Sound By Design are proud to announce the purchase of two DiGiCo D1 Live 56MiNi-DR systems.

Based on the award-winning D5, the D1 provides the same outstanding sonic purity and much of its powerful, instantly accessible control, in an even more compact frame.

The D1 Live provides simultaneous processing of 96 mono/ stereo channels and can be expanded up to 160 channels, in any combination of mono/ stereo with full access to 224 inputs and 224 outputs. Each channel provides full routing from the remote pre amps, 240ms delay, hi- and low-pass filters, 4 fully parametric EQ's and dynamics with side chain filtering.

The 25 layered faders, are grouped in blocks of 8 with 6 user definable fader banks per section.

The full digital effects system's six independent effect processors include everything from high quality reverbs, delays and pitch change to multiband compressors and 28-band graphic equalisers.

The 40 output busses can be used for up to 28 mono/ stereo auxes or up to 36 mono/ stereo/ LCR (S)/ 5.1 surround busses, each with a limiter and insert point. It also provides a user configurable 38x8 matrix, all with insert points.

All 16 IPC's (insertable processing channels) include 6-band, fully parametric EQ, compressor and up to 510ms of delay. They can be inserted across any input or output, or used as individual output processors, making the D1 a powerful system controller. With 16 VCA style control/ mute groups able to control inputs and outputs, the D1 is ready for any kind of application, and the flexible, modular remote input and output racks make it easy to adapt it to any system.

Each Sound By Design DiGi-Rack has been built with maximum flexibility in mind. Each input channel has a passive XLR split and all the inputs are mirrored on two 108-pin Harting connectors, which can be used to split to an analogue board or another DiGi-Rack if digital gain-tracking is not desired. Each 8-way output card is also split to an 8-way multi-pin connector allowing multiple outputs to be easily sent to multiple destinations.

Sound By Design's complete 56MiNi-DR systems come with the following:

• 96 channel worksurface (increased from the standard 64) with effects, 16 IPC output processors and 2 PSUs (protected by UPS)
• Stage DiGi-Rack (MADI) fitted with 56 mic inputs, 24 line outputs and 2 PSUs
• Local MiNi-Rack (MADI) fitted with 8 mic inputs, 16 line outputs, 8 AES/EBU input/ output and 2 PSUs
• 1x 100m MADI multicore cable (with 16A power)
• 1x 100m MADI multicore cable (spare)

Other configurations are available, for example each system can be broken down to the worksurface and a DiGi-Rack (D1 Live 56DP) allowing the utilisation of a standard copper multicore if the situation requires it. Another possibility is the addition of a second DiGi-Rack to the 56MiNi-DR system to create a single 112MiNi-DR system, allowing 112 inputs on stage.