THE SADiE LRX2 Location Audio Workstation has been designed to fulfil the needs of an ever more complex recording environment and to serve a wide variety of remote recording applications. It is as effective in capturing the original soundtracks for film and television productions as it is for producing location multitrack audio recordings for release on distributed media such as CD or DVD.

The LRX2 combines SADiE’s proven high-quality professional audio input and output ‘slither card’ i/o modules with a tactile hardware control surface and the ability to use a standard laptop via USB2 as the host computer to provide a powerful and effective combination according to the particular application.

Based on the original innovative SADiE LRX introduced in 2005, the LRX2 takes the concept a significant stage further by the provision of additional DSP power, plus control surface enhancements, to offer the user the ability to record up to 48 discrete inputs at 48kHz/24bit (or up to 32 tracks at 96kHz/24bit) from a variety of dedicated input cards. For maximum compatibility, these cards are the same as those employed in SADiE’s flagship PCM-H64/PCM-H128 multitrack editing workstations. * Please note that 192kHz operation is not currently fully supported in the LRX2.

The LRX2 hardware comprises a small assignable mixer with 8 motorised faders; including pre-fade listen and dedicated record enable buttons; a complete editorial interface with fully weighted jog wheel and ergonomic editing buttons; locator memories; transport controls and a headphone monitor output with separate headphone level control and a side-mounted microphone input socket for slate/talkback functions. The dedicated and assignable editing function buttons include Scrub, EDL/SRC, Xfade, Select, Zoom, In, Out, Razor and Preview plus the weighted jog wheel. The built-in mixer with automation and the 8 motorised faders allow rapid switching between the input and output busses with simple bank switching, pre-fade listen over headphone output, direct record track select, plus locator buttons and a separate monitor buss. The LRX2 is complemented with professional interfaces to lock the machine to timecode, video ref or gen-locked incoming AES ref, depending upon the application.

In addition to the current V5 operating software, the LRX2 is supplied with the dedicated SADiE MTR on-screen graphical user interface, which greatly simplifies user operation and enables the operator to quickly get to grips with the system. Sessions created in MTR mode are fully compatible with, and may be opened in, SADiE V5 software for more sophisticated post production operations. Full Metadata support is provided in MTR mode to allow the operator to easily keep track of recordings and takes.

The flexibility of the LRX2 hinges on its ability to utilise the same high quality i/o cards as the PCM-H64 and PCM-H128 multitrack workstations, according to a particular application; be it a multitrack analogue recorder; a multitrack digital recorder; a location sound recorder and playback device; on-set ADR; etc.

Input and output options are provided by three ‘slither’ receptacles which can accept any of the SADiE slither interface cards. In addition to the standard 16ch ADC/DAC and AES/EBU digital i/o cards, a switchable high quality 16ch mic/line card is available with 48v phantom power and selectable gain steps. A dedicated MADI interface card is also now available which facilitates easy interconnection of up to 64 tracks to studio or live digital consoles.

Slithers currently available are as follows:

  • 16 ch A-D
  • 16 ch D-A
  • 16 ch AES i/o
  • 16 ch Microphone input
  • 64 ch MADI i/o

This in-built flexibility allows the user to customise the LRX2 to suit their circumstances rather than having to modify their working techniques to cope with the inadequacies of their equipment.

The LRX2 utilises a standard PC Laptop running WindowsXP™ with a USB2 interface. A second external drive may be simply attached, via USB2 or Firewire, to mirror recordings and provide a simultaneous safety copy. An added benefit is that a DV-AVI video stream may be simultaneously captured for playback or ADR whilst the actors are still on set.

 

CONNECTIONS AND CONTROLS…
Rear Panel Connections:
 
  • LTC input (XLR)
  • LTC output (XLR)
  • AES Genlock (XLR)
  • Master monitor output (2x RCA phono)
  • Video input (BNC)
  • GPIF (D25) +12V power inlet (XLR 4p)
  • USB2
  • Talkback Mic Input
3 x ‘slither’ i/o slots which can accept various combinations of the following:
 
  • 16 ch A-D
  • 16 ch D-A
  • 16 ch AES i/o
  • 16 ch Microphone/Line input
  • 64 ch MADI i/o
Front Panel Controls:
 
Transport Controls:
 
  • Play
  • Stop
  • Record
Per channel strip:
 
  • Record Enable
  • Pre-Fade Listen
  • Motorised Fader
  • Channel Number indicator
Editing controls:
 
  • Scrub
  • EDL/Src
  • Xfade
  • Select
  • Zoom
  • In
  • Out
  • Razor
  • Preview
  • Weighted Scrub Wheel
Hotkeys:
 
  • Set
  • Prev
  • Next
  • Record All
  • Shift
  • Mode
Master section:
 
  • Master Fader
  • Talkback Button
  • Headphone Socket
  • Headphone Level Control