary faders, aluminum<br />
front-panel, high-resolution OLED displays for channel assignment and metering, heavy-duty<br />
switches with LED lighting, and four Show Proile snapshot locations you can use to store and<br />
instantly recall favorite console conigurations. One touch, and presto! Your favorite sources are<br />
loaded, monitor source conigured, and bus assignments made. RAQ has two stereo mixing buses,<br />
plus a Preview (cue) bus, which makes it the perfect rack-mount utility mixer.<br />
(By the way: If the design of RAQ looks pleasingly familiar, take a peek at the photo on the bottom<br />
of Page 25. That PR&E Stereomixer was also designed by our own Michael "Catish" Dosch, about 25<br />
years ago! Just goes to show that you can't keep a great idea down.)<br />
"Remember those old, boxy boards that used to be in every<br />
radio studio? They were about as eficient to use as a Diesel<br />
locomotive (and nearly as big). RAQ and DESQ, our newest<br />
Axia consoles, do more than those old clunkers ever<br />
would, and use a lot less space to do it. Smart, eficient,<br />
elegant...just the way it should be."
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