Legendary Sound Quality - The Midas M32 LIVE 32-Channel Digital Mixing Console
The groundbreaking M32 LIVE console combines legendary Midas sound quality with advanced digital technology, future-proof floating point audio engine, extremely low-latency design and industry-leading 192 kHz ADC and DAC converters, creating a revolutionary mid-format live console. M32 LIVE features ultra-sleek styling, offering you a truly luxurious mixing experience. High-end construction materials include carbon fibre provide unparalleled durability and strength, plus substantially lower weight than comparable consoles.
The M32 LIVE utilises award-winning Midas PRO Series microphone preamplifiers and the custom-designed Midas PRO motorised faders that are rated for 1 million life cycles-three times more than other leading consoles.
The Midas M32 LIVE is a future-forward console that completely raises the bar for live mixing.
- Live performance and studio recording digital console with up to 40 simultaneous input channels
- 32 award-winning Midas PRO microphone preamplifiers
- 25 time-aligned and phase-coherent mix buses
- AES50 networking allows up to 96 inputs and 96 outputs
- 32 bi-directional channels of live recording/playback on dual SD/SDHC (cards not included)
- Up to 3 hours of 32 channel PCM recording in one session - stored as uncompressed WAV files
- High-performance carbon fibre, aluminium and high-impact steel structure
- 40 bit floating point digital signal processing
- 8 DCA and 6 mute groups
- 8 digital signal processing effects engines
- 25 Midas PRO motor faders
- Daylight viewable 7" full colour TFT display screen
- 32 x 32 channel USB 2.0 audio interface
- DAW remote control emulations of Mackie Control and HUI protocols
- Optional wireless remote control with Midas Apps for iPhone and iPad
- Auto-ranging universal switch-mode power supply
Creating Sonic Landscapes
The Midas preamplifier design eliminates typical imbalances of gain-setting stages, thereby improving the common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) and harmonic distortion to an almost immeasurable level. The constant high-frequency bandwidth topology assures excellent stability, RF rejection and noise performance at all gain levels, contributing to its transparent, open and dynamic sound. But it doesn’t end there, over the years many mix engineers have found that this robust and overload-tolerant design takes on a whole new dimension of sound when driven hard, the pristine audiophile reproduction giving way to just the right combination of harmonics, a warm and organic sound heard by millions of concertgoers and recorded for posterity on countless live albums over the years.
Since pristine sound always begins with the microphone preamplifier, the first point where your signal enters the console, M32 LIVE features genuine Midas microphone preamplifiers which faithfully reproduce every sonic detail so no part of a performance will ever be missed. Transparent and pristine sound, low noise and high common-mode rejection are all hallmarks of this classic design.
The microphone preamplifiers are the very same ones used in the industry standard Midas XL4 and HERITAGE 3000 consoles, which many consider to be the greatest analogue live consoles ever built. Over the past decade, the XL4 and HERITAGE 3000 have been utilised by countless top artists including Bon Jovi, Alanis Morrisette, AC/DC, Coldplay, Kid Rock, Metallica, Alicia Keys, Foo Fighters, Christina Aguilera, Sir Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, and many more.
The M32 LIVE draws from this same legacy to bring you an elite professional level of audio quality and performance.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Input Processing Channels: 32 Input Channels, 8 Aux Channels, 8 FX Return Channels
- Output Processing Channels: 16
- 16 aux buses, 6 matrices, main LRC: 100
- Internal Effects Engines (True Stereo / Mono): 16
- Internal Show Automation (structured Cues / Snippets): 500 / 100
- Internal Total Recall Scenes (incl. Preamplifiers and Faders): 100
- Signal Processing: 40-Bit Floating Point
- A/D Conversion (8-channel, 96 kHz ready): 114 dB Dynamic Range (A-weighted*)
- D/A Conversion (stereo, 96 kHz ready): 120 dB Dynamic Range (A-weighted*)
- I/O Latency (Console Input to Output): 0.8 ms
- Network Latency (Stage Box In > Console > Stage Box Out): 1.1 ms
- Connectors:
- Midas PRO Series Microphone Preamplifier (XLR): 32
- Talkback Microphone Input (XLR): 1
- RCA Inputs / Outputs: 2
- XLR Outputs: 16
- Monitoring Outputs (XLR / ¼" TRS Balanced): 2
- Aux Inputs/Outputs (¼" TRS Balanced): 6
- Phones Output (¼" TRS): 2 (Stereo)
- Digital AES/EBU Output (XLR): 1
- AES50 Ports (Klark Teknik SuperMAC): 2
- Expansion Card Interface: 32 Channel Audio Input / Output
- ULTRANET P-16 Connector (No Power Supplied): 1
- MIDI Inputs / Outputs: 1
- USB Type A (Audio and Data Import / Export): 1
- USB Type B, rear panel, for remote control: 1
- Ethernet, RJ45, rear panel, for remote control: 1
- Mic Input Characteristics:
- Design: Midas PRO Series
- THD+N (0 dB gain, 0 dBu output): <0.01% (unweighted)
- THD+N (+40 dB gain, 0 dBu to +20 dBu output): <0.03% (unweighted)
- Input Impedance (Unbalanced / Balanced): 10 kΩ / 10 kΩ
- Non-Clip Maximum Input Level: +23 dBu
- Phantom Power (Switchable per Input): +48 V
- Equivalent Input Noise @ +45 dB gain: -125 dB (22 Hz-22 kHz, unweighted)
- CMRR @ Unity Gain (Typical): >70 dB
- CMRR @ 40 dB Gain (Typical): >90 dB
- Input/Output Characteristics:
- Frequency Response @ 48 kHz Sample Rate: 0 dB to -1 dB (20 Hz-20 kHz)
- Dynamic Range, Analogue In to Analogue Out: 106 dB (22 Hz-22 kHz, unweighted)
- A/D Dynamic Range, Output (Typical): 109 dB (22 Hz-22 kHz, unweighted)
- Crosstalk Rejection @ 1 kHz, Adjacent Channels: 100 dB
- Output level, XLR Connectors (Nominal / Maximum): +4 dBu / +21 dBu
- Output Impedance, XLR Connectors (Unbalanced / Balanced): 50 Ω / 50 Ω
- Input impedance, TRS Connectors (Unbalanced / Balanced): 20 kΩ / 40 kΩ
- Non-Clip Maximum Input Level, TRS Connectors: +21 dBu
- Output Level, TRS (Nominal / Maximum): +4 dBu / +21 dBu
- Output Impedance, TRS (Unbalanced / Balanced): 50 Ω / 50 Ω
- Phones Output Impedance / Maximum output Level: 40 Ω / +21 dBu (Stereo)
- Residual Noise Level, Out 1-16 XLR Connectors, Unity Gain: -85 dBu 22 Hz-22 kHz unweighted
- Residual Noise Level, Out 1-16 XLR Connectors, Muted: -88 dBu 22 Hz-22 kHz unweighted
- Residual Noise Level, TRS and s Monitor out XLR Connector: -83 dBu 22 Hz-22 kHz unweighted
- Display:
- Main Screen: 7" TFT LCD, 800 x 480 Resolution, 262k Colours
- Channel LCD Screen: 128 x 64 LCD with RGB Colour Backlight
- Main Meter: 24 Segment (-57 dB to Clip)
- Power:
- Switch-Mode Power Supply: Auto-Ranging 100-240 VAC (50/60 Hz) ± 10%
- Power Consumption: 120 W
- Physical:
- Standard Operating Temperature Range: 5°C – 40°C (41°F – 104°F)
- Dimensions: 891 x 612 x 256 mm (35.1 x 24.1 x 10.1")
- Weight: 25 kg (55 lbs)
Manufacturer: Midas
Model: M32 LIVE_US1
SKU: I609722-10-WHXA
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