Yamaha CL3 digital mixing console

‌Yamaha CL3 digitaalne helimikserpult

The standards stay, but innovation never ends.

The pursuit of perfection is ongoing and will probably never end, but along the way Yamaha has introduced a number of innovations that have become industry standards offering performance and familiarity that discerning users continue to demand. By definition, “standards” are best kept as they are. With evolutionary refinements, of course. 

Yamaha CL series digital mixing consoles represent a new level of refinement. They offer an evolved experience in accessible mixing, plus sonic purity with sound shaping capabilities that will give the most imaginative engineer unprecedented creative freedom. The CL series embodies the leading standards in live sound in their most advanced, most expressive form.

Main Features

A creative console for expressive engineering.

Every engineer, artist, and audience agrees that sound quality is the bottom line. That’s a given. Through thorough analysis, review, and refinement of every detail of the circuitry and technology used, Yamaha CL series consoles deliver naturally superior sound plus a comprehensive range of “coloring” options that give the sonic craftsmen who will use them extraordinary creative freedom. The signal processors provided are plentiful and of the highest quality, including extraordinary Portico 5033/5043 EQ and compressor devices that bring Yamaha VCM technology together with the legendary talents of Rupert Neve. The platform is pure and natural, so the engineer can create and deliver the ideal sound.

Efficient, enjoyable operation.

A truly useful sound reinforcement console is one that can keep pace with the rapidly and dramatically changing demands of live sound applications. Efficient, intuitive operation is essential. Yamaha’s acclaimed Centralogic concept is the core of a refined user interface that offers a new, unprecedented level of operating efficiency in the CL series, from visual feedback right down to the form and feel of the faders and controls. The CL consoles are also ready for seamlessly integrated remote control and offline editing via an Apple iPad® or other computer. Control is familiar and intuitive, while at the same time offering extensive freedom.

Scalable, versatile network capabilities.

Network capabilities are rapidly becoming fundamental and indispensable in today’s fast-paced world of digital live sound. CL series consoles feature separate console and I/O rack components that communicate via the Dante™ network audio protocol, allowing fast, efficient design and deployment of capable systems from the most basic to the dazzlingly complex. The ability to add Lake® processing via expansion slots also adds to the system’s versatility and adaptability to the widest range of mixing needs.

Features

Creating the Ideal Natural Sound Platform

The full impact of the most advanced digital audio technology available has been applied throughout the CL series to deliver natural sound that provides a perfect foundation for the artist’s and engineer’s imagination. This type of sonic quality cannot be realized through specifications alone. Repeated listening evaluations and refinements by some of the most reliable ears and respected minds in the business are an indispensable part of the process. The CL series digital mixing consoles are proof that the time and effort involved have been well spent.

The Sound Is In the Details

The challenge begins right from the console’s inputs. In order to achieve the required level of sound quality, individual components, power supply, grounding, circuit layout, mechanical construction, and countless other details of the initial input stages must be selected and designed with the utmost care. Listening evaluation becomes an important part of the development process right from this first stage as well. Changing even a single electronic component can alter the sound in unexpected ways, and the tiniest variations must be noted and evaluated as development proceeds. Extreme measures have been taken to maximize AD and DA conversion performance as well, right down to making detailed spectral analyses of the AD/DA master clock and adjusting the FPGA clock signal routing so that the most natural, musical sound is achieved. Another critical part of any audio system is the power supply. Of course the capacity of the supply is important, but so are the types of capacitors used, and the grounding must be engineered to ensure the lowest possible impedance. The resultant sound is an eminently natural representation of the input signal, providing an ideal foundation for processing and effects that will lead to the final, polished sound.

Prodigious Quality & Creative Potential

In creating the best possible sound for a profusion of venues and artist requirements, sound engineers draw on their experience and imagination to make a multitude of practical as well as creative decisions. The engineer’s primary hands-on tool, the mixing console, must be able to accommodate them all. Of course the bottom line is sound quality, and this is just one of the areas in which the CL series consoles excel. They also feature some of the most advanced analog circuitry modeling technology available to add unprecedented character and shape to the sound as needed, while maintaining the utmost sonic quality.

A Digital Approach to Acclaimed Analog Quality

Rupert Neve is a legend. His contributions to the fields of audio recording and production began at the dawn of the era and continue to this day in the form of microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors, and mixing consoles that are the gold standards of professional audio. 

Clearly Mr. Neve is very serious about his sound, so it’s an honor that he and his company, Rupert Neve Designs, have officially recognized Yamaha’s original VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) technology as being the first of its kind that is capable of accurately modeling the rich, expressive analog sound they have championed for so long. With VCM technology, digital audio is at last capable of matching analog designs for sonic quality. 

VCM, developed by Toshi Kunimoto (“Dr. K”) and his team at Yamaha’s innovative “K’s Lab” division, is a circuit modeling concept that effectively simulates the most detailed characteristics of individual circuit components, right down to capacitors and resistors, resulting in astonishingly realistic circuit simulations that easily outclass conventional digital simulations. But accuracy isn’t the only consideration, musicality is essential as well, and VCM modeling delivers both. 

The CL series consoles come equipped with VCM models of the renowned Neve Portico 5033 equalizer and Portico 5043 compressor/limiter, both developed through close cooperation with Rupert Neve Designs. A valuable range of other VCM equalizers, compressors, and studio-quality effects is also included. You will hear the difference.

Revolutionary Dan Dugan Automatic Mixer Built In

Thanks to in-depth collaboration with Dan Dugan Sound Design, renowned Dan Dugan automatic microphone mixing with its advanced algorithms is built into the CL series consoles. Setup is easy: just insert the processor into up to 16 channels for automatically optimized microphone gain distribution. Gain control is smooth and natural, as though experienced human operators were doing the mix. The system also effectively reduces feedback and comb filter issues. For speech applications, especially non-scripted situations, this allows the operator to concentrate on details other than fader operation for consistently high-quality mixes.

Every Detail Designed for Optimum Operating Feel

Newly Designed Faders

No detail of form or function has been overlooked, right down to how the curvature of the elegant fader knobs comfortably fit the fingers at any angle. The fader knobs even have non-slip inserts that provide ideal friction for smooth, slip-free fades. Visibility is important too, so the knob edges are sculpted to provide a clear view of the fader scale from just about any angle.

Editable Channel Names and Colors

Editable channel name displays above each fader automatically switch to a larger character size for short names, and show pan and fader values as well. Below each channel name display is a color bar that illuminates in any of eight selectable colors, the same as those used in the central touch screen, for at-a-glance channel and group identification. Brightness can be adjusted for optimum visibility under any ambient lighting conditions.

Direct Access to the Parameters You Need

The User Defined Keys provided on Yamaha digital consoles are already a standard. The User Defined Knobs provided on the CL series consoles will quickly achieve the same status. Just about any of the console’s variable parameters can be assigned to the four User Defined Knobs for direct, instant access. Another advanced control feature is Custom Fader Bank selection, allowing the faders in each section to be instantly reordered as required.

Harmony in Form and Function

The sweeping form of the CL consoles is not only elegant, but it provides the best possible view of all controls and displays from the operator's position. The visual continuity from the Centralogic faders to the display is seamless. The hand rest is genuine oak with a gorgeous finish that matches the visual and tactile sophistication of the overall design.

Spetsifikatsioonid:

Mixing Capacity

• Input Mixing Channels: 64 mono + 8 stereo
  
• Mix Buses: 24
  
• Matrices: 8 (Input to Matrix supported)
  
• Stereo Bus: 1
  
• Mono: 1
  
• Cue: 1 (Second Cue Bus supported in CL V4.0 or later)

Local Connectors

• Analog Inputs: 8
  
• Analog Outputs: 8
  
• MY Slots: 3

• Dante I/O: Primary / Secondary
  
• Digital Out: 1 (AES/EBU)
  
• GPI: 5 in / 5 out (CL V1.11 or later) 5 in/5 out
  
• Word Clock I/O: Yes
  
• MIDI I/O: In / Out
  
• External Redundant PSU: Optional PW800W
  
• Meter Bridge: Optional MBCL
  
• Ethernet: Yes
  
• AC Inlet: V-Lock Type

Scene Memory

• Number of Scenes: 300
  
• Recall Safe: Yes
  
• Focus Recall: Yes
  
• Fade Time: Yes (0s ~ 60s)
  
• Preview: Yes (CL V1.51 or later)
  
• Selective Load / Save: Yes (CL V1.7 or later)
  
• Tactile Control Keys: Yes

Input Channel Functions

• Gain Compensation: Yes
  
• Digital Gain: Yes (-96dB ~ +24dB)
  
• ATT: -96dB ~ 0dB
  
• HPF: 20Hz ~ 600Hz, -6 or -12dB/oct Selectable (CL V1.51 or later)
  
• PEQ: 4 Band Full PEQ (RTA overlay support in CL V3.0 or later, New EQ Algorithms support in CL V4.0 or later)

• Dynamics 1: Gate / Ducking / Compressor / Expander (Key-in Filter on the Compressor and Expander in CL V4.0 or later)
  
• Dynamics 2: Compressor / Compander-H / Compander-S / De-esser
  
• Input Delay: Yes (0ms ~ 1000ms, frame delay support in CL V3.0 or later)
  
• Pan: CENTER NOMINAL or LR NOMINAL for monaural input channels in CL V3.1 or later 
  
• L-MONO, R-MONO or LR-MONO for stereo input channels in CL V3.1 or later
  
• DCA Group: 16 (Output DCA and DCA Roll-Out support in CL V2.0 or later, Scrollable DCA Roll-Out support in CL V4.0 or later)
  
• MUTE Group: 8
  
• Number of Inserts: 2 (CL V2.0 or later)
  
• Direct Out: Yes
  

Output Channel Functions

• PEQ: 4 Band Full PEQ (RTA overlay support in CL V3.0 or later, New EQ Algorithms support in CL V4.0 or later)
  
• Dynamics 1: Compressor / Expander / Compander-H / Compander-S
  
• MUTE Group: 8
  
• Number of Inserts: 2 (CL V2.0 or later)

Premium Rack

• Number of Premium Racks: 8
  
• Mountable Device: RND Portico5033 / RND Portico5043 / U76 / Opt-2A / EQ-1A / Dynamic EQ / Buss Comp 369 (CL V3.0 or later) / MBC4 (CL V4.0 or later)

Effect Rack

• Number of Effect Racks: 8
  
• Number of Effect Programs: 54
  
• Mountable Device: Effect / 31BandGEQ / Flex15GEQ / 8Band PEQ (CL V3.0 or later)

GEQ Rack

• Number of GEQ Racks: 16
  
• Mountable Device: 31BandGEQ / Flex15GEQ / Dugan Automixer (CL V3.0 or later) / 8Band PEQ (CL V3.0 or later) 
  
• (RTA overlay support in CL V3.0 or later, GEQ gain control from the TOUCH AND TURN knob in CL V4.0 or later)

Dante

• Number of I/O Channels: 64 in / 64 out
  
• Dante Patch from Console: Yes

Recording

• USB Memory Recording: Yes
  
• DVS Recording: Yes (DVS and Nuendo Live bundled)

Broadcast Functions

• 5.1 Surround Panning: Yes (CL V3.0 or later)
  
• Surround Monitor: Yes (CL V3.0 or later)
  
• Mix Minus: Yes (CL V2.0 or later)
  
• L-Mono / R-Mono / LR-Mono: Yes (CL V3.0 or later)

Monitor

• Solo Mode: Yes (CL V4.0 or later)
  
• Second Cue Bus (allows the MATRIX 7/8 to be used as a CUE B bus): Yes (CL V4.0 or later)
  
• Oscillator: Sine Wave 1ch / Sine Wave 2ch (CL V3.0 or later) / Pink Noise / Burst Noise

Other Functions

• Port to Port: No
  
• RTA: Yes (CL V3.0 or later)
  
• Output Port Delay: Yes (0ms ~ 1000ms, frame delay support in CL V3.0)
  
• Cascade: Yes (via MY slots)
  
• User Level: Yes
  
• Help File: Yes (CL V1.51 or later)
  
• Channel Link: Yes (Output Channel Link support in CL V3.0 or later)
  
• Channel Copy/Move: Yes
  
• Control & Monitoring for Digital Wireless Receivers: Shure ULXD4D/ULXD4Q (CL V4.0 or later)

User Interface

• Display: 10 inch Touch Panel
  
• Centralogic Section: Yes
  
• Faders: 16 + 8+ 2
  
• Selected Channel Encoders: Gain, HPF, PEQ (controls for 4 bands), Dynamics 1/2(Threshold only), Pan, Mix/Matrix Sends
  
• Channel Encoder: Yes (for Gain, Send Level, or an assigned parameter)
  
• Channel Name / Color Display: Yes
  
• Custom Fader Banks: Yes (customized for each fader section)
  
• User Defined Keys: 16 (x 4 banks in CL V3.0 or later)
  
• User Defined Knobs: 4
  
• Touch and Turn Knob: Yes (using a User Defined Knob)
  
• Monitor Level Knob: Yes
  
• Wooden Arm Rest: Yes
  
• iPad Stay: Yes
  
• Rack-mounting: No

Software

• Editor: CL Editor (Win/Mac, CSV files import/export in CL Editor V4.0.0 or later)
  
• StageMix: CL StageMix (iPad app)
  
• MonitorMix: Yes (CL V4.00 or later)
  
• Console File Converter: Yes (Win/Mac)

Sampling frequency rate

• Internal: 44.1kHz / 48kHz
  
• External: 44.1kHz: +4.1667%, +0.1%, -0.1%, -4.0% (±200ppm), 48kHz: +4.1667%, +0.1%, -0.1%, -4.0% (±200ppm)
  
• Signal delay: Less than 2.5ms, OMNI IN to OMNI OUT, Fs=48kHz
  
• Fader: 100mm motorized, Resolution=1024steps, +10dB to -138dB, -∞dB all faders
  
• Frequency response: +0.5, -1.5dB 20Hz-20kHz, refer to +4dBu output @1kHz, OMNI IN to OMNI OUT
  
• Total harmonic distortion: Less than 0.05% 20Hz-20kHz@+4dBu into 600Ω, OMNI IN to OMNI OUT, Input Gain = Min.
  
• Hum & Noise: -128dBu typ., Equivalent Input Noise, Input Gain=Max., -88dBu, Residual output noise, ST master off
  
• Dynamic range: 112dB typ.: DA Converter / 108dB typ.: OMNI IN to OMNI OUT, Input Gain = Min.
  
• Crosstalk: -100dB*1, adjacent OMNI IN/OMNI OUT channels, Input Gain = Min.
  
• Power requirements: US/Canada: 120V 60Hz, Japan: 100V 50/60Hz, China: 110-240V 50/60Hz, Korea: 220V 60Hz, Other: 110-240V 50/60Hz
  
• Power consumption: 170W: Internal Power Supply / 200W: Simultaneous use of Internal PSU and External PW800W

Others

• Temperature Range: Operating temperature range: 0 - 40°C, Storage temperature range: -20 - 60°C
  
• Mõõtmed: 839 x 299 x 667mm
  
• Kaal: 29 kg

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