Streamlined speaker control for pros on a budget!

Minidrive provides all four core functions of the Omnidrive range: crossovers (Linkwitz-Riley, Bessel or Butterworth), mid-band limiters, equalisation freely assignable to inputs and outputs, and both input and output delay. However, by leaving out the more advanced features in the Omnidrive, BSS has achieved dramatically lower prices, ensuring that Minidrive is suitable for a range of applications for which an Omnidrive would simply not have been affordable.

BSS Audio recommends the FDS-334T for pro audio use in the monitor rack. Up to 38 bands of filtering are available in each unit. As an added bonus, the Minidrive can be controlled by SIASoft's Smaart Live analysis program, allowing the installer or engineer to create systems with integrated measurement and processing.

Individual Minidrive outputs can also be run full range. With the low price of the units, this means that they are highly suited to use as zone controllers for convention centres, ballrooms, under-balcony feeds or downfills with EQ and delay, or for replacing several traditional analogue units in an installed sound system in just one rack space. BSS has provided Minidrive with a similar user interface to its big brother the FDS-366T "Omnidrive Compact Plus".

The four-arrow "navipad" allows access to menus and facilties, while push-to-select switches on the output level controls ensure fast access to channels for editing. Data is shown on a bright blue LCD display, with data entry via a parameter wheel. Input and output level meters are an immediate comfort for the engineer, and individual output band mute keys are provided. Together, these make the Minidrive more convenient and faster to set up and adjust than any DSP unit in its class.

For program archiving and storage, BSS Audio recommends MINISTORE, a PC application that allows you to dump programs from your Minidrive to a PC, arrange them and download any or all programs to any similar Minidrive unit. Minidrive provides all four core functions of the Omnidrive range: crossovers (Linkwitz-Riley, Bessel or Butterworth), mid-band limiters, equalisation freely assignable to inputs and outputs, and both input and output delay. However, by leaving out the more advanced features in the Omnidrive, BSS has achieved dramatically lower prices, ensuring that Minidrive is suitable for a range of applications for which an Omnidrive would simply not have been affordable. BSS Audio recommends the FDS-334T for pro audio use in the monitor rack. Up to 38 bands of filtering are available in each unit. As an added bonus, the Minidrive can be controlled by SIASoft's Smaart Live analysis program, allowing the installer or engineer to create systems with integrated measurement and processing. Individual Minidrive outputs can also be run full range. With the low price of the units, this means that they are highly suited to use as zone controllers for convention centres, ballrooms, under-balcony feeds or downfills with EQ and delay, or for replacing several traditional analogue units in an installed sound system in just one rack space. BSS has provided Minidrive with a similar user interface to its big brother the FDS-366T "Omnidrive Compact Plus". The four-arrow "navipad" allows access to menus and facilties, while push-to-select switches on the output level controls ensure fast access to channels for editing. Data is shown on a bright blue LCD display, with data entry via a parameter wheel. Input and output level meters are an immediate comfort for the engineer, and individual output band mute keys are provided. Together, these make the Minidrive more convenient and faster to set up and adjust than any DSP unit in its class. For program archiving and storage, BSS Audio recommends MINISTORE, a PC application that allows you to dump programs from your Minidrive to a PC, arrange them and download any or all programs to any similar Minidrive unit.

The FDS-334T effectively and economically manages all the key elements of speaker performance. Order today and be amazed at how versatile your speaker setup can be!

BSS Audio FDS-334T Minidrive Loudspeaker Management System 2x4 Specifications:

• Input Section
• Input Impedance: 10kOhm, electronically balanced
• Maximum Input Level: +20dBu
• CMRR: Better than 50dB (30Hz-20kHz)
• Input Connector: XLR-3F or equivalent
• Pin 1 Floating (no connection)
• Pin 2 Signal +ve (Hot)
• Pin 3 Signal -ve (Cold)
• Output Section
• Output Impedance: <50 Ohms, electronically balanced & floating
• Maximum Output Level: +20dBu into 600 Ohms or greater
• Output Gain: +/-21dB, variable in 0.2dB steps
• Output Connector: XLR-3M or equivalent
• Pin 1 Ground
• Pin 2 Signal +ve (Hot)
• Pin 3 Signal -ve (Cold)
• Transformer balancing optional
• Crossover Filters
• Slopes: 6, 12, 18, 24, or 48dB per octave (Filter type dependant)
• Type: Bessel, Butterworth, Linkwitz-Riley or WHISEWORKS — NTM
• Delays: Available on Inputs A and B, and Outputs 1-4 (FDS-334T) / Outputs 1-6 (FDS-336)
• Delay Step: 20 microseconds minimum
• Max Delay Time: 628ms on inputs, 635 ms on outputs
• EQ
• Maximum number of EQ filters: 37 (depending on crossover slopes)
• EQ Type: Parametric, Bell or shelving on any filter
• EQ Gain: +/-15dB, variable in 0.2dB steps
• EQ freq: 15Hz-20kHz
• General Performance (filters out)
• Freq. Response:
• 10Hz - 20kHz, +/-0.25dB
• Dynamic range: >108dB, unweighted 22Hz to 22kHz
• Channel Separation: >80dB, unweighted 20Hz - 20kHz
• Distortion (THD): <0.01%, 20Hz - 20 kHz @ +10dBu input level
• Input metering: 'SIG' present, -3dB, 0dB, +3dB, +6dB, +12dB, Clip Relative to clip point (+20dBu)
• Output Metering: SIG (-40dB), -20dB, -12dB, -6dB, -3dB, LIMIT, Over (+6dB) Relative to limiter threshold setting
• Dimensions: 1.75" x 19" x 8" (44.4mm x 483mm x 203mm)
• Weight: 6.2lbs (2.8kg), unpacked
• AC Power: 90V-264V AC, 50/60Hz, 30VA