Superior sound-quality
The critical factor with any mixer is guaranteeing it sounds good; the Midas M32R LIVE Digital Mixing Console uses a host of features to ensure this is always the case. The constant high-frequency bandwidth circuitry assures superb stability, RF rejection and noise performance at any gain level, helping deliver its transparent and dynamically expressive sound.
The 5” main display visualises your sound and makes control remarkably easy. It includes a 100-band Real Time Analyser (RTA) with full bar and spectrograph views letting you quickly see how your filtering and mixing choices affect the sound. Rest assured knowing that regardless of settings, the pristine reproduction capabilities will keep the sound consistently flawless.
Iconic preamp
The microphone preamplifiers are the very same ones used in the Midas XL4 and HERITAGE 3000 consoles, which many consider to be the greatest analogue live mixers ever created. Good start. Its design eliminates any imbalances of gain-setting stages, improving the common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) and harmonic distortion to almost negligible levels.
When driven, however, the immaculate reproduction gives way to just the right combination of harmonics. An organic sound heard by millions and recorded on countless live albums gives this mixer a distinctive and iconic feel.
Extensive effects
A plethora of options to expand your sound. Integrated are 16 effects plugins giving you instant access to a myriad of effects combinations that would be ridiculously expensive to obtain in hardware-form. The Virtual FX rack features 8 true-stereo, studio-grade effects engines each assignable to any input, group or output mix bus.
Choose from high-end, completely re-imagined FX algorithms including a range of reverbs, delays, EQs, dynamics and much more. Finally, the M32R LIVE can now run 4 studio-quality stereo reverbs together with 8 channels of 31-band graphic EQ demonstrating just how powerful this mixer can be.
Specifications
Processing
- Input Processing Channels: 32 Input Channels, 8 Aux Channels, 8 FX Return Channels
- Output Processing Channels: 8/16
- 16 aux buses, 6 matrices, main LRC: 100
- Internal Effects Engines (True Stereo / Mono): 8/16
- Internal Show Automation (structured Cues / Snippets): 500 / 100
- Internal Total Recall Scenes (incl. Preamplifiers and Faders): 100
- Signal Processing: 40-Bit Floating Point
- A/D Conversion (8-channel, 96 kHz ready): 114 dB Dynamic Range (A-weighted*)
- D/A Conversion (stereo, 96 kHz ready): 120 dB Dynamic Range (A-weighted*)
- I/O Latency (Console Input to Output): 0.8 ms
- Network Latency (Stage Box In > Console > Stage Box Out): 1.1 ms
Connectors
- Midas PRO Series Microphone Preamplifier (XLR): 32
- Talkback Microphone Input (XLR): 1
- RCA Inputs / Outputs: 2
- XLR Outputs: 16
- Monitoring Outputs (XLR / ¼” TRS Balanced): 2
- Aux Inputs/Outputs (¼” TRS Balanced): 6
- Phones Output (¼” TRS): 2 (Stereo)
- Digital AES/EBU Output (XLR): 1
- AES50 Ports (Klark Teknik SuperMAC): 2
- Expansion Card Interface: 32 Channel Audio Input / Output
- ULTRANET P-16 Connector (No Power Supplied): 1
- MIDI Inputs / Outputs: 1
- USB Type A (Audio and Data Import / Export): 1
- USB Type B, rear panel, for remote control: 1
- Ethernet, RJ45, rear panel, for remote control: 1
Mic Input Characteristics
- Design: Midas PRO Series
- THD+N (0 dB gain, 0 dBu output): THD+N (+40 dB gain, 0 dBu to +20 dBu output): Input Impedance (Unbalanced / Balanced): 10 kΩ / 10 kΩ
- Non-Clip Maximum Input Level: +23 dBu
- Phantom Power (Switchable per Input): +48 V
- Equivalent Input Noise @ +45 dB gain: -125 dB (22 Hz-22 kHz, unweighted)
- CMRR @ Unity Gain (Typical): >70 dB
- CMRR @ 40 dB Gain (Typical): >90 dB
Input/Output Characteristics
- Frequency Response @ 48 kHz Sample Rate: 0 dB to -1 dB (20 Hz-20 kHz)
- Dynamic Range, Analogue In to Analogue Out: 106 dB (22 Hz-22 kHz, unweighted)
- A/D Dynamic Range, Output (Typical): 109 dB (22 Hz-22 kHz, unweighted)
- Crosstalk Rejection @ 1 kHz, Adjacent Channels: 100 dB
- Output level, XLR Connectors (Nominal / Maximum): +4 dBu / +21 dBu
- Output Impedance, XLR Connectors (Unbalanced / Balanced): 50 Ω / 50 Ω
- Input impedance, TRS Connectors (Unbalanced / Balanced): 20 kΩ / 40 kΩ
- Non-Clip Maximum Input Level, TRS Connectors: +21 dBu
- Output Level, TRS (Nominal / Maximum): +4 dBu / +21 dBu
- Output Impedance, TRS (Unbalanced / Balanced): 50 Ω / 50 Ω
- Phones Output Impedance / Maximum output Level: 40 Ω / +21 dBu (Stereo)
- Residual Noise Level, Out 1-16 XLR Connectors, Unity Gain: -85 dBu 22 Hz-22 kHz unweighted
- Residual Noise Level, Out 1-16 XLR Connectors, Muted: -88 dBu 22 Hz-22 kHz unweighted
- Residual Noise Level, TRS and s Monitor out XLR Connector: -83 dBu 22 Hz-22 kHz unweighted
Display
- Main Screen: 5″ TFT LCD, 800 x 480 Resolution, 262k Colours
- Channel LCD Screen: 128 x 64 LCD with RGB Colour Backlight
- Main Meter: 18 Segment (-45 dB to Clip)
Power
- Switch-Mode Power Supply: Auto-Ranging 100-240 VAC (50/60 Hz) ± 10
- Power Consumption: 70 W
Physical
- Standard Operating Temperature Range: 5°C – 40°C (41°F – 104°F)
- Dimensions: 478 x 617 x 208 mm (35.1 x 24.1 x 10.1″)
- Weight: 14.3 kg (31.5 lbs)
