Dynacord Powered Mixer User Manual
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The PowerMate
The Power and the Beauty !
The PowerMate has long been regarded as the epitome of a powered mixer, offering uncompromised professional quality in every department: professional
components, professional features, professional reliability. With well over 80,000 units already sold, the
PowerMate is one of the most important products in
the pro audio sector — not just the biggest selling but
undisputedly the best product of its kind on the market. It’s the Formula One of power mixers, so it’s hardly surprising that the PowerMate has won numerous
awards and come out on top in countless comparative
tests. But aside from its quality, it’s the fact that it
matches perfectly the needs of its users that makes
the PowerMate the outstanding solution for a wide
range of professional sound reinforcement applications. Now, after many extraordinarily successful
years, the PowerMate has undergone a metamorphosis from which it emerges, more powerful, more fullyfeatured, and more elegant than ever before: the
Power and the Beauty.
What makes a PowerMate a PowerMate?
All the function groups of the PowerMate are 100%
professional in terms of their design and specification.
First comes the mixing section, where you will find
high-quality, discrete microphone preamps, new, dust-
proof ALPS faders (specially developed for the
PowerMate) with very high attenuation even in the HF
range, 48V phantom power switchable to the channels
in groups of six and a dynamic range that would put
most dedicated professional mixers to shame. AUX
3+4 are separately switchable pre/post fader. Then
come the ultra-efficient Class H power amplifiers,
which now deliver 2 x 700 W into 4 Ohms (PM 1000
and 1600). They are equipped with dynamic limiters,
an extensive range of protections and the patented
LPN filter for clearly improved bass performance.
Finally in the effects section, the two digital effects
processors offer 99 studio quality presets each and
are individually foot-switchable.
On top of these, there are many other useful features
designed to solve special problems, such as the two
feedback filters, the vocal voicing filter and the standby switch.
This is a powered mixer that can also be used as a
pure mixer, with power amplifiers every bit as good as
dedicated 19” concert sound amplifiers, and studio
quality effects specially optimised for live performance.
Housed in a robust case with a sturdy metal lid, the
PowerMate is manufactured in Germany to the
highest standards. Nothing else sounds like it. Nothing
else performs like it. And nothing is as reliable.
The Power and the Beauty !
pro-mixing
The discrete microphone preamps
of the PowerMate 1000 and
PowerMate 1600 combine outstanding audio quality with extremely
low noise and distortion, setting
new standards in professional mixing technology. Ergonomically
designed gain controls with a range
of 60 dB, group-switchable phantom power, vocal voicing filters, 3band EQ with semiparametric mids,
four aux sends, PFL, Mute, dustproof ALPS faders, 2 x 7-band
graphic EQs, feedback filters and
four stereo channels are just some
of the other professional features.
pro-power
The integrated high-efficiency Class
H power amplifiers deliver an impressive 2 x 700 watts into 4 ohms
and an absolutely safe 2 x 870 watts
into 2.66 ohms with comparatively
little heat build-up. All the protective
circuits with which the Dynacord
19” amplfiers are equipped are
present here, including protections
against overheating, short-circuits
and DC voltage and HF and back
EMF protection. The flow of current
at power up is limited and there is a
short delay before power is
switched to the loudspeaker outputs. An LPN filter and a super-fast
dynamic audio limiter are further
Dynacord-typical features.
pro-effects
Two parallel and individually controlled 24-bit stereo digital effects
devices with 48-bit algorithms offer a
total of 2 x 99 live-optimised presets
in studio quality. User-friendly
Up/Down keys are used to select
between room reverb, plate reverb,
echo reverb, chorus reverb,
mono/stereo delay, modulated delay
effects (like chorus and flanger) and
a large number of other special
effects. Your preferred starting presets can be stored in program mode
so as to be instantly available next
time you switch on the device. The
effects returns can be switched into
or out of the signal path using either
one footswitch for both of the integrated effects devices or a separate
footswitch for each.
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