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4RU Master Section System.
This system is extremely flexible and could be used in a variety of applications.
It was designed for:
- Replacing master section in existing consoles
- Stand alone monitoring & mastering
- For use with our own Super 8 mixer system
It also could be used for remote switching of shared sources in industrial or residential applications
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This page will also show you an example of control panels for the card system. There are currenlty 10 master section cards for use in the system.
4RU #0 Extender
4RU #1 Sixteen balanced Mono sources, switchable in mono or stereo. For use in monitoring of auxes or busses.
4RU #3 Five mic preamps for talkback and listenback / Stereo solo summing / Oscillator.
4RU #5 Source switching for studio & three cues.
4RU #6 Outputs for studio & three cues.
4RU #7 Balanced input for stereo buss for monitoring / Sum and trim offset for column source select / Summing for stereo solo.
4RU #8 Eight Balanced Stereo sources, switchable. Transformer or differential input. For use as column source select.
4RU #10 Stereo buss card. Also use for aux & buss amps in the Super 8 system.
4RU #12 Large system control room & studio source select.
4RU #13 Control room outputs or headphone amp.
4RU #15 Small system control room source select.
Below are pictures and description of all of the cards.
These cards were all designed to solve various monitoring needs for our own retrofit and custom console projects. These cards are available for purchase in any combination with or without control surfaces. For more information any of this please email us.
System cards fit in 4RU card frame or can be mounted in 2 RU chassis.
The input/output connector is a Sullins 36/72 pin dual row connector.
Audio power supply rails are +/-18 VDC
Relay voltage is 12VDC - all relays are fed DC and require a ground closure.
Logic voltage is 5VDC
Relay and logic voltage share ground.
For information about our discrete opamps and the way we lay them out,check out the opamp page.
4RU 0 Extender
Single piece or system price $125.

4RU #3 Five Mic preamps for talkback & Listen back/ Stereo solo summing / Oscillator.
Single piece or system price $300.

A typical control surface for 4RU #5 & #6
Voltage or current summing input opamp.
Insert send balanced on board with DRV134 IC or external output transformer.
Switchable insert return: Insert out, A return, B return.
Differential insert return.
Fader loop.
Output amp driving four outputs.
Two outputs balanced with Burr Brown DRV134 ICs, two outputs balanced with split winding off output transformer.
Card can also be used for buss or aux summing.
Available with mute, solo & with jumpers for talk back.
Single piece price $750


Inputs from control room pot and dim pot for isolated dim.
Outputs four pairs of speakers with trims selectable with BCD Decoder.
Isolated dim for control room
Dim function for talk back / listen back
Dim function available for Left and right separately for use in 5.1 system
Left, Right and Dual speaker cut.
Balanced output via output transformer or DRV134 IC.
Single piece price $650.

4RU 13 Headphone amp.
Same card as above but stuffed as Stereo headphone amplifier.
Left, Right, and dual cut.
Single piece price $200

4RU #15 Small System Control room source card.
Six balanced stereo inputs, available with trimmers.
Unbalanced Stereo solo input.
This card uses a three line BCD decoder for source selects.
Stuffed with transformer input with discrete class A emitter follower.
Mono summing amp is discrete class A also available IC.
Meter bufer with pick off at top of control room level.
This allows user to see whatever is selected to the control room.
Solo, mono, swap, two tracks.
Outputs for control room pot & dim pot.
Return for dim pot used with relative dim.
Single piece price $700.











