To view our full range of desk click hereWe have now taken delivery of our second SD8, the new flagship desk from DiGiCo, which will be added to our existing line of D5T's.This desk was used on this year's tour of Quadrophenia starting at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.DiGiCo SD8:
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60 Channels mono or stereo
(Equivalent to 120 channels of DSP) -
24 Busses mono or stereo + Master +12 Matrix and Dual Solo Busses
(Equivalent to 66 Busses of DSP) - Large 15" touch screen for fast control
- Remote Stage Rack + local I/O
- 12 x 12 Output Matrix
- Snapshot control with relative update & offline facility
- On board effects and Graphic Eq's
- Script/Laptop tray & second MADI I/O for open platform recording
- 37 touch sensitive faders for instant control with Full Size Metering
The SD8 has a fixed architecture powered by Stealth Digital Processing™ and employs a smaller Super FPGA than the SD7, yet it benefits from all the major features and versatility of the acclaimed DiGiCo D Series, plus the advances already made in the SD7. This gives a superlative performance to price ratio, allowing DiGiCo to offer an entry-level console, with remote pre amps, at a price point that has never been possible before. WorksurfaceThe same attention to detail and ease of use has been applied to the SD8, as to every other console in DiGiCo’s portfolio. Thus, the SD8’s control surface has 37 motorised faders, dedicated and multi-function control knobs and electronic labelling. It also has a 15”, super high resolution, touch sensitive TFT LCD backlit display.
The SD8 has 24 main channel faders and 12 assignable aux and touch sensitive master faders. Each bank of 12 faders can be instantly assigned as channels or masters, allowing all 36 main faders to control inputs if desired, while any bank of 12 can be assigned to the touch screen for fine-tuning.EngineThe SD8 provides, as standard, a 12 x 12 output matrix (its 12 busses being additional to the console’s 24 stereo solo and master busses), 60 mono or stereo channels – the equivalent of 120 channels of full DSP processing - and the combined power of the SD8’s technologies means that the number and quality of effects, dynamics or other functions is available to all channels simultaneously, no matter how the console is set up.
The SD8 supplies engineers with a wealth of features, some of which, such as snapshots and the ability to record directly from the remote mic pre amps, will be familiar to D Series users. The high resolution, 20-LED bargraph meters, right beside each channel fader are a new feature.
Familiar or not, one thing that is certain is that the only feature the SD8 lacks is a big price tag. In fact, it comes in at a considerably lower cost than anything else in the DiGiCo range - or any comparative console for that matter - but still provides much, much more than its nearest rival.I/OThe SD8 has integral I/O within the worksurface, which are:-
- 8 Mic/Line Inputs
- 8 Line Outputs
- 8 AES/EBU (mono inputs and outputs)
The standard SD8 system is supplied with a MADI Rack and 100m of BNC cablesMaDiRack8U 19”rack mount and houses 48 fixed Mic/Line Inputs and 8 Outputs. This can be increased up to 24 Outputs.