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Ramsa DA7 mkII Digital Audio Mixer

Made by Panasonic

April 2003
The Panasonic Professional Audio Group (a.k.a. Ramsa) has discontinued sales in the United States. Panasonic will continue to operate the technical support line at 1-323-436-3620 until June 30, 2003. After this date WR-DA7 customers may want to visit the Panasonic sponsored "DA7 user message board" at http://www.DA7.com to locate application information as well as engage other users regarding your technical questions. The board may also contain information regarding independent contractors offering support services on a chargeable basis. Panasonic will continue to provide parts and repair services for the Pro Audio product line for in and out of warranty units. Spare parts are available from the Panasonic National Parts Center in Kent, WA. On-line at http://www.pasc.panasonic.com/epartr/ or by calling 1-800-833-9626.

The Digital Revolution in Sound Continues.
Great sound quality, flexibility and high performance: It's easy to see how the Panasonic DA7 became an industry favorite. To improve it, we to turned to the experts-and that's where you came in.

The Panasonic DA7mkII Digital Audio Mixer is the board you helped design, loaded with the improvements you asked for-including greater audio signal control, shortcut keys, and advanced MIDI faders-plus much more.

Simplicity

  • Familiar "Analog-like" control
  • Intuitive multi-layer layout
  • Moving Faders, "1-step" functionality, dedicated knobs, faders and buttons
  • Auto Display Change/Auto Channel Select
  • Multi-LED's, backlit LCD, Peak/Presence Indicators
  • CUT, COPY, PASTE and UNDO editing

Control

  • Moving fader dynamic and scene automation with instantaneous recall
  • Total Inputs 38 Channels, 6 AUX Sends, 6 AUX Returns with 2-band parametric EQ
  • 8 buses (sub-groups) that can be digitally routed using a built-in patchbay for a total of 24 digital and analog I/O's
  • Complete digital format compatibility and exchangeability
  • 48 true 4-band parametric equalizers on every channel, bus and L/R masters
  • High/low band selectable peaking/shelving or high-pass/low-pass filter
  • Extremely narrow (0.1 octave) or wide (10 octave) Q parameters
  • + Or - 15dB boost or cut in 1/2 dB steps
  • 42 full function Compressor/Gate/Limiter or Expanders
  • Delays up to 300 ms on every channel
  • Discrete outputs with 5.1 panning for surround sound capability
  • Custom/MIDI Layer, MIDI Machine Control (MMC) and PC ports for Mac/Win software
  • 21-100mm Motorized Faders, Jog-Dial, Cursor keys and 10 key Keypad
  • Optional Tandem operation doubles the number of inputs to 76 total

Sound

  • 16-high quality ultra low noise padless mic pre-amps
  • 32-bit Internal signal processing (192dB Dynamic range)
  • 24-bit 7th order delta sigma modulation 64 times over-sampling A/D converters on inputs
  • 24-bit 64 times over-sampling D/A converters on Master and Monitor A outputs
  • Separate power supply units (internal) for analog and digital circuits
  • Custom LSI for high speed DSP signal processing
  • Linear response, low noise, low THD, equalizer, compressor and expander characteristics
  • Built in dithering for recording to 23-16-bit devices.
  • Powerful Headphone amp

Connectivity

  • 16 balanced XLR and 1/4" TRS Mic/line analog inputs
  • 16 analog inserts (pre A/D)
  • AES/S/PDIF (2 Ch.) digital I/O, Word Clock In/Out, MIDI, IN/OUT, MIDI Machine Control (MMC) RS-422/485, are standard
  • Optional ADAT lightpipe, TASCAM/TDIF, AES-EBU-SPDIF and analog AD-DA 8-Channel
  • SMPTE/Video-sync

Expandability

  • Tandem (dual-console) operation
  • SMPTE/V-Sync, (8 Ch.) Audio I/O cards
  • High resolution Meter Bridge and Automation software