DHD.audio has launched a new broadcast sound production platform, the MX3 console range, showing it at IBC.
“MX3 retains the modularity, operational versatility and expandability of DHD’s established Series 52 models while adding new capabilities to support the fast-changing production workflows in what the EBU has termed the Dynamic Media Facility,” the company said in the release.
It said the design allows features to be added through gradual investment in specific modules rather than total system replacement.
MX3 consoles are compatible with the external digital processing cores of DHD systems.
The line is compatible with AES67, Dante, Ravenna and SMPTE 2110 protocols to handle large channel capacities. MX3 adds secure standard IP networking between desktop control panels and local or remote signal processing cores, replacing the audio/power/control protocol used in Series 52 systems.
Each MX3 module is a self-contained network device, linked via Ethernet with PoE+ along one cable per console column. Consoles are assembled from these building blocks, “typically a central module with six-fader expansion modules in a frame supplied with or without over-bridge modules, plus optional displays mounted above the over-bridge.”
Modules can be added, exchanged or repaired in operation, and the assignment between console and processing core is not fixed.
