AVB (Audio Video Bridging, also known as Time Sensitive Networking, or TSN) is a collection of IEEE 802.1 networking standards that define a single digital network for transmitting audio, video, and other forms of data via “smart” switches that manage AVB traffic without compromising network integrity.

AVB networking allows you to connect many digital audio devices over long distances using CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable and route your audio anywhere on the AVB network with extremely low latency. A high-precision clock significantly reduces harmonic distortion and phasing, ensuring your audio stays clear and clean.

AVB Switches (such as the PreSonus SW5E PoE AVB switch) are an active part of the AVB network, throttling non-AVB traffic to ensure you always have enough bandwidth to carry your audio with extremely low latency. This means you get guaranteed low-latency audio performance regardless of other network traffic. These important benefits are only available with AVB networking.

Still curious about AVB networking? Check out our Learn section.

Designed exclusively for StudioLive digital mixers, Capture continues to be the most reliable and easiest-to-use live recording software. StudioLive Series III digital mixers provide all the advantages of Capture without the computer. Insert an SD card, press Record, and Capture does the rest, recording any selection of 34 streams from your StudioLive 32 digital mixer. In situations where you’d like to record fewer streams, Capture allows you to individually record-arm selected channels to simplify your Capture session further. Capture was created for live multitrack recording. No other digital audio workstation software makes recording as fast, simple and hassle-free, so you can focus on mixing the show.

Fat Channel processing on the StudioLive 32 digital mixer includes both input and output delays, highpass filter, gate, compressor, limiter, and fully parametric EQ on all channels. There are no limitations, no shared resources, no figuring out what processing is available where. You have all of the Fat Channel processing available at all times, with no compromises or caveats, along with a library of professionally crafted presets and the ability to save, selectively recall, and A/B-compare processor settings. In addition to Fat Channel processing, the StudioLive 32 digital mixer offers ten classic reverb and delay models that are available on four dedicated effects buses.

The StudioLive Series III Fat Channel also offers insert plug-ins that will be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever used a digital audio workstation software. Each input channel on the StudioLive 32 digital mixer is equipped with alternative vintage compressor and EQ models, allowing you to customize and sculpt the shape of each sound source. These State-space modeled Fat Channel plug-ins emulate the individual components of the original hardware, so they sound and behave just like the vintage EQs and classic compressor designs that are responsible for some of the most legendary sounds in the music industry.

Every Fat Channel plug-in model is available both onboard your StudioLive 32 digital mixer and inside Studio One, so you can use your favorite dynamics and EQs both on your mixer and in your DAW. Studio One native models are provided for free when you purchase additional Fat Channel Plug-in Collections.

The unique design of the dynamic Fat Channel found only on the StudioLive Series III digital mixers provides intuitive and detailed control to speed up your workflow and puts the most critical parameters for your mixing style at your fingertips. Eight digital scribble strips, encoders, and multicolored buttons, paired with a seven-inch touchscreen, deliver detailed information and offer amazingly fast navigation. In addition, the StudioLive Series III digital mixers’ exclusive, customizable Fat Channel User layer puts your eight most important channel-processing elements right on top.

The Digital Patching menu on the StudioLive 32 digital mixer has many applications, such as the ability to set up parallel processing and routing the same signal to multiple places on an AVB network. Here’s another useful application: Patch 16 of the StudioLive 32’s analog inputs to channels 1-16 to create a layer for front-of-house and set up separate patching and processing on for those same analog inputs on channels 17-32 to create a monitor layer. It’s like having a separate front-of-house and monitor mixer in one console. For more details on these and other applications for digital patching, see Power Tools: PreSonus StudioLive Series III tricks from the August 2018 issue of Front of House magazine.

PreSonus understands that great sound begins at the start of the signal chain. This is why we spent years perfecting our XMAX Class A mic preamp design. Equally at home in the studio or on stage, the XMAX design provides high headroom, low noise, wide dynamic range, and extended frequency response that you will instantly recognize by its musicality and transparency.

The Class A circuits in the XMAX design have no crossover distortion and deliver transparent audio. Backed by 30V power rails, the XMAX mic preamp delivers more headroom, deeper lows, smoother highs, and a richer overall sound. The discrete design of the XMAX microphone preamplifier ensures ultra-low noise and transparency. The net result is a mic preamp that lets mic’d signals shine through your mix without any coloration and sound as pure as their source.