Behringer's WING is a 48-Channel, 28-Bus Full Stereo Digital Audio Mixing Console equipped with a 24-Fader Control Surface and 10" Touch Screen. Making it personal - With its large capacitive touchscreen interface including touch-sensitive rotary controls, this stunning mixing console brings forth a new operational ease. Three discrete fader sections along with a Custom Controls section are easily and intuitively tailored to meet your personal necessities. No matter whether you need a specific bus send fader right next to the corresponding channel fader, or a dedicated “money” channel that's always right at your fingertips, or even when sharing the surface with another engineer - this mixer allows you the configurability to elevate your production to a new level. Even the massive wooden armrest is replaceable and customizeable to something funkier if you'd like. Sources: a new perspective - So just what is the point of mixing in the first place? Looking over the signal path of audio production for live or studio applications, it appears that much of the terminology is still driven by historical technical implementation, rather than its actual purpose. Generally, consoles have been focused on input numbers assigned to channels and auxes. WING has been designed to offer a substantially different perspective by focusing on the Source as the reason for any mixing — say a bass drum signal or the lead vocal. Consequently, inputs are given more properties than just a number. Sources can be in mono, stereo or mid-side mode, as well as own headamp parameters like gain and phantom power, with specific source mute and metering. They can also be provided with a color, icon, name and choice of several tags for grouping and filtering purposes. All of this is referring to the actual Source first, before channels are used for processing or mixing. Automatic Mono/Stereo Configuration - All of the console's 48 input channels and 28 bus mixes can be used for mono, stereo or mid-side sources. Assigning a stereo source to any channel renders it automatically into a stereo channel, with its stereo imager stage providing control over width from 150% stereo down to mono. There's no need to reboot the console to apply any mode changes. Plus, their channel, bus and subgroup configuration can be changed at any time — on the fly. Built-in Legacy - Besides all the console's excellent onboard EQs and dynamics, all channels and buses include plug-ins for gates, compressors and equalizers, including high-end simulations modeled after the most famous hardware such as Pultec EQ, SSL Bus Compressor and Gate/Expander, SPL Transient Designer, Neve EQ, Compressor and Gate, Focusrite ISA and D3, DBX160, LA-2A, 1176, Elysia mPressor, and Empirical Labs Distressor.* *Note: *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Their use neither constitutes a claim of the trademark nor affiliation of the trademark owners with Music Tribe and Full Compass Systems. Product names are mentioned solely as a reference for compatibility, effects and/or components. Warranty details can be found by contacting your Sales Pro. Innovation is Evident - Its channel editing section is designed from the ground-up to provide immediate overview of channel status and operational flow. This enables the user to work on the selected channel processing even when the main display is being used for something entirely unrelated. Its touch-sensitive rotary controls allow the most relevant information to be displayed at your fingertips. First-rate Effects - The mixer's onboard Premium FX rack boasts 8 true-stereo processors including dazzling emulations of some of the industry's most esteemed reverbs, original TC VSS3 algorithms, as well as Lexicon, Quantec and EMT emulations. Fabulous delays, voice doubling, chromatic pitch correction, tape saturation, plus 4 iconic guitar amplifier models with cabinet simulations. Additionally, if push comes to shove, a guitarist can just DI his guitar or pedals straight into the stage box, which is especially useful on quiet stages and house of worship applications. Did someone say connectivity? With 374 ins along with 374 outs, there's a lot of digital connectivity that's needed. WING features 3 AES50 SuperMAC audio networking ports for connecting digital stageboxes or sharing up to 144 input and 144 output streams with other mixing consoles. There are 48x48 USB audio channels and another 64x64 optional Audio over IP channels (AoIP module optional - sold separately), plus AES/EBU stereo input/output (I/O). It has an expansion card slot, and ships with the WING-LIVE card installed which allows up to 64 channels of 48 kHz / 32-bit audio to be recorded onto a pair of SD or SDHC cards, as well as accommodate other various option cards covering various standards (additional cards sold separately) such as ADAT, MADI, DANTE, and WSG, which offers another 64x64 channels of audio I/O. In addition, the onboard Klark Teknik StageCONNECT interface enables transmission of 32 channels of 24-bit audio with sub-millisecond latency, together with control data and 18 W of power over a single standard XLR mic or DMX cable. Given its flexibility and ease of use, this may well become the future of XLR. StageCONNECT was developed for flexible connections on stage using standard mic cable, supporting a wide range of stage boxes and monitoring systems — all at sub-millisecond latency. |