Phoenix Audio NICERIZER 16 mk2 Owner's Manual

PHOENIX AUDIO

Costa Mesa
CA 92626
USA

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The “NICERIZER 16 mk2” Owner’s Manual

Firstly, let us congratulate you on your purchase of the “Nicerizer 16 mk2”. We
know you will be as pleased with its sonic qualities as we are.

You are now the proud owner of a “Nicerizer 16 mk2” that has the advantages of
more than 25 years experience in audio engineering, today’s component and
manufacturing technology, but still retaining “that sound” uniquely achievable
through Class A design.

As you can tell, Phoenix Audio is dedicated to the development of Class A
discrete technology used within high build-quality equipment.

The “Nicerizer 16 mk2” was originally conceived because of the demand from
customers for something that would "sweeten" the output from Digital Audio
Workstations, and to make the final mix easier to distribute and handle.

The “Nicerizer 16 mk2” is designed to take the output out of the digital realm, and
to add the Class A characteristics and feel before the final recording.

The ““Nicerizer 16 mk2”” uses our well proven and loved Class A output stage
(DSOP-2), but also has our latest breakthrough in transformer-less Class A,
Discrete Input Technology which gives a "valve-like" sound, and our Class A,
Discrete, Virtual Earth mixing stage, and Unique Class A Discrete Stereo Width
mixing stage.

You CAN hear the difference!!!

The “Nicerizer 16 mk2” is a 2U, 19" rack mountable 16 channel Input unit,
which can be stacked and linked up to 6 units.

Applications: Range from "digital sweetening" to source routing, to DAW
mixing and from studio to stadium.

Specifications:

• 16 channels of our Class A, discrete, truly balanced transformer-less input

• stage.

• Our proven and loved Class A, discrete, transformer balanced output stage

(DSOP-2).

• Class A, Discrete, High Gain, Inverting (Virtual Earth) Mixing stage.

• Individual pan control for each channel (16 x Pan pots).

• 16 x Balanced Input XLR's. Can accept balanced or unbalanced input with no -

6dB loss.

• 2 x mix busses (Stereo Mix Bus).

• ¼” TRS Inserts on Busses (L + R Bus Insert points).

• +8dB Boost button on each channel.

• Master mix bus output level control.

• Stereo LED level monitoring. Switchable for each channel and Main Output.

• Stereo/mono External/Headphone monitoring Output. Switchable to each channel,

external input (via 2T Return), Auxiliary and Main output, includes monitoring of
the mix bus. (L, R, and Stereo).

• Main Outputs on Balanced XLR's

• Auxiliary Outputs on ¼” TRS Jacks.

• 2T Return inputs on ¼” TRS Jacks.

• Class A Stereo Width control with Loss-less Bass. Pan-able from mono through

to +25% Wider + Width control Bypass switch.

• Huge headroom available on all channels. Input Headroom +26dB. Output

Headroom +26dB

Overview:

The Input signal is fed to the “Nicerizer 16 mk2” via the Input XLR’s on the rear
panel. The input signal is panned by the associated pan control on the front
panel and can be monitored by selecting the associated channel on the Monitor
control on the front panel. Monitoring can be achieved via the Front ¼” jack, and
rear connections, and visually by the LED metering on the front panel.

The Nicerizer 16 mk2 is usually used in channel pairs Eg: 1- Left, 2 –Right.
All channels can be monitored individual, and the L bus and R bus can also be
monitored individually. The main bus output level is adjusted via the main
levelcontrol on the front panel.