8u Crossfire - Stereo Preamp

Front Panel

• Inputs

  • All Neutrik Connectors, Fully Balanced

  • 2 x Stereo Line in

  • 2 x Stereo Phono in

  • SPDIF in

  • 2 x Stereo FX Returns

  • 2 x Aux in

  • 2 x Mic/ Line in

• Outputs

  • 6 Way Stereo bandpass outs (can be summed to mono via Control Screen on rear panel)

  • Stereo full range output

  • 2 x Stereo FX Send outputs

• 5 kill switches

  • 6 way internal adjustable xover (Sub, kick, lo mids, coax lo, coax hi, tops)

    • Linkable to 5, 4, 3, 2 way

• Signal/ clip input lights

  • Green: Healthy input level

  • Red: Clipping input

• Music Channel

  • 2 sends

    • These can be switched to send either full range, just the mid or high bands, or a combination of mid and high (essentially high-passing the send)

• 2 Aux Channels

  • Gain

  • 3 Band EQ

  • HPF 3 way switch (off, 150hz, 300hz)

  • 2 Sends

• 2 Mic Channels

  • High quality mic preamps

  • Gain

  • 3 Band EQ

  • HPF 3 way switch (off, 150hz, 300hz)

  • One knob limiter on each mic channel

  • 2 Sends

• 2 FX Returns

  • Gain

  • 3 Band EQ

  • HPF 3 way switch (off, 150hz, 300hz)

  • 2 Sends

• Stereo width knob

  • Goes from full mono to full stereo

• 12 band graphic EQ

• 4 band bass graphic

  • This EQ is only applied on the Sub output, giving more control over your scoops or bass boxes

  • HPF knob - This allows you to drop the subs in and then manually adjust the HPF frequency to drop the bass extra deep when needed or to free up valuable power eaten by, sometimes unnecessary, low sub frequencies, depending on material being played.

• Filters

  • Resonant LPF with Frequency and Resonance control

  • Resonant HPF with Frequency and Resonance control

• Growl

  • Amount knob

    • This dictates the amount of growl effect imparted on the sub frequencies

  • Dry/ Wet knob

    • This allows the operator to run full growl or to tame it by running a drier signal to the output, allowing for extra control and different ways of playing. For instance, one could run the amount of growl on full but only feed a little signal to the output. Alternatively, one could decide to run full wet but only allow a small amount of growl

  • Hard/ Soft select

Control Screen

• Audio

  • Per bandpass:

    • Limiters

      • Threshold

      • RMS/ Peak setting

    • 3 Band Parametric EQ

    • Polarity per bandpass

    • Delay (for time alignment of boxes)

    • Bandpass crossover frequency adjustment

    • Output gain

  • Music channel

    • Music input gain control

  • Aux channels

    • Aux input gain control

  • Mic channel Limiter

    • RMS/ Peak setting

  • Full range output Gain

  • Mono bandpass section (allowing user to make any bandpass mono, for instance subs and kicks)

  • LED Adjustment

    • VU LED Colour

    • VU Operation

      • Peak Bar

      • Peak Dot

      • RMS Bar + Peak Dot