Designed for professional radio on-air and production applications, the Axel Technology Oxygen 1000 Rack is a fully digital faderless broadcast console in a 2 RU enclosure that's equipped with Bluetooth and 8 stereo channels of Dante I/O. The mixer is remotely controlled through a dedicated application for ease of use. The mixer includes three microphone inputs with Automix and a powerful internal audio routing with a wide range of controls and I/O.
The integrated digital signal processing delivers high-quality modern features and flexibility. The console is as reliable and easy-to-use as an analog mixing console. The Oxygen 1000 Rack features low latency, user presets, smart keys, EQ, compressors, telephone hybrid, HDMI output, analog and digital I/O, and USB.
Oxygen 1000 is equipped with a Dante interface (also supporting AES67 and SMPTE ST 2110-30 transport protocols), which provides 8 stereo inputs and 8 stereo outputs on a dedicated Ethernet port, with independent level control and sample rate conversion. (On Oxygen 1000 Dante versions, the USB I/O ports are disabled.)
- Fully digital broadcast console for radio broadcasting
- A/B Fast source switch buttons for each fader
- 4+1 busses (PGM, SUB, Aux1, Aux2, PFL)
- Near 0 latency (<0.7 ms I/O)
- Complete remote control by means of an application replicating the surface
- Remote configuration and maintenance via Web Interface
- User-definable presets and snapshots
- 5-band fully parametric equalizer on every input
- Dynamic processor with expander and compressor section on each microphone inputs
- Advanced and configurable Monitor Facilities for Control Room and Studio
- Customizable RGB colored buttons
- High-resolution 120-LED meter bars for outputs
- HDMI out for console status display
- 2 timers (control-room and studio microphones timers on HDMI Monitor)
- TalkBox for guest and presenter (optional)
- 3 microphone inputs with Automix
- 4 stereo analog inputs
- 4 stereo analog outputs
- 1 built-in telephone hybrid
- 1+4 telco interface with GPIO
- Bluetooth audio interface
- 1 digital out (AES/EBU)
- 2 USB audio interfaces (disabled with Dante option installed)
- 8 stereo inputs + 8 stereo outputs via Dante
- 3 microphone inputs with Automix
- Mic 1 on XLR, Mic 2-3 on RJ45, all balanced with +48V phantom power and GPIO
- Independent on-air lights and Cut Off control, when opening control room and studio microphones
- PFL button switches to private conversation on Hybrid/Telco/Bluetooth mode
- Enable talkback feature on any studio or control room microphone
- Parametric compressors/expander (drive, threshold, attack time, release time) for microphone and mono inputs
- Save and recall microphone presets, including compressor/expander settings
- Phase inversion on microphone inputs
- Mono inputs assignable as EXT source
- Ducking / AutoFader assignable to all sources (automatic attenuation of music on speech)
Automix feature simplifies mixing activities in the presence of many guests in the studio.
The function adds, to the existing sources, a new source called Automix, which is the sum of all enabled microphones.
The Automix source has all the features of a microphone source such as:
- Studio-/control-room loudspeakers control
- Studio-/control-room light control
- Can be used as audio in private mode for phone calls
Using this new source, the user can manage in a very simple manner all the microphones of the studio with a series of benefits:
- Just 1 fader for the management of studio microphones
- A dedicated AGC section for each microphone input automatically adjusts the correct level
- Automatic management of attenuation on microphones not in use, simulating a slight closure of the fader
- Final compressor that allows an automatic leveling of the Automix source
- Possibility to use the microphones individually
This feature further simplifies the work of the mixer engineer, even in the case he/she is also the host of the show
- Line stereo inputs: 4
- Balanced on XLR for Line 1, Balanced on RJ45 for Line 2-4
- Channel mode selection: Stereo, Mono, L, R, INV-L, INV-R, INV
- Stereo-1 and DANTE-1 inputs can be configured as 4 Telco inputs
- 2 built-in stereo USB-B I/O audio interfaces allow to directly connect the PC to the Oxygen 1000 Rack console, with no need for audio cards
- In fact, the PC detects each of the console USB as a digital audio card with 1 stereo inputs and 1 stereo outputs for simultaneous playout and recording
- Telephone Hybrid: 1 POTS/PSTN telephone line with line in and tel connection
- Telco: 1 in/out N-1 to connect external telephone hybrid with control via TLC/GPIO
- 4 mono additional telco can be obtained configuring analog inputs (Stereo-1 and DANTE-1) and (OUT-2 and DANTE-1) stereo outputs
- GPI and GPO management on all 5 Telco channels
- Ring and hook on F1 key for each TELCO channels
- N-1 on telco outputs for all buses (PGM, SUB, AUX-1, and AUX-2)
- Oxygen 1000 is equipped with a Bluetooth module, which allows airing the calls made via GSM, Skype, Viber, and WhatsApp with a smartphone, a tablet, or a PC. Oxygen 1000 has two Bluetooth connection modes: bidirectional to support phone calls; monodirectional to put on air high-quality stereo audio (A2DP) streamed by Bluetooth sources.
- With Bluetooth calls, PFL enables Private Conversation mode.
- 4 balanced outputs:
- OUT-1 – XLR – fixed as PGM
- OUT-2 – XLR – by default assigned as SUB
- OUT-3 – RJ45 – by default assigned as AUX-1
- OUT-4 – RJ45 – by default assigned as AUX-2
- OUT-2 stereo output can be configured as N-1 to achieve up to 2 mono additional telco
- OUT-1 and OUT-2 outputs are both equipped with a GPO
AES/EBU output on XLR
- Out-2-4 outputs: can be configured as studio presenter and studio guest headphones
- Unbalanced outputs: 2 line out on jack 6.3 for control room headphones
- Adjustable maximum control room and studio speakers volume (studio speaker only via SW)
- Adjustable maximum control room and studio headphones volume (studio headphones only via SW)
- Adjustable Cut or attenuation mode (-40, -30, -20, -10 dB) on control room and studio speakers
- Independent source selection (PGM, SUB, AUX1, AUX2, EXT) for control room and studio speakers, control room and studio headphones with or without PFL
- Independent Talkback management on control room and studio speakers
- Independent Talkback management on control room, studio headphones
- Same source selection for control room and studio headphones, with independent level
- GPI: 9 in total, for Talkback, Telephone Hybrid or other features
- GPO: 9 total, to control On Air lamps or provide hook and ring commands for external telephone hybrid
- User custom GPIs (e.g. ring, talkback, channel on/off, etc.)
- User custom GPOs (e.g. Hook / on-air, studio light, control-room light)
- Automatic firmware update via Internet
- WEB UI for console configuration and service features (save, restore, update, logs, etc.)
- Save and recall EQ presets (up to 10)
- New real-time EQ algorithm with graphic
- Fast and accurate LED meters display
- Save and recall control panel configuration with 10 Snapshots
- Save and recall total console configuration. The configuration can be saved to internal memory (microSD), USB and PC (via WEB interface)
- Gain adjustment knobs with adaptive speed
- Dimmable buttons light
- Adjustable fader on/off threshold (from -50 to 0 dB)
- The built-in telephone hybrid allows direct connection of a telephone line POTS/PSTN on RJ-11C
- The audio is processed via DSP that delivers a state-of-the-art audio processing. It's also available a Telco N-1 in/out, to connect Oxygen 1000 to an external telephone hybrid
- Telco N-1 is always available on RJ45
- TLC commands are available on the same RJ45 with hook and ring interfac
