Avid Venue S6L: Powerful live performance system with HDX card-based processing engine

With modular design to fit the show and touring environment, Avid offers more than three hundred channels and a powerful processing engine in its new Venue S6L live system, available in the Spanish market through Neotécnica.

Venue S6L, The new live Avid to meet the highest sound demands on tours and shows, It provides a processing capacity never seen before in this type of equipment from the manufacturer, with more than three hundred channels, which maintains the Venue series as a benchmark in this market segment.

After the appearance a few months ago of the S3L-X model, , Avid has decided to renew the range of large format systems, such as D-Show and Profile, with a powerful, high-performance system that incorporates an HDX card-based processing engine with 32 floating-point bits and 64 Floating point bits in mix, available in the Spanish market through Neotechnics.

In addition, S6L supports Dante, MADI, Thunderbolt and other emerging technologies to ensure compatibility with a wide variety of Avid and non-Avid products, so it can be easily connected to any new or existing installation.

Like all Venue systems, This new system incorporates industry-standard plug-ins and integration with Pro Tools, but with more tracks and processing power than ever before. In addition, you can use Waves Plugins in DSP format, as both companies have announced that the Soundgrid processing system will be integrated into the S6L.

Modular design to fit any installation, The professional can configure different systems with different combinations of control surface and processing unit (Engine). In terms of control surfaces, There are three versions: S6L-32D, with 32 faders and four touchscreens; S6L-24D, with 24 faders and three touchscreens, and S6L-24, with 24 faders and a touch display.

Two different models of the processing unit have also been developed: E6L-192, with the capacity to process 192 input channels and 96 Mix Buses + CSF, and the E6L-144 model, with the capacity to 144 input channels and 64 Mix Buses + CSF. Both incorporate local audio inputs and outputs, AVB Ethernet ports for connection to the Stage, as well as free slots for DSP-HDX expansion cards.

Additional expansion cards can also be added to the E6L, such as MADI-192 for bidirectional MADI over BNC connectors; BT-192 Thunderbolt, that offers recording and playback of a high number of channels from compatible Pro Tools systems, in addition to the aforementioned HDX-192 DSP expansion cards, that provide additional processing power to run AAX DSP plug-ins.

The third element of the system is Stage64, a fully modular stage rack with 64 Tickets and 32 Outputs, incorporating AVB over copper and fiber as well as MADI output. An S6L system can have multiple Stage64s whose inputs and outputs can be shared with two or more, all with automatic gain control for easy, for example, FOH configurations, monitors and recording without having to go through expensive analog splitters.

It is also possible to add an optional DNT-192 Dante card, What it offers 16 audio channels on this network, configurable as 16×0, 8×8 or 0×16; Supports 48/96/192 kHz and redundant network connections.

Last, The fourth component of the system, Venue software offers a refreshed, more visible look that mixing engineers will be very comfortable with. You can also use the Venue show files, built with previous S6L systems, significantly minimizing installation time.