Hayden is also showing equipment for the fixed installation market, including Rane’s renowned ECS conferencing system products and their various CobraNET interfaces, a selection of Denon twin-CD players and music source machines, plus Rane club and processing products. Grandmaster Flash - himself instrumental in the development of the Empath mixer - is rumoured to be making an appearance on Stand G32 on the Sunday afternoon - watch this space for details!
The Rane Empath DJ mixer is the first 3-channel, 10" format mixer to offer big-board features and studio quality sound, say Hayden Labs. The Empath is feature-packed, while also being easy and intuitive to use. Rane consulted Grandmaster Flash from the early stages of the mixer’s development, and he is responsible for many of the machine’s principal features and control locations. The name Empath implies understanding, awareness and sensitivity to DJ’s needs - and that’s exactly what Rane has set out to achieve with this seminal product. The Empath mixer is designed for professional DJs and applications like clubs, broadcast, competitions, remixes, and live performance.
The Denon DN-780R and ACD780 option board will be seen at PLASA for the first time. This is a twin-output auto-reverse cassette deck recorder with independent A and B audio outputs. Featuring a variety of recording modes, mic mixing and recording and twin output recording, the machine replaces two older units. Its applications are again varied and across the board of pro audio - from fixed installations to bars, clubs, restaurants, and live music venues. The unit occupies 3U of rack space and offers a variety of remote control options.
Denon’s 3U rack-mounting DNT625 and DNT645 combi cassette/CD decks are one of the biggest selling Denon products and can be found in every conceivable market - including health and fitness, DJ, installations, AV and production. The health and fitness sector is the biggest user, particularly lately as many synchronised fitness routines like Body Pump are now available on CD. The two new machines replace the classic DNT-620 - one of Hayden’s largest and most consistent sellers - with more streamlined units.
The Rane RPM 44 and RPM 22 are 100% drag-and-drop configurable DSP devices, set up and controlled using Rane's new Drag Net software. Industry standard 10Base-T Ethernet is used to communicate between Drag Net devices and any Ethernet-equipped PC running Microsoft Windows. Drag Net offers the ultimate in signal processing flexibility, allowing the user to draw the system they need without signal flow restrictions. Familiar Windows file management tools and shortcuts are incorporated into Drag Net, for complete project management within a single interface. The RPM 44 provides four balanced, studio-grade analogue inputs (selectable mic or line level), and four balanced analogue outputs. The RPM 88 (the first in the range to be released) and the RPM 22 offer the same high-quality analogue I/O, in 8 and 2 channel configurations respectively. A two-channel AES3 digital input and two-channel AES3 digital output are also provided on each, making the RPM 44 a true 6-input, 6-output device. All I/O, including the AES3 I/O, have their own, 100% user-defined signal processing path. The RPM's analogue inputs feature soft
