Generation Series: g-8

The Generation 8 is the major market console that effortlessly handles all the call-ins and remotes you'll ever encounter. An optional four fader panel dedicated specifically to call-in segments provides an error-free interface to four simultaneous callers or remotes, each with independent caller feed, independent fader feed, user-selectable talkback communication and adjacent channel linking. Like its sister, the larger G-9, the G-8 has 12 user-programmable buttons, plus additional programmable TALKBACK buttons for IFB functions or studio-to-studio communications. The G-8 is available in 8, 20, 32 or 44 fader configurations. 

• - Stand alone or networked operation
  - 4 Mix Output Busses
  - 8 Mix Minus Busses
  - 4  AUX sends with individual & master level control
  - Mix Minus (MXM) assignment functions effectively follow the source
  - Embedded CPU / FTP for high reliability and easy upgrades
  - 8-character alphanumeric source displays
  - Programmable Source & Destination Visibility
  - Control Room, 2 Studio, & Headphone Monitor feeds
  - XY System Controller
  - 12 Programmable Buttons
  - Optional Programmable Talkback Panel
  - 100 Control Surface Presets
  - High resolution LCD Screen VU Meters
  - Pan/Balance Controls
  - Channel Phase Reverse
  - Fader / Channel Mode Select
  - Built in Clock and Timer
  - Associated DSP engine located in remote Bridge Frame   
• - Instant fail over to spare DSP mix engine (optional)
  

The Generation series of control surfaces utilize popular and highly reliable TDM-based Wheatstone Bridge technology to provide tried-and-true audio I/O routing, mixing, and audio networking. The system is flexible in both configuration and size and can easily be expanded to host over 3,000 x 3,000 audio cross points.

The Bridge System has four different frame sizes available to accommodate different system needs. They are the Bridge, Satellite, E-SAT, and MicroSAT frames. Each can accommodate various I/O cards to meet the requirements of TOC and studio installations.

The TDM-based architecture of the Wheatstone Bridge system ties the elements of large audio systems together with the Bridge acting as the central routing switch for the audio to and from studios and TOC racks.

Multiple levels of redundancy is a hallmark of TDM-based Wheatstone Bridge audio networking technology. Redundant systems can consist of many possible combinations of redundant control surfaces, control surface CPUs, redundant DSP hosts, and even redundant Bridge chassis that can be connected together via dual Cat-5 links. Virtually any system can be custom configured to provide full redundancy with automatic and instantaneous switchover in the unlikely event of a single point system failure.