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CLUB XS 8 - 8 input MIXER WITH COMPRESSORS ON ALL MICROPHONE CHANNELS
LIST PRICE: $249.99 STREET PRICE: $199.99 INTRO PRICE: $159.99
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New to the range for 2016 are our CLUB XS range of compact, and portable mixing consoles. Offering all the features and specifications required from mixing consoles at this level, at a great price point. With features such as 3 band EQ, built-in channel compression, DSP effects and a hugely versatile MP3/USB/SD card playback and recording system. Compare the Club XS 8 to similar products:
Also available in 6 (2 mic), 10 (6mic) and 12 (8 mic) input models. The Club XS 8 10 inputs with 4 mic channels and 2 stereo input channels. Power is via an in-built low-noise switch-mode power supply which accepts AC voltages from 100v to 265v. This unit is supplied with a US plug to IEC cable. No wall wart to loose. Mic input channels, are fully featured with 3 band EQ, 2 Auxiliaries, balanced mic/line connectors, compressor control.48v phantom power, 60mm ultra smooth faders and a useful channel MUTE switch. Stereo channels differ only with 2 band EQ and no compressor. Main outputs are balanced XLR, with additional jack outputs available for auxiliaries and control room, and RCA phono record/playback facilities. The USB/SD card facility for stereo recording / playback make the CLUB XS ideal for project home recording or giving the ability to supply interval / backing music to your live performance. To add further practicality to the unit, there is a built in MP3 player and Bluetooth playback facility to give you every opportunity to make your live performance as quick and easy to set-up as possible. Also included on all CLUB XS models is a high quality 16 program DSP effects unit. | WHY COMPRESSION? A compressor reduces (i.e. compresses) the dynamic range by reducing the loudest sounds. Once you have reduced the dynamic range you can raise the overall system volume a bit without fear of it suddenly getting too loud or damaging your speakers. Bringing up the overall volume will also have the effect of bringing up the quietest portions of audio so it is more clearly understood in the midst of background sounds such as coughing, children and ventilation systems. WHY BUILT-IN? These built in compresses are very cost effective. Imagine having to buy 6 outboard channels of compression. 300-3,000 dollars later .... Outboard compressors have way more control, but these on-board single knob compressors will work perfectly for 85-95% of instances. And when compared to similar quality/featured mixers - like the Soundcraft EPM6 we pay you to use them! Well sort of. The XS10 is as good or better in quality and features plus the compressors, plus the MP3 player with display and the USB record/Playback circuit, and will cost you $30 less. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Specification
|  Studiomaster started in 1976 as RSD (Recording Studio Design) and one of the first British companies to build high powered sound reinforcement amplifiers with studio quality specifications. The RSD 800B, was a robust amplifier with 800 watts per channel - England's answer to the USA's Phase Linear 400, and Australia's Jands J300S. RSD was unable to keep up with demand for their 800B, as it became the amp of choice for all the great British and Euro bands of the 70s and 80s, including Pink Floyd. The company kept on developing ground breaking new products, introducing the first compact monitor console and one of the first 8-buss home recording mixing desks, designed to operate with the new breed of eight-track home recording tape machines. It was this – the Studiomaster 16–8 – that heralded the change of company name and the move to a new factory in the town of Luton where it remained for many years. Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, the their R&D department produced a string of innovative products, continually making available features and technologies, previously the preserve of big recording studios or millionaire musicians, to bands and songwriters just starting out.
Among them were the first four buss mixers, designed as sub-mixers for the new breed of keyboard bands, with their racks of synths, sequencers and drum machines, and for four-track bedroom recordists. It was the ‘invention’ of the powered mixer however, that would be the next big success story and become the ‘signature’ Studiomaster product class.
The Studiomaster 8–2 married the two things the company did better than anyone else – a compact portable professional mixer with integrated power amplification; in this case separate left, right and monitor channel amplification. Effectively a PA system in a box, it only needed wiring up to speaker cabinets. The powered mixer was a gift to gigging musicians, small venues and rehearsal studios the world over. Along with more firsts like MIDI automation featured home recording desks and preset operable digital effects processors, the company continued its growth and mass market domination of the music technology industry. Today Studiomaster is not only a sound industry legend, it remains a UK based pro-audio engineering and manufacturing company, under the ownership of the Soundking Group, among the largest musical equipment and professional audio manufacturers in China. While retaining its product development and engineering activities, and strategic management and distribution functions at its Milton-Keynes head quarters in the UK, it has access to investment and mass production facilities via its parent company in Ningbo, south of Shanghai. |
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