SSL Introduces the "Live" Console to North American Market at 135th AES Convention

	SSL Live console

Solid State Logic, a manufacturer of creative tools for audio professionals, will introduce "Live," the first SSL console for live sound production, at the 135th AES Convention, October 17-20, in New York City in booth 2821. The Live combines SSL's signature audio quality and console ergonomic experience into a unique approach for live performance front of house and stage monitoring sound production, and the company says, promises to bring something very special to the live sound arena. Drawing on more than 35 years of analog and digital console innovation, the Live has inherited the DNA from multi-award winning consoles for music, broadcast, and post production that SSL has produced over time.

"Top artists, producers, and engineers have been asking us to develop a live sound console to match the rich, creative experience they enjoy in the studio using an SSL console," states Antony David, managing director at Solid State Logic. "The time has finally come for us to release 'Live' after several years of constant development and innovation. We believe Live is a console that engineers will fall in love with because of the lengths we have gone to with the design. The fresh approach with the Live literally redefines how a live performance console should sound combined with a control surface that helps the engineer to deliver exceptional performance. Much excitement has been generated since the Live was introduced at Musikmesse in Germany and we believe the industry in North America will embrace the console, too."

Live is suited to touring or installation, front-of-house or monitor systems for venues, arenas, houses of worship, and concert halls. Featuring complete flexibility and an intelligent user interface, it is ideal for any situation in which audio quality is important.

Based on SSL's new Tempest processing platform, Live is deployed in a uniquely versatile way. It offers 976 inputs and outputs and 192 full processing audio paths at 96kHz. How those paths are configured is extremely flexible with power allocated to channels, auxes, stem groups, and masters, configured to suit the needs of each show. All processing is built into the console surface as well as a collection of I/O connectivity built into the frame. A full range of Stagebox I/O connects to the console via MADI, with the potential for larger systems to make use of SSL's own Blacklight technology that carries up to 256 channels of bi-directional audio and control via a single fiber connection.

Live's control surface combines a tablet-style multi-gesture touch screen with elegant hardware ergonomics, excellent visual feedback, and a collection of innovative new features. It enables engineers to work exactly how they work today, whether they prefer new touch screen or classic hardware technology, or a combination of both, and offers new and better ways of doing things that will make the operator's life less stressful and more creative.

Impeccable audio quality is a primary design feature right through from studio-grade SuperAnalogue mic preamps, 24bit/96kHz A/D D/A conversion, to 64bit internal processing and 96kHz operation throughout. An array of channel processing tools bear the classic SSL tone, but bring a completely new level of precision, flexibility, and usability. Live features a collection of 30 new effects and audio analysis tools that take SSL's acclaimed studio-grade processing and re-crafts it for Live, with the additional benefit of giving the effects and analysis tools its own dedicated processing power.

Live is now shipping.