Avid VENUE S6L User Manual

VENUE | S6L

The next stage in live sound

VENUE | S6L

The next stage in live sound

found a captive audience, with engineers raving about its sound quality,

Pro Tools

VENUE established Avid

as a leader in the digital live

sound console market when D-Show

was first introduced over 10 years ago with a

host of revolutionary technologies and features, including

onboard plug-ins and Virtual Soundcheck. The system quickly

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integration, ease of use, and reliability. As subsequent systems were

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introduced and word of mouth spread, VENUE quickly became one of the best selling, most trusted, and

most requested live mixing systems for concert touring, festivals, and installations around the world.

And now the legacy continues with VENUE | S6L, a modular and truly versatile system designed

to help you take on any type of live production with ease. Offering unprecedented processing

capabilities—with support for over 300 channels—S6L delivers unrelenting performance and

reliability through its advanced engine design and backs it up with modern touchscreen

workflows and scalability to meet any challenge. It also provides onboard plug-ins

and Pro Tools integration, with higher track counts than ever before. Plus, with a

comprehensive array of network and I/O offerings, you can easily configure the

system to meet any challenge.

For questions and additional info, get in touch with us at

www.avid.com/S6L.

Take deep, intelligent control of your mix

The VENUE | S6L control surface is designed for modern live sound workflows, putting extensive control at your fingertips to deliver fast

access to any part of your mix. Get unmatched visual feedback and information through high-resolution OLED displays and meters that are

visible in even the brightest outdoor conditions. And with interactive touchscreens, you can view comprehensive metering, select and adjust

parameters, and do more right from the surface, with instant access to every input, aux, group, VCA, and more through the Universe screen.

Experience the most powerful processing engine in the industry

From Broadway to broadcast, live productions are more complex than ever, requiring hundreds of channels. With the

groundbreaking VENUE | E6L engine, which outperforms the competition hands down, you have two powerhouse technologies

working in concert together. The real-time processing engine handles all routing, channel, and mixing functions for maximum

stability and power, while the HDX-powered DSP engine manages all AAX plug-in processing, enabling you to create bigger,

better sounding mixes with ease.

Achieve pristine sound through high-performance I/O

The VENUE | Stage 64 rack features a high-performance preamp design that delivers pristine audio fidelity, so you

get the best possible sound quality throughout the signal path, with incredible clarity, warmth, and presence. And

you can scale your system with as little or as much I/O as you need by adding multiple stage boxes to your

setup, with up to 64 inputs and 32 outputs per Stage 64 rack.

Get more creative with expanded plug-in processing

Acclaimed
heritage,
engineered for
the future

VENUE | S6L

Re-create the exact same sounds of studio recordings live. Thanks to dedicated HDX-powered DSPs

handling all plug-in processing, you can use an unprecedented number of plug-ins to fine-tune and

finesse every channel to get the exact sounds you want. S6L directly supports 64-bit AAX DSP

plug-ins and comes equipped with a full complement of some of the most coveted plug-ins in

the industry, giving you far more creative choices than other live mixing systems.

Configure your ideal system

With its modular, scalable system architecture, you can freely mix and match your choice

of control surface, engine, and I/O to support practically any live sound application.

Choose from three S6L control surface configurations to meet your needs. Select

the ideal E6L engine to support your channel count requirements. And go from

one Stage 64 rack with up to 64 mic inputs, up to hundreds of I/O channels by

connecting additional stage racks.