A powerful, flexible and intuitive console, ASP8024 brings superb audio performance from one of the world's most experienced and successful console engineering teams. David Dearden and Gareth Davies, the founders of DDA, have pooled their combined experience of over fifty years to produce a console that provides sound quality and features normally associated with consoles with a higher price tag.
Far from a retrograde step, analogue mixing provides the clarity and quality demanded of the best ears in the business for both tracking and mixing stages and ASP8024's future-proof design ensures its continued compatibility and seamless integration with digital equipment.
Moreover, thanks to innovative design and construction processes, ASP8024 delivers exceptional audio quality and features at an unrivalled price.
Key features:
- Full-feature in-line architecture.
- 80 inputs in on 36 channel version.
- Full 24-track routing.
- Ergonomic control surface with clear status feedback.
- Extended range, splittable equalisers.
- 14 auxiliary busses.
- Unique modular construction for easy serviceability.
- Integral compressors on stereo bus.
- Selection for Main plus 3 alternate control room speakers.
- Comprehensive communications.
Looking through the specifications it quickly becomes obvious that nothing has been skimped at all: the inputs and outputs are all electronically balanced, insert points feature separate send and receive sockets, and the bandwidth, noise, distortion, crosstalk, and headroom figures are all exemplary!
Sound on Sound - March 2000