Cranborne Audio 500ADAT 8-Slot 500 Series Rack & ADAT Expander Kit with Two Camden 500 Preamp/Mojo Modules

Connect the 500ADAT from Cranborne Audio to the ADAT expansion ports on your audio interface and incorporate 500 series modules into your studio's tracking and mixing capabilities. The versatile unit functions as an 8-slot 500 series rack, 8-channel ADAT expander, analog summing mixer, and zero-latency artist mixer built into a 4 RU chassis.

• Transform your ADAT-equipped audio interface into an analog powerhouse by adding 8 channels of expansion at up to 96 kHz or 4 channels of expansion at 192 kHz.
• The 500ADAT combines a high-current 8-slot 500 series chassis with digital conversion and ADAT, a powerful and accessible way to get your favorite 500 series modules into your tracking and mixing digital workflow.
• The unit features essential functions that unite digital and analog production workflows, such as an 8-into-2 analog summing mixer, zero-latency artist mixer with 2 reference-quality headphone outputs, and true ADAT & SMUXII/IV transmission.

Seriously High-Powered Headphone Amps

Drive your headphones with 500ADAT's reference-quality headphone amplifier with enough power to drive low-impedance headphones with plenty of headroom and a linear frequency response to below 1 Hz. The two headphone outputs feature independent blend and level controls.

Zero-Latency Artist Mixer

Get your hands back onto the mix by using 500ADAT's two aux busses to create pristine-sounding analog artist mixes that can be blended with DAW playback, and sent to your musicians with zero-latency, physical level/pan controls per channel, and aux input blend controls.

Discrete Summing Mixer

Give your mix the final bit of analog character and send instrument groups and stems back-through your 500 series modules and into the discrete analog summing mixer to be sent back into your DAW.

Configurable Front End

Mix and match your 500 series modules to find the best combinations during recording, and mixing to help create your own signature analog sound.

Enough I/O for Any Hardware

The 500ADAT is designed to integrate with all of your analog and digital hardware. Patch in the 500ADAT with your own converter or integrate your 19" rack gear with dedicated TRS insert jacks per slot.

Source Select

Re-patch your 500ADAT at a flick of a switch. Dedicated source select switches for each 500 series slot adjusts the signal routing to send analog, C.A.S.T. or USB sources through each of your modules.

No Modules? No Problem

Bypass unused 500 series slots using 500ADAT's dedicated slot-bypass switch and you can use all of the available analog paths for recording whilst you continue to build your 500 series collection.

More Recording Channels

• When you want more 500 series connectivity, you can use up to two 500ADATs with some interfaces or pair the 500ADAT with the 500R8 (available separately). Connect the 500R8 and 500ADAT together via ADAT, and now you have 16 channels of 500 series modules to work with during recording and mixing. Whilst 500ADAT offers the same performance as 500R8, any third-party ADAT expander is also compatible.
• Play back instrument groups/stems into all 16 available 500 series slots for summing using the C.A.S.T. link connector.

8 Channel A/D-D/A Converter

• 8-in/8-out at 44.1 to 48 kHz
• 8-in/8-out at 88.2 to 96 kHz
• 4-in/4-out at 176.4 to 192 kHz

High-Performance A/D-D/A Conversion

• Dynamic range: 121 dB A-weighted, AES17 method, 20 Hz to 20 kHz
• Frequency response: -1 dB, 2.2 Hz to >80 kHz
• THD+N: <0.00032% (-110 dB) at -4 dBFS, 20 Hz to 40 kHz, 1 kHz, A-weighted
• Max I/O level: +24 dBu

Master Reference-Quality Internal Clock

• <0.5ps of jitter
• Dedicated word clock input and output via BNC
• External sync options using word clock BNC or ADAT

Analog Summing Mixer

• 8-into-2 analog summing mixer with +26.5 dBu of headroom and balanced 1/4" jack outputs
• C.A.S.T. link port for increasing summing mixer to 16-into-2 using Cranborne Audio 500ADAT

High-Current 8-Slot 500 Series Rack

• 250mA current per-slot with 2A total for all slots
• XLR inputs, XLR line outputs, and TRS inserts (pre-ADC) per 500 series slot
• Module source switching options to send analog, USB, or external C.A.S.T. signals through your favorite 500 series modules
• Module bypass switches per-slot allowing 500ADAT to be used without 500 series modules inserted.

C.A.S.T. Compatible

C.A.S.T. ports per channel for relocating analogue I/O around studio using passive or active C.A.S.T. breakout boxes via standard shielded Cat 5

24V, 5A External Locking Power Supply

External power supply for improved analog audio performance and heat dissipation

Designed and Engineered in the UK

Each and every 500ADAT is extensively tested by a team of dedicated engineers to ensure reliability and consistency.

Key Features

• Fully discrete, transformerless design, featuring custom ?Camden? preamp topology
• Optimized for and fully compliant with the 500-series format, Camden 500 is not a 19? unit shoe-horned into a 500-series module, it has been designed from the ground-up to perform under the low-voltage power rails and supply current limitations of the 500-series format, whilst delivering groundbreaking performance
• Performs at the near-theoretical limits of noise, distortion, and phase/frequency linearity at all gain settings
• Optimized input impedance and input headroom for Mic, Line, and Hi-Z sources
• Mic preamp, instrument DI, and?thanks to Mojo?line-level analog saturator
• Custom ?Mojo? analog saturation circuit with variable control, true bypass, and 2 discrete styles?Thump and Cream
• Reamp tracks from your DAW through Mojo to apply analog saturation to your stems, VST, and stereo mixes
• Thump excites low-end content by boosting lower odd/even harmonics from a range of 160 to 20 Hz and below
• Cream boosts odd/even harmonics, whilst also reducing the amplitude of the fundamental frequencies and applying typical transformer-style transient taming
• Gold flashing on backplane contacts for increased conductivity and durability
• Designed and engineered in the United Kingdom

Precise, Clean, and Natural

Camden 500 provides the utmost clarity and detail when it is most required. Its custom 'Camden' topology achieves stunning low-noise and low-distortion performance. It also sets a new standard for frequency and phase linearity. The sum result is the most natural sounding preamp you've ever heard.

Vintage, Warm, and Colored

Camden 500 features "Mojo", a custom analog saturation circuit that transforms Camden 500 into the fattest, warmest, and most colorful mic preamp in your arsenal. Designed to introduce harmonics and saturation effects that our favorite vintage gear produces, Mojo can be subtle, it can be exaggerated, but best of all, it can be bypassed.

Impeccable Modern Clean Performance

Designed from the ground up by the director of engineering, Edward Holmes, Camden 500 was created to be the ultimate recording front-end for the modern studios and withstand the rigors of modern workflow and production techniques. Designed to excel with any input source, Camden 500 features a completely original, custom-designed preamp topology that achieves stunning low-noise and low-distortion performance and frequency/phase linearity at any gain setting from unity to 68.5 dB.

• Stepped gain control
  • Camden 500 features a premium, 12-way switch gain control that applies up to 68.5 dB of clean, transparent preamp gain in 5.5 dB steps. This makes it easy to recall gain settings and easy to match the gain of two Camden 500's for stereo applications.
• Stereo matched
  • With carefully selected modern components, any two Camden preamps are completely stereo matched to within 0.1 dB. Every Camden preamp also passes through a rigorous frequency response test at the factory that ensures it performs the same as the last.
• Progressive-slope high-pass filter
  • Camden's high-pass filter features a progressive slope where low end is rolled off initially at around 6 dB/octave and then increases to 12 dB for the lowest octave, preserving the low end you want and cutting what you don't.
• 3-way input type switch
  • Tailored input impedance and headroom for Mic, Line, and Hi-Z sources means punchy and full-range line recording with +26.5 dBu of input headroom as well as alive and natural sounding DI'd instruments with its unique BJT design and 1.5-megohm input impedance.

Vintage Mojo on Tap

For moments when you want that gooey, vintage vibe on your recordings, Cranborne developed Mojo, their own custom analog saturation circuit that adds the familiar tone of transformers, valves, and vintage equipment onto your Camden's preamps for recording or mixing. Record through Mojo to add that vibe on the way into your DAW, or add the Mojo during the mix phase. Mojo adds tons of analog saturation to all audio signals.

Thump

• Excites low-end content by adding harmonics to the signal in the 20 to 100 Hz range, resulting in fuller low-end on smaller speakers. As Thump is not EQ-based, the additional harmonic content is shaped by the source and its existing low-end frequency content, resulting in a natural addition of extra ?Thump?.

Cream

• Introduces a vintage smoothness and edge that is similar to how valves and tubes impact the sound of a preamp. Cream drastically increases harmonics and dynamically smooths-out the low mids for increased HF emphasis. Like Thump, Cream is completely dynamic and will vary its effect, based on the input level and source material.

Variable

• Unlike transformer or valve preamps, Mojo is variable and can be dialed in to taste. Transformers and valves are integral parts of certain preamp designs and so cannot be removed from the signal path or altered for different effects. Mojo on the other hand can be dialed in to taste or crucially bypassed when you need a clean and pristine recording.

Vintage vibe without compromise

• Transformers and valves sound great, but they have a flavor that can't be removed. The phase shift, noise, and THD added by these designs give them their sound, but that sound sometimes isn't always suited to a particular source. Camden gives you 3 discrete tonal flavors that allow it to excel on any source or instrument.

Inputs/Outputs

Power