Phoenix Audio NICERIZER Junior Owner's Manual

PHOENIX AUDIO

Costa Mesa
CA 92626
USA

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The “NICERIZER Junior” Owner’s Manual

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

You are now the proud owner of a “Nicerizer Junior” 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 Junior” 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 Junior” 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 Junior”” 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 Junior” is a 2U, 19" rack mountable 16 channel Input unit,
which can be stacked and linked.

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 with detented control (16 x Pan pots).

• 16 x Balanced Inputs on D-sub. Can accept balanced or unbalanced input with no

-6dB loss, wired to Tascam DA88 Standard

• 4 x mix busses (Stereo Mix Bus).

• +8dB Boost button on each channel.

• 2 x Master mix bus output level control.

• Main Outputs on Balanced XLR's (4 outputs)

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

Headroom +26dB

Overview:

The Input signal is fed to the “Nicerizer Junior” via the D-sub inputs on the rear
panel. The input signal is panned by the associated pan control on the front
panel. The Nicerizer Junior is usually used in channel pairs Eg: 1- Left, 2 –Right.
The main bus output level is adjusted via the main level
control on the front panel.