Coming in 2-, 4- and 8-channel configurations, the EQ Stations are all 2U units featuring the best TC quality AD/DA conversion and the most powerful DSP processing. Each channel includes simultaneously: 6-band Parametric EQ, 29-band Graphic EQ, 3-band Dynamic EQ, Brickwall Limiter and Delay. Internally, EQ Station uses 48-bit processing for wide headroom, analog EQ modelling and no compromise processing. Building upon the heritage of the award winning TC6032/TC1128 Graphical EQ system, the EQ Station is the new EQ standard of the millennium. For years TC has made high-end digital processors for the recording markets. Based on State of the Art TC technology, the introduction of the EQ Station range provides a new level of performance previously unavailable in the Live Sound Market.
Product Manager, Niels Helbo, explains: "TC has wanted to re-enter the live-markets with dedicated products for a long time. With the EQ Station range we are now able to offer the highest quality required for the extreme demands in live-applications, both in terms of performance in the signal-path, and in terms of an easy-to-operate user interface, which is crucial for the live-sound engineer."
Graphic EQ being the core processing of EQ Station, offers a unique feature where it is possible to select between three very different EQ filter-construction types: Cascaded filters, parallel filters or a mix of cascaded and parallel filters. We have found that these different EQ filter-designs explain why various analogue graphical EQs are experienced as giving very different responses, despite the fact that they are all known as 1/3-octave EQs. Switching between the EQ-types, EQ Station is able to emulate and behave exactly as e.g. a TC1128 and other well known industry standard graphical EQs, giving the user a unique opportunity to select the response type that fits his specific application - and the one he is most familiar with.
Each EQ Station may be operated directly from the front-panel featuring a high quality ΒΌ-VGA resolution full colour display and multiple direct access knobs and buttons, or from the external PC/Mac editor software via standard TCP/IP based Ethernet. The optional MotoFader-64 remote with 29 high-quality motorized faders (lightweight and only 4U) can be used to directly control up to 64 channels of graphical EQ during live-performances.
The EQ Station is expected to ship September 1, 2003 and will be on show at PLASA on stand L90.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
