DiGiCo has introduced the Quantum112, a new single-screen, 12-fader mixing desk that’s the smallest and newest addition to the family and the company’s first true flypack mixer.
Designed to fit within a Pelican Air 1637 case, the console, when packed, weighs 50 pounds, qualifying it as a standard checked bag option on most flights. It offers 80 input channels with 24 aux/subgroup busses, LR/LCR master buses, and a 12×8 matrix, all with full channel processing. Twelve control groups plus two solos are also available.
A 17-inch, 1000-nit, high-brightness multitouch screen with both a meterbridge and soft quick select buttons is designed to foster fast, efficient operation. The Quantum112 is additionally equipped with 18 individual TFT channel displays to provide clear user feedback and interaction. Beneath the main display are a dozen newly-sourced 100 mm touch-sensitive faders.
It incorporates now-familiar Quantum range features like Mustard Processing channel strips (20), Spice Rack plugin style native FPGA processing options (six), and Nodal Processing (24). Twelve graphic EQs are further available, as are eight FX Rack slots.
Other highlights include Stadius 32-bit ADC and DAC conversion, dual DMI slots, and a host of I/O options, including Dante (64 channels in and 64 channels out at both 48 kHz and 96 kHz), MADI (redundant or single), optional optics, AES, local connections (16 analog inputs and eight outputs), and more.
“Our new Quantum112 is a brilliant illustration of the idiom, ‘Good things come in small packages,’” says DiGiCo managing director Austin Freshwater. “We originally tasked our R&D team to create a rack-mountable Quantum console to replace the SD11, which is now 14 years old, and they absolutely outdid themselves. Not only is the Quantum112 rackable, but it’s also small and light enough when cased to be under the magic size and weight numbers when traveling by air.”
“The initial brief really challenged our team, driving us to research new materials, optimize design techniques, and inversely shrink topologies while increasing performance,” adds DiGiCo head of research and Development Michael Aitchison. “Our previously smallest console, the SD11, weighs 24 kilograms [53 pounds] without packaging, and 73 kilograms [161 pounds] when flight-cased, so it wasn’t a proper flypack product. The new Quantum112 is nearly 70 percent lighter, but still incredibly solid, and far more powerful. We’re extremely proud with how it has turned out and suspect that our customers will be quite pleased with it, too.”
