Presonus StudioLive Series III 16R Overview
Presonus Product Overview
PreSonus’ 16-channel Series III StudioLive 16R is both a versatile AVB stage box for StudioLive Series III consoles and the most powerful rack mixer in its class. It can operate as a simple stage box or as a combined stage box/monitor mixer, including remote control of the preamps and phantom power from the Series III console. As with Series III consoles, it’s fully recallable and features a plug-in-style signal-processing workflow with vintage-style EQ and compression options on every channel; 6 FlexMixes that can be Aux, Subgroup, or Matrix mixes; 6-band fully parametric EQ on all mix outputs; and built-in AVB networking. In addition to 18x18 USB and 32x32 AVB recording interfaces, the StudioLive 16R features an onboard stereo SD recorder.
Key features
- *Free Fat Channel Collection!*
- Powerful Series III Stage Box and Rack Mixer
- Remote Mix Control for Both Wired and Wireless Devices
- Multitrack Recording via USB/Onboard Stereo Recording to SD Card
- 16 Recallable XMAX Mic Preamps
- 18 total inputs
- 16 mic/line channel inputs + 2 RCA inputs
- 6 ¼-inch TRS FlexMix outputs
- 2 XLR (L/R) Main outputs
- Stereo headphone output
- 16 input channels
- 1 stereo digital return (SD Card, AVB, or USB)
- 10 buses:
- 6 FlexMixes (can be designated as aux, subgroup, or matrix mixes)
- 2 internal effects sends
- Stereo main bus
- 6 Filter DCAs for easily and flexibly controlling groups of channels
- 1 Ethernet control network port
- Dynamic, Self Assigned, and Manual IP address modes
- 1 Ethercon AVB audio network port
- Onboard stereo SD recorder
- 18x18 USB recording interface
- 32x32 AVB recording interface
- Intuitive Fat Channel signal processing on every channel with:
- A/B settings comparison
- Highpass filter and polarity reverse
- Gate/expander with sidechain
- Compressor with sidechain
- 4-band parametric EQ on inputs
- 6-band parametric EQ on outputs
- Limiter
- Delay on every input
- Delay on every output
- Professionally programmed library of presets
- Vintage EQ and compressor models available on every input
- Passive EQ
- Vintage EQ
- Tube compressor
- FET compressor
- 8 31-band graphic EQs
- 2 internal effects buses: combination of reverbs and delays with modern and vintage options
- Built-in real-time analyzer
- Create, save, and edit up to 100 scenes
- Scene management with:
- Scene Safe—prevents a scene change from affecting designated “safe” channels
- Create, save, and edit channel settings and copy/paste between channels
- Advanced channel preset options can save and recall:
- Channel type and name
- Input settings (preamp, +48V phantom power, polarity, pan)
- Fat Channel A & B settings
- Bus assignments
- Aux and effects send levels and pan
- Select button color
- 8 Quick Scenes
- 8 Mute groups
- Studio-quality converters with 115 dB dynamic range
- 48 kHz operation with 24-bit resolution (44.1 kHz option coming soon)
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