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Convention Paper

8-Channel Digital Audio Mixer for Digital Mastering and Recording

Authors: Yamauchi, Hiroyuki; Takahashi, Hiroshi; Hayashi, Yoshinobu; Konishi, Tetsuya; Usui, Yoshinobu; Tanaka, Masao

AES Convention 76 · Paper 2173 · October 1984

Abstract

Authors have designed and developed an 8 channel digital audio mixer for digital mastering and recording. It consists of 4 units: 1) Signal processing unit, 2) Remote control unit, 3) 8-ch A/D unit, 4) 8-ch D/A unit. The Signal processing unit has low cut and high cut filters +4-band equalizer + emphasis/deemphasis equalizer for each channel and has two program outputs and two aux outputs. To maintain high quality signal resolution, the filter and equalizer section consists of 6 fourth-order digital filters whose coefficient word length is 24-bit and signal word length is 38-bit. The Remote control unit has the same appearance as that of analog mixer, enabling the fast and easy operation. Its communication line with the signal processing unit is IEEE-488 bus. The 8-ch A/D unit and 8-ch D/A unit are separate from each other and from the Signal processing unit in order to be able to set the A/D unit or D/A unit near analog sound sources or speakers etc., thus avoiding a long transmition of analog signals which may cause signal deterioration.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 76
AES Convention
76
Paper number
2173
Publication date
October 6, 1984
Session subject
Digital Audio Recording
Affiliation
Sony Corporation, Kanagawa-ken, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper