AirTools 6000 Speci?cations

24-bit digital delay unit for live or syndicated
broadcast that prevents unwanted profanity

or comments from reaching the airwaves.

Keep your air clean and seamless.

Engineered by Symetrix, the AirTools 6000 offers advanced

delay technology with up to 40 seconds of user-defi nable

delay at a full 20 kHz range of stereo bandwidth. When it

comes to advanced broadcast audio delay, the AirTools

6000 offers more of the features you need at a better price.

Easily Get Rid of Unwanted Comments.

When you want to edit a comment, simply push a button.
The AirTools 6000 goes to work and your broadcast hits
the air minus the offending content.

The AirTools 6000 also includes standard features like an
Automation Control Interface and ESE TC89 time code
input and output to allow for both real and delay time

displays.

Here’s how it works:

• Connect the main programming output from any studio

console.

• When the show begins, press START. The AirTools 6000

begins digitally stretching the program creating up to 40

seconds of delay.

• You can defi ne a delay between 1 and 40 seconds,

allowing a great amount of fl exibility when it comes to editing

unwanted material.

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Superb sound quality

Automation control interface

Full 20 kHz bandwidth, perfect for music and speech

ESE TC89 time code input and output for display of ‘time in delay’

Choice of splicing algorithm to fi t program style

Up to 40 seconds of delay

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100-250VAC
50-60Hz
AC INPUT
15 WATTS
MAXIMUM

• If a guest makes an unwanted comment, or you want to

delete content, press DUMP and keep going. The unwanted
material, up to the last 40 seconds of your broadcast,
disappears while the show goes on.

• Another way to get rid of unwanted content is with COUGH.

In the middle of a broadcast, you may need to say something
“off air” to your guests, for example, or have a quick drink of
water. Press COUGH to edit out unwanted airtime, and then
release it when you’re fi nished. The broadcast picks up again.

• If you are a network syndicator, the 6000’s Automation

Control Interface offers the ability to trigger automation
changes or control a router with ‘delayed’ contact closures.
Four TTL logic inputs on the 6000 digitally tag the audio on
input and close the corresponding relay when the tagged
delayed audio reaches the 6000’s output. It takes all of the
mathematical guesswork out of local breaks and switchovers.

• At the end of your program press EXIT and the 6000

gradually leaves the delay mode until you are in real time.

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AM and FM

All music formats

News and talk radio

Call-in shows and guest oriented broadcasts

Sports radio and live sports broadcasts

Live or unknown taped content

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Input/Output

Inputs stereo, balanced bridging
Outputs stereo, electronically balanced
Input Connectors XLR, BNC (ESE time code)
Output Connectors XLR, BNC (ESE Time Code)
Polarity Pin 2 high
Maximum Input Level +28 dBu

Input Common Mode Rejection >40 dB @ 1 kHz

Performance Data

Frequency Response 20 Hz to 20 kHz *, +/- 1 dB @ +4 dBu

output

Harmonic Distortion less than 0.01% with +4 dBu input,

+4 dBu output, 40 second delay and

a 1 kHz test signal.
Dynamic Range, A/D -110 dB (A-wieghted)
Dynamic Range, D/A -115 dB (A-wieghted)
A/D and D/A Conversion 24-bit sigma delta
Internal Sample Rate

Physical

Size (HWD) 1.72 in. x 19 in. x 8.2 inches

4.37 cm x 48.30 cm x 17.145 cm

Shipping Weight

8 lbs, 3.64 kg

Electrical

Power Requirements 100 - 240 VAC, 50 Hz to 60 Hz, 25 W

* A high pass fi lter is engaged during build and exit modes when using the gap detect

or gap detect+catchup algorithms. During build and exit modes when using either of
these algorithms, the frequency response will be down about -3 dB at 100 Hz.

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Symetrix

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