Presonus' StudioLive 16.0.2 digital recording and performance mixer, now shipping, is compact, portable, and rack-mountable (optional), and priced within reach of small bands, personal studios, intimate clubs, small churches, community organizations and rehearsal spaces — any application where the user is looking for a live-mixing and recording system, but doesn’t require mixer subgroups, channel inserts and other advanced features.
Designed with audio quality comparable to the larger StudioLive models, the 16.0.2 offers ample headroom, 32-bit floating-point processing, XMAX mic preamps and 24-bit, 48 kHz digital converters with 118 dB dynamic range. The new mixer also has a pair of programmable, stereo, 32-bit floating-point effects processors with reverb and delay presets that are assigned to dedicated FX buses.
Like the 16.4.2, the StudioLive 16.0.2 provides 16 input channels and an integrated FireWire
Interface. It can also be used for both studio recording and live sound, and comes with an integrated software suite. The 16.0.2 also presents the same user interface and components as the two bigger models.
Unlike the StudioLive 16.4.2 and 24.4.2, the StudioLive 16.0.2 has MIDI input and output, providing MIDI control over key mixer parameters. Using an external MIDI controller (such as a foot pedal) or MIDI messages transmitted over FireWire from their computer, users can control the main output level and effects output levels, recall effects presets and assign effects to the main bus, and recall global mixer Scenes.
Input channels 1 through 8 have ¼" TRS line inputs and XLR microphone inputs with high headroom XMAX Class A mic preamplifiers. Channels 9 through 16 are configured as odd/even stereo pairs. Odd-numbered channels have ¼" TRS line inputs and XMAX-equipped XLR mic inputs, while even-numbered channels offer ¼" TRS line ins but no mic inputs. Channels 13 through 16 also have unbalanced RCA line inputs.
Individually defeatable phantom power is provided on the 12 channels with mic preamps. The talkback section also features an XMAX mic preamp and phantom power. Users can use four aux sends—enough to handle monitors for a small band or event—and adjacent channels and aux buses can be stereo linked. A stereo, 31-band graphic EQ serves the main bus.
The 16.0.2's Fat Channel processing section provides panning, phase reverse, high-pass filter, compressor, limiter, downward expander, and 3-band semi-parametric EQ to every channel, every aux, the two onboard effects outputs, and the main bus. The Fat Channel also offers extensive LED metering, mixer save/recall and channel-strip save/recall/copy/paste.
StudioLive 16.0.2's built-in 16×16 FireWire computer interface enables easy computer recording and playback, and it works with any Mac or Windows audio software that supports Core Audio or ASIO, including all of the major DAWs.
Like all StudioLive mixers, the 16.0.2 comes bundled with PreSonus’ new Capture 1.1
recording software for Mac OS X (including OS X 10.6) and Windows (including Windows 7).
Designed primarily for live recording, Capture is preconfigured to record with the StudioLive, so all mixer channels are correctly routed to Capture tracks.
Users simply launch Capture, open a new session, click once to arm all tracks, click on Record, and are then able to capture audio from all 16 channels. They can also drop markers and do simple edits, but Capture is not intended to replace a DAW.
That's why StudioLive mixers come with PreSonus’ Studio One Artist digital audio workstation
software for Mac and Windows, which features unlimited track count, a full complement of
PreSonus Native Effects plug-ins and a high-quality audio engine. PreSonus also offers an upgrade path from Studio One Artist to the more-powerful Studio One Pro.
Every StudioLive mixer is bundled with PreSonus Universal Control, which includes Virtual StudioLive (VSL) bidirectional mixer-control software for Mac and Windows. VSL provides bidirectional control of channel and main-bus levels, Fat Channel parameters, aux mixes, effects,
and the graphic EQ. Users get a visual overview of their StudioLive settings so they can see, tweak and organize them and manage presets and Scenes – as easy as drag-and-drop.
Users can also wirelessly control the StudioLive 16.0.2 from an Apple iPad running PreSonus' SL
Remote, available free from Apple's App Store. Just set up a wireless network between the iPad and a Mac or PC running VSL, and SL Remote will control VSL, which in turn controls the
StudioLive mixer. SL Remote is designed for the iPad, taking advantage of touch-screen control
portrait vs. landscape views and other iOS features.
For more information, please visit www.presonus.com.
