Yamaha CL5 Digital Mixing Console

amaha’s new CL series digital mixing consoles offer an evolved experience in accessible mixing plus sonic purity and advanced sound shaping capabilities that will give the most imaginative engineers unprecedented creative freedom. Yamaha CL series digital mixing consoles represent a new level of refinement. They offer an evolved experience in accessible mixing, plus sonic purity with sound shaping capabilities that will give the most imaginative engineer unprecedented creative freedom. The CL series embodies the leading standards in live sound in their most advanced, most expressive form.\n\nThe CL Series EQ and effects have been vastly expanded. They include an Effect Rack that features VCM analog circuitry modeling technology, as well as a Premium Rack that includes the Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5033 equalizer and Portico 5043 compressor/limiter, developed in close cooperation with Rupert Neve himself. Yamaha began working with Rupert Neve Designs in 2010, developing devices based on Yamaha’s VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) technology. Rupert Neve had this to say about the outstanding quality of the VCM models of the Portico 5033 Equalizer and Portico 5043 Compressor: “This is a very exciting time, because for the first time we have the capability of bringing Rupert Neve sound into the live sound field. This is entirely due to the Yamaha VCM technology. I do believe that it is indistinguishable from the original analog sound.”\n\nTwo new rack-mountable I/O units, the Rio3224-D and Rio1608-D, can be used in a variety of combinations and configurations, communicating via a scalable Audinate Dante™ digital audio network. Up to eight I/O rack units can be connected to a CL series console, while multiple CL series consoles can share control of the same I/O rack unit. A new Gain Compensation function adds the ability to combine FOH and monitor control via a single network, for comprehensive digital live sound integration.\n\nExtra flexibility is provided by the CL StageMix application for iPad, providing wireless remote control capability for setting up and operating CL consoles from anywhere on stage or in the audience seating area. The Yamaha Console File Converter is another useful computer application, allowing data to be shared between CL series, PM5D, M7CL, and LS9 consoles, so data from one show doesn’t have to be completely reprogrammed from scratch for the next, even if different consoles are used.\n\nDual 8-fader sections in a space-saving console that can be used alone or cascaded to another CL console for input expansion.\nInput channels: 48 mono, 8 stereo.\nFader configuration: 8-fader left section, 8-fader Centralogic section, 2-fader master section.\nMeter bridge optional.\nAdvantages of Dante Networking:\nLarge bandwidth capability\nLong cable length capability\nUncompressed multi-channel, low-latency digital audio over a standard ethernet network\nHigher channel count and automatic configuration\nNo need for masses of bulky, heavy, expensive, inflexible copper wires\nSimple, single lightweight and inexpensive cat5 cable\nIntegrated media and control\n Control signals on the network without additional cabling\nLeverage off the shelf IT equipment to take full advantage of IT industry developments in functionality, reliability, availability and cost savings