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VDC's 'YouSpec'
Online Ordering
V

DC Trading Limited, the London
based company behind the
prestigious Van Damme cable
brand, has announced an additional
feature to its online ordering system,
designed for users of video and
broadcast cable.
The online 'YouSpec' system has
already proved to be a great success
with the audio industry, allowing web
visitors to design, specify, price-up
and order completely bespoke cable
solutions - 24 hours a day, every day.
Now that service is also available for
buyers of video cable assemblies
from single cables to multicores.
Accessible from the desktop but
also designed to support mobile
working via tablet computers,
the site now features a separate
'video' gateway.
Niall Holden, VDC's CEO said:
"As with the audio cables, clients
can now specify Van Damme video
cable including the colour, the exact

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length, the connectors, the boots,
the labelling and so on as required
and we will manufacture their design
and ship it directly to them."
He continued: "Or, the customer
can save the design for review later
as they spec out their next job."
Whilst the customer has the
ultimate ﬂexibility across a range
of parameters YouSpec will not allow
dangerous designs to be developed.
However, if customers get stuck
for an idea, the Head Space section
of the website will offers details
of VDC's technical expertise and
capabilities and also the outline of
some of the great solutions that
have been built for other customers.
VDC's existing trade customers
can also log-in and access their
own account details and terms,
purchase order history in addition
to reviewing saved technical designs
and solutions.
A video cable solution designed on YouSpec

Compact Yamaha QL Series Digital Mixing Consoles
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amaha's new QL series digital
mixing consoles deliver all the
audio quality, processing power
and ﬂ exibility of the company's
acclaimed CL series, but in a size
and with local I/O facilities aimed
at smaller scale installations like
OB vans and events where space
is a consideration.
A n d w i t h D a n D u g a n 's
revolutionary auto-mixing
capability provided as standard,
the QL series is perfect for multiplemicrophone applications like radio
and television talk shows.
The QL series comprises two
models, the QL1 and QL5. The
QL1 features 16 inputs and eight
outputs in a 468mm wide chassis,
with the QL5 32 ins/16 outs,
measuring 828.4mm wide. The QL1
has 32 mono and eight stereo input
channels, with

the QL5 64 mono and eight stereo.
QL consoles are ideal for smallto-medium sized installations and
productions on their own, however
onboard Dante networking allows
them to be integrated into bigger
systems with Yamaha's R-series
I/O units and CL series consoles.
Up to eight R-series units can be
simultaneously controlled by a QL
console, offering as many as 256
input sources.
The new Port to Port facility
gives CL Series mixers access to
the onboard connections of QL
consoles, allowing them to be used
as external i/o and for precisely
scalable audio solutions to be
created. Auto Gain Compensation
can be applied to the QL Series
head amps as well as R-series
I/O units, allo wing two or more
QL & CL Series consoles to share

Yamaha's QL Series digital mixing consoles

inputs without fear of unexpected
level changes.
Adding the Dugan-MY16 auto
microphone mixing card to existing
Yamaha digital mixing systems
has proved hugely popular in the
broadcast industry, but with the QL
series the technology is included
with the consoles as standard.
Further onboard audio
processing includes the QL
Effects Rack and the Premium
Rack, the latter incorporating
legendary effects like the Rupert
Neve Portico 5033 EQ and 5043
Compressor. Two onboard MiniYGDAI expansion slots also allow
QL series consoles to add further
(external) processing, additional
local i/o and to interface with other
audio networking formats.
The ergonomic user interface
includes 'Touch and Turn'

technology, a highly responsive
colour touch screen and array
of user deﬁ nable buttons, high
quality faders and editable, backlit
channel name displays with
assignable colour bars.
Two track recording and playback
functions are provided and the QL
series is fully compatible with Dante
Virtual Soundcard and Steinberg
Nuendo Live software, making high
quality, multitrack live recording
straightforward.
A QL version of the StageMix
iPad remote control app and a fullyﬂedged online / ofﬂine editor for
Windows and Mac, QL Editor, are
also available.
The QL series is the ideal
compact mixing console or as part
of a bigger, Dante-based system.
Offering remarkable ﬂexibility, QL
is The Quintessential Compact.

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