Overview:

ARENA’s design concept satisfies the diverse working environments of radio station operations around the world. Easily configured for use in television, ARENA can be adapted for any operational requirement.

• The AEQ ARENA is a digital mixing console for radio broadcasting applications. It is especially designed for controlling on-air transmissions, and is adaptable to different working situations that arise in today's radio operations. The ARENA includes all the basic features needed in this sort of environment: automatic monitor cut-off, cough muting, fader start, control signalling, control signals for the automation of external equipment, external communications management, intercom, etc.
• Thanks to its special characteristics, it easily adapts to different working configurations: autocontrol (self-op), control room-studio, control associated with several studios, mixed configurations, integration into large facilities, etc.
• One of the most important virtues of this mixer is its routing capability. The system can make more than 30,000 crosspoints. This routing power makes it possible, for example, for all the system outputs to be summable and re-routable to other outputs; it enables as many n-1 buses or clean-feeds to be created as there are available outputs,
• Simplicity and control power are combined to make both the most basic and advanced operating tasks easy.
• The flexibility offered by the configuration of the ARENA allows the assignment of the signals present in the system to any control channel, and the modification of that signal distribution can be done from the control surface itself.

• Main Section - The DM control surface has an additional display for general system administrative functions.This is a dual-purpose display,with select keys for each channel used to apply dedicated functionality to a particular signal.

• Monitoring Section - The ARENA control surface has a multi-purpose display which shows parameters specific to each channel,the routing of the signals and a VU meter for eah signal present on the surface.The ARENA DM has two sections for monitoring the control room and the studio.These sections have independent level controls for the control rom monitor,studio monitor and headphone monitor circuits as well as the CUE monitor speakers built into the control surface itself.
• The ARENA DM allows users to program special function in a library which includes defining GPIs,GPOs,control of hybrids and codecs management of different studios,etc
• Talk-Back - As a control surface,the ARENA contains no audio signals except for a few which permit the operation and control of the system.

• Complete Routing Solution - Users can activate or deactivate the sends on each channel,independently adjust their levels,and individually modify without limitation ,the pre-fader and the post -fader assignments.
• Diverse Application Adaptation - The ARENA control surface easily adapts to different modes of operation.Depending upon operations requirements,controls are able to perform distinct functions which are suited for each purpose.

ARENA Control Surface Features:

General Functionality

• Cough muting, ON-AIR signalling for studio and control room, fader start, remote PFL, talkback, automatic monitor cut-off
• Multi-studio control from a single ARENA DM surface
• Unlimited number of n-1 outputs
• Signal grouping option
• Integrated control over external equipment (AEQ hybrids and audio codecs)
• Configurable as Multiplex (Mix-Minus) mixer
• Independent pre-fader / post-fader option for all routings
• Control communication through Ethernet 10/100 connection under TCP/IP protocol
• Selectable auto-startup option under which system starts with the last settings made or with the default configuration
• Optional Redundant DSP processor
• Multi-Level,Multi-user passwords:administrator,operator and basic operation

DM and D10 Control Surfaces General-features

• Signal assignable to any control channel
• Up to nine pages on each surface with option of synchronizing them to each other
• Configurable monitoring for all signals in the system
• VU meters by channel on each control surface
• Four channel control buttons that are configurable as a direct routing keyboard
• Storage in memory of settings of all signals assigned to page one
• ON/OFF buttons can be positioned above or below the faders
• Front panel access to modules for easy maintenance

DM Control Surfaces Specific-features

• Stereo Monitor Speakers for pre-fade monitoring
• Input for talk-back microphone with digital output
• Headphone output with digital input
• Two user configurable precision digital VU meters
• Two headpone circuits and one independent monitor circuit for talk back
• Auto-adjust timer and clock for each signal
• Phase meter associated with the CUE channel

ARENA SYSTEM Specifications:

Inputs and outputs

• Maximum capacity for 21 input / output modules
• Phantom power and transformer balancing for microphone inputs
• Electronically balanced line inputs and outputs
• Transformer-balanced digital inputs and outputs
• Independent sample rate converters for the inputs and outputs
• Accepts AES/EBU, S-PDIF and MADI digital signal formats
• MADI connections via coaxial cable or optical fibre (available in single mode and multimode)
• Four GPIs and four GPOs on each input / output board (analogue, digital and microphones)

System processing capacities

• Redundant power supply and optional DSP module redundancy
• Capacity for up to 20 DSP modules
• Internal sampling rate: 48 kHz at 24 bits
• Internal bus: 32 bits in floating point
• Gain control (digital and analogue signals): ± 12 dB
• Selectable balance / pan control for all channels
• Selective phase inversion
• Available audio effects: four-band parametric equalizer, high and low pass filters, compressor-limiter, noise gate, delay, reverb

Dimensions and Weight

• Main unit: 6RU X 19"(482.6 x 266.7 x 450.0 mm;from 12 to 22 kg)
• Power Supply: 2RU x 19" (482.6 x 89.0 x 450.0 mm; 8.2kg
• ARENA DM : (458 x 260 x 605 mm;11.2 kg)
• ARENA D10: (458 x 260 x 605 mm; 11.0 kg)

Front  Panel Features:

Rear Panel Features:

What's in the Box?

• 4m Power Supply
• 1.5m Shielded,Flexible RJ-45-RJ-45 Cable for the interconnection of the ARENA D10 with ARENA DM