Fusion
The Zaxcom Fusion is a high resolution audio mixer and recorder for reality television, surround recording and ENG.
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Fusion Features:
Touch Screen Interface
Fusion’s full color touch screen interface is the key to ultimate functionality. It provides instant control of over 300 mixer cross points and over 200 user parameters. It’s easy to read in direct sunlight and offers a lock feature to prevent accidental operation.
Analog Inputs
Fusion incorporates eight very low noise, low distortion microphone preamps with 48V phantom power. Many Emmy® and Oscar® winning productions have been recorded with the Zaxcom preamp. The transformer-less design enhances audio quality by eliminating low frequency distortion common in transformer-based microphone preamps. Each of the eight inputs can be switched between mic and line level operation and feature a powerful 48V phantom power supply.
Analog Input Limiter
The Fusion's analog input limiter prevents high level audio from clipping the A-D converter in the analog domain.
Digital Inputs
The Fusion has four AES input pairs with sample rate conversion, allowing each input to have a different sample rate. This is key on location where it’s not always possible to lock external AES sources.
Mixing
Fusion can mix 16 inputs to eight output busses and records up to eight tracks* on the internal Compact Flash card. The mixer has infinite routing capability: any input can be routed to any output pre-fader, post-fader or phase inverted. The Deva Mix-12 control surface can also be utilized to form an all digital location recording and mixing package.
Recording
The Fusion records simultaneously to two Compact Flash cards creating a 100% solid-state recording with backup. CF cards were chosen because of their immunity to extreme temperature and motion.
Audio is recorded in two separate file formats, MARF and FAT32. The main CF card records in Mobile Audio Recording Format (MARF) which is designed to be fault tolerant ensuring that if power is lost during a recording all audio up to that point is recoverable. The MARF system and its audio-centric operation has eliminated several of the reliability issues associated with FAT32 recordings.
The backup card records on the common FAT32 file system so cards can be given away to post or copied to any computer.
Camera / Stereo RF Link Connection
Fusion connects directly to the 10-pin Hirose connector located on most cameras, providing a two channel camera feed with audio return. It can also connect to a TRX900AA transmitter with an STA100 Stereo Adaptor for a two-channel camera RF link with return audio and time code transmission. All audio connections are balanced line level which eliminates the mic level ground loop noise common in FM wireless systems. The Fusion’s camera output level is 0dBu and is directly compatible with most
cameras without the use of external amplification.
Metering
The Fusion provides metering of all input channels and output busses in four different formats based on user preference. Channel metadata is superimposed on meters to aid in meter identification. Signal levels are color coded to aid in rapid identification of overload conditions and touching a meter selects individual channels for PFL solo monitoring.
Firewire Port
Fusion acts as a master to power and control external FireWire hard drives and DVD-RAM drives.
RF Interference Protection
The Fusion was designed from the ground up to operate in close proximity to sensitive receivers. Wireless devices can coexist in the sound bag with the Fusion running from the same power source.
Time Code
A full-featured SMPTE time code interface is standard. All common frame rates and time code modes are supported including auto-load. The Fusion can automatically enters record and stop based on incoming time code. The Fusion timecode clock keeps running even when the power is off.
Input Sample Rate Conversion
Fusion will accept any unlocked AES signal with a sample rate of 32KHz to 192KHz. The dynamic range of the sample rate conversion is 124dB offering completely transparent conversion of digital audio from one sample rate to another.
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