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PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2

16-channel Mixer/FireWire Interface with 100mm Faders, Talkback, and 16 Class A XMAX Preamps

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PreSonus quality in a flexible mixer!

PreSonus offers up the StudioLive 16.4.2, one of the most powerful and flexible 16-channel digital mixers the world has seen. Boasting 16 high-headroom XMAX mic pres and a built-in 32x18 FireWire recording and playback engine, StudioLive is perfect for tracking bands in a live or studio situation. The "Fat Channel" offers 4-band EQ, compression, limiting, and gating on every channel, and there are DSP effects built-in. Save your settings for instant recall. Plus, Capture recording software is included with every StudioLive console.







PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 at a Glance:
  • Loaded with Racks of Effects
  • Powerful and Easy Digital Mixing
  • Fat Channel
  • Professional Sound Quality
  • Built-in 32x18 FireWire Recording

Loaded with Racks of Effects
StudioLive is loaded with everything needed for professional live sound production totaling 28 compressors, 28 limiters, 28 gates, 28 high pass filters, two stereo reverb/delays, two master stereo limiters and more, saving you loads of money and trips from the trailer during load in/out. All StudioLive digital effects are created and processed with 32-bit floating point precision for maximum sonic performance and enhanced musicality. StudioLive seamlessly integrates a professional digital mixer with a complete multi-channel recording system delivering the most creative environment available for both live performance and studio music production. Take your recording studio to the gig, and have your soundman record and even enhance your shows with the power of StudioLive.

Powerful and Easy Digital Mixing
StudioLive features an innovative and intuitive "QuickTouch" design allowing fast access to every parameter, mix, effect, and aux, allowing quick and creative control during music production. Load and save functions are also included to create snapshots of channel settings, save effect settings, totally recalling a mix, and more. All digital mixing and effects processing is done with 32-bit floating point precision for unmatched musicality.

Get creative in the studio. Record with or without Fat Channel or DSP effects processing. Create mixes, loops, sound effects and more, then bring them out to your show and mix them with the live performance. Process channels using your favorite plug-ins, and completely automate your entire show using your favorite music recording and production software. StudioLive completely revolutionizes music production opening endless creative possibilities.

Fat Channel and DSP Effects
The heart of StudioLive is the "Fat Channel" engaged by pressing any "select" button, and features extensive equalization and dynamics available to every input channel, every aux output, every subgroup output, and main output. High pass filter, and four-band semi-parametric equalization algorithms are based on PreSonus' custom-designed digital EyeQ equalizer, delivering extremely musical results. Also included in the Fat Channel are compressors, limiters and gates modeled after PreSonus' award-winning ACP88 for complete dynamics control.

Two programmable 32-bit stereo DSP effects engines are loaded in StudioLive with a wide range of reverbs, delays, and time-based effects with easy to use parameter adjustment, tap tempo, store, recall, and scene selection for ultimate creative flexibility. StudioLive allows you to save all of your digital settings for quick setup and recall. Save "scenes" (all settings), channel strips (Fat Channel), and individual DSP effects for ultimate ease, quickness and control.

Professional Sound Quality
StudioLive spares no expense when it comes to sound quality. All digital mixing is done with ultra high headroom 32-bit floating point processing for optimal sonic performance. Analog input and output is converted to digital audio with the highest-quality digital converters available delivering dynamic range of +118dB for spectacular sonic results and unmatched musicality.

Built-in 32x18 FireWire Recording
StudioLive includes PreSonus' award-winning FireWire technology with JetPLL synchronization delivering 32 channels of recording and 18 channels of simultaneous playback. Each FireWire recording channel can be set to record either pre or post Fat-Channel signal processing giving total flexibility and power. StudioLive can also return 18 FireWire playback channels from your recording and production software for remixing and live performance with pre-recorded tracks, as well as studio mixing using the mixer's internal signal processing and summing algorithms.

StudioLive 16.4.2 also ships complete with CAPTURE multi-track recording software so you can effortlessly record your shows right out of the box. CAPTURE software was designed to interface with StudioLive 16.4.2 perfectly to allow instant setup and recording of performances. With the look and feel of industry standard digital multi-track hard disk recorders, CAPTURE software is instantly familiar to every musician and engineer. StudioLive HDR software gives you full editing capability as well as export to wav file formats for compatibility with Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic, Sonar and all other recording and music production software. Or you can play back your recorded tracks into StudioLive 16.4.2 via FireWire and mix your tracks with the mixing power and capabilities of StudioLive 16.4.2, then record the final mix back to CAPTURE!

PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 Features:
  • 16 inputs, 6 auxiliary mixes, 4 subgroups
  • 16 class A XMAX microphone preamplifiers
  • Hi-Definition analog to digital converters (118dB dynamic range)
  • Unlimited headroom 32-bit floating point digital mixing and effects processing
  • 32x18 FireWire digital recording interface
  • Compact 19" rack-mountable rugged steel chassis
  • Fat Channel Select
  • 2 Master DSP Effects (reverbs, delays, time-based effect, with load/save)
  • Load/Save Mixer "Scenes" - all settings
  • 100mm long throw faders
  • Military grade quick touch push buttons
  • Fast-acting LED meters
  • Talkback communication system
  • "CAPTURE" multi-track recording software

Take control of your mixes with PreSonus' StudioLive 16.4.2!

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Reviews
based on 15 customer reviews

Solid Center Piece for any Studio

by David Johnson from Moore, OK
April 29, 2010
Music Background: Producer, Live & Studio Engineer
Used this console to replace both my M-audio 2626 and Presonus FS. My second engineer kept his M-audio 2626 so we can still use Pro-Tools, but since our customers prefer Sonar and Logic we see that un... read more [+]it collecting dust, cause the StudioLive is a BEAST.

Out of the box (got it the day of), we did a live TV show (think Story Tellers) and not only did it provide Awesome live sound, but the Pre\'s gave us transparent tracks to work with back at the studio. This is a must have. We plan on getting another to Daisy Chain. close [-]

Amazingly powerful!

by Jared Johnson from Grand Junction, CO
April 28, 2010
Music Background: Touring band, Live sound engineer, producer
This is hands down, the best digital mixer for the price out there.
It sounds incredible and has all the features you need to pull of a great mix for any small band/event/church. For an appropr... read more [+]iate sized gig where I don\'t need a ton of channels, I roll up needing nothing FOH but the mixer itself. It is very easy to use and the recording features are much more than just an afterthought, it can be used as an incredible recording interface. This mixer has proved to be one of the best purchases I have made in a while. close [-]

Spectacular

by Joe from New York, NY
April 2, 2010
Music Background: Engineer
Just awesome. Clean as can be. No noise whatsoever! Too much control per channel (EQ, gate, compression, etc) it really must be against some secret audio industry code to put this much power into s... read more [+]omeone\'s hands. We are so glad we chose this over an analog A&H. close [-]

Ebay all your rack gear and mixer to get this asap

by Howard Dohlen from Cambria ca
December 15, 2009
Music Background: hard rock soundman
Rubin was my sales rep A+. I run the Sound for a rock band that covers Tool, Rage and will also play soft rock all in one gig. The band members are always showing up with different EQ settings and lov... read more [+]e to turn up and down during the night . I do a full light show all thru the night with little time to spend riding the faders. My gear was mounting up in atempt to compress and dial in the EQ settings . Then I saw the Presonus Studiolive. I sold a rack full of gear and my 5th mixer to get this unit on faith that I would carry around less and sound better. Can this mixer do all this ? Yes. First - The preamps are worth the money alone. I dont run the vocals thru a 12ax7 tube any more. The Fat Channel should be called the super channel. THE GATES tighten up the stage and FOH sound. More effect without feedback. No stage talk bleeding between songs. No ambiant noise period.
THE COMPRESSORS . Our singer goes from loud to soft all night long . The compressor has no masked sound on peak compression. Thats the first time for me. I used two compressors to get this result before. THE PAR EQ. Ez to tune and has loads of features that work so well I can get warmth ,growls, clears,Not once have I wanted to get any other sound prosessing equipment sence. 2 CHANNEL EFFECTS You can do anything during a gig on the fly all night long with huge crowd responce. I have bought ,tried and sold alot of top brand gear and the presonus does as good of a job and in a lot of cases much better plus it is all in one location. I would need a 12 foot rack to house all the gear to equal what you will get with this one unit. Pull up Presonus studiolive on youtube and see how great and ez this unit is. One last thing for all live bands get the cabs off the stage floor.
Thanks Presonus, Sweetwater and Rubin.
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A True Fan

by TonyT from Kinnelin, NJ
October 1, 2009
Music Background: Live Sound Engineer,Recording Engineer, Live Broadcasting
The move from my A&H analog board was a very tough decision. That board was an extension of my arm for years. Made the swith and no regrets on my decision at all! Clean warm sound and all the goodie... read more [+]s also. The fat channel is a dream come true as all of my outboard gear is now on ebay. close [-]
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