Designed for professional radio on-air and production applications, the Axel Technology Oxygen 2000 Dante is a digital broadcast mixer with 12 faders and an assortment of inputs and outputs including five microphone inputs, two stereo analog inputs, Bluetooth, USB, and digital (AES/EBU) I/O, as well as a telephone hybrid or Telco with GPIO.
Notable features include high-resolution meters, HDMI output, low-latency operation, users presets, smart keys, EQ, and compressors. An optional presenter Talkbox manages a direct connection of the microphone, an integrated headphone amplifier (2 x 1/4"), an On-Air light, and two backlit buttons (On/Off/Cough and Console Talk Back).
* Oxygen 2000 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 2000 Dante versions, the USB I/O ports are disabled.)
- Up to 5 microphone inputs with Automix on each Audio I/O Board
- 3 Mic on XLR and 2 Mic on RJ45 (with Talk Box connector/adapter) all balanced with +48V phantom and GPIO on the Audio I/O Board
- Independent on-air lights and cutoff control when opening control-room and studio microphones
- PFL button switches to private conversation on Hybrid/Telco/BT mode
- Enable TalkBack feature on any studio or control-room microphone
- Parametric compressors/expander with enhanced features 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)
Analog Inputs
- 2 balanced stereo analogue inputs on RJ45, up to 2 additional balanced stereo analogue inputs (one on XLR and one on RJ45) using other input sources, on each Audio I/O Board
- Channel mode selection: STEREO, MONO, L, R, INV-L, INV-R, INV
Analog Outputs
- For each Audio I/O Board 4 Balanced Outputs:
- OUT – 1 & 2 XLR – Assignable
- OUT – 3 & 4 RJ45 – Assignable
USB Audio I/O
- 2 Built-in stereo USB-B I/O audio interfaces allow to directly connect the PC to the Oxygen 2000 console, with no need for audio cards
- 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
Digital Output
- 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
- Adjustable maximum control-room and studio headphones volume
- 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 (studio speakers only via Software Remoter)
- Independent talkback management on control-room and studio speakers (only via Software Remoter)
- Independent talkback management on control-room, studio headphones(only via Software Remoter)
- Same source selection for control-room and studio headphones, with independent level (studio ppeakers only via Software Remoter)
- Telephone Hybrid: 1 POTS/PSTN telephone line with Line In and Tel Set connection on each audio I/O board
- Telco: 1 in/out N-1 to connect external telephone hybrid with control via TLC/GPIO, on each audio I/O Board
- Up to 6 Telco using other input sources, on each Audio I/O Board
- GPI and GPO management on max 5 Telco I/O, on each Audio I/O Board
- RING and HOOK on F keys for each TELCO I/O
- N-1 on Telco outputs for all BUS (PGM, SUB, AUX-1, and AUX-2)
- 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)
- 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
- Direct 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 dB to 0 dB)
- Oxygen Remoter is a software tool available for free with any Oxygen console. It offers advanced remote-control features such as access for any setup information, fader and buttons control, and any other operation available on the physical consoles. It is useful for compact consoles and in any environment that has limited space.
- The Virtual Fader technology enables users to assign each input to a virtual fader/channel on the remote surface, this is useful when controlling channels remotely. Additionally, transforming the A/B pair into two virtual faders is a smart solution that maximizes the management of the available sources.
- Oxygen Remoter can remotely control multiple consoles and create an ecosystem, this can be helpful for remote productions, where for instance, a portion of the channels may need to be controlled from a studio, while the others are still managed from the physical surface in the control room.
- Oxygen Remoter is downloadable from the Oxygen console’s administration web page.
The HDMI output allows you to connect an HD display monitor to the console, suitable to be used in two flavors:
Monitor—displays the following information:
- Audio input source levels
- 4+1 BUS output levels
- A/B source names assigned of 10 channels
- Display on-air sources
- Microphone on timer (control room and studio)
- Large Clock
- Audio output level (Loudspeakers & Headphones)
- On-air microphone
- Telephone active
Configure—configures all of the device features.
- HDMI output combined with 4 rotary knobs allow fast and intuitive programming of all the mixer parameters.
- The programming GUI has been designed to be intuitive.
- Selectable home-page layouts are available with many theme icons.
HDMI output can be personalized with your logo. Selectable display layouts are available.
Oxygen 2000 has a BT module. This allows airing calls made via GSM, Skype, Viber, and WhatsApp with a smartphone, a tablet or a PC. Oxygen 2000 has two BT connection modes: Bidirectional to support phone calls, or Monodirectional to put on-air high-quality stereo audio (A2DP) streamed by BT sources. (Wit
