Tierra Audio Canyon 16 | Summing Mixer

Overview

The Tierra Audio Canyon 16 Summing Mixer lets you inject the unrivalled character and tone of pure analog ue hardware circuitry into your recordings.

A must-have for the modern producer or mixing engineer, your audio will travel through separate circuits within the Canyon to produce the unmistakable sound, feel and depth to your tracks through expertly calibrated transformers and hand-built components.

Meticulously designed, the Canyon takes your sound from sterile and lifeless to three-dimensional and crystal clear with well-defined bass, mellow mid-range and articulate high-end.

A simple yet elegant solution to transform your sound, 16 channels of mono audio are available to route through individual instruments or busses to give your sound the professional edge it needs to stand out from the crowd, with a level and pan knob per-channel to have complete control over your sound.

Open the doors to sonic experimentation with the INSERT jack featured within Canyon. This gives you the opportunity to route through your favourite hardware processors into Canyon and process your mix through these.

With this function, you can patch in your favourite compressors or distortion units and using the built-in blend dial, process them in parallel for spectacular sonic destruction.

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Seamless integration

With the inclusion of the INSERT jack, Canyon lets you patch in your favourite other rack equipment and effects to processes alongside your mix, whether that's EQ, compression, transient designers or anything else you may need to spice up your mix.

However, the experimenting doesn't stop there!

Canyon features a blend control, allowing you to control the precise amount of dry to wet signal with your external equipment.

This allows you the perfect opportunity to include industry tricks such as parallel compression to your mix, whereby you can heavily compress your signal and blend on a small percentage of it to your signal, giving you a huge amount of punch, sustain and consistency to your mix without over-compressing.

Best of both worlds

Step out of the realm of completely in-the-box, digital processing and add in the warmth and character of high-quality analogue processors to your mixes.

Although leaps and bounds have been made in the world of digital emulations and digital recreations of revered analog equipment, there's nothing like the sound and feel of a world-class analogue circuit for your music.

Canyon offers a simple solution for routing your finished production through world-class analogue components to add musical, even harmonics, linear phase distortion and depth that can only be found with analogue hardware.

With this one unit, you can transform your sound from small and laser-precise to larger than the life with bounds of character to compete with your reference tracks of world-class mixing and engineers and producers.

Mixer bus direct access

If you're interested in what Canyon has to offer but feel it won't be enough to cover some of the projects you are involved in, then fear not, a Mix input/output allows you to link several Canyons together up to 48 channels in the same mix bus!

With this, you won't need to compromise and bus instruments together, you can freely let individual tracks go through the Tierra Audio Canyon and achieve the wonderful character of the analogue circuitry.

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Features

• Link up to three Canyons together for larger projects
• Provides your tracks with the signature sound of analog hardware
• Insert external hardware and process in parallel
• Hand-made in Madrid, Spain using premium components and parts
• Through-hole components to reduce electronic friction for near-zero background noise
• Audio-optimised Triad Magnetics transformer for a stable and precise power stage
• Two accurate and fast VU meters to monitor gain levels
• Gold plated connectors for immaculate audio transfer
• Ethically sourced cherry wood front plate provides stunning visual appearance
• Constructed from lightweight and durable aluminium
• Corrosion resistant and thermally insulated
• Environmentally friendly packaging
• Laser-etched front and back panels
• Each Canyon is individually inspected and tested before shipping to ensure quality control, documents will be provided with technical measurements of your unit
• For every device sold, a tree will be planted to give back to nature

Specifications

• Line output maximum output: +26 dBu 0.1% THD
• THD Distortion: 20 dBu output, less than 0.05% in the range of 40 Hz to 10 kHz.
• Frequency response: From 20 Hz to 20 kHz (-0.5 dB)
• Harmonic distortion: 20 dBu output, 60 Hz 0.03%, 1 kHz 0.01%, 10 Khz 0.05%.
• Background noise (Noise floor): Less than 100 dBu
• Signal to noise ratio (SNR): Greater or equal to 105 dBu
• Channels: 16 mono channels with individual volume and pan control
• Power source: Two configurable voltage settings: 110V AC60Hz and 220V AC50Hz
• Operating temperature range: Between 0 and 40 Celsius
• Power source fuse: 500 mA