Yamaha DM3 Compact Digital Mixing Console With Dante or Standard Non Dante Version

Yamaha's DM3 series of compact mixing consoles is available in two models, the DM3 is the first compact console to be fully compatible with Dante technology and the DM3S Standard without Dante capability. Both models offer superb sound quality, fast and easy setup and operation and professional level features for live sound, streaming and live or home recording and music production.

Compact design is often associated with limitations and in the sound reinforcement world often implies compromises in functionality, connectivity or sound quality, sometimes all three. Until now. The new DM3 Series of mixing consoles offer superb sound quality, fast and easy setup and operation with professional level features for live sound, streaming and live or home recording and music production. This is a combination unmatched in any other mixing console this size.

In an ever changing world that constantly presents new challenges as well as opportunities, DM3 mixing consoles give you the power and flexibility to do more with than you ever imagined with a compact digital console.

The DM3 Series comprises two models, the DM3 Standard and the DM3, the first compact console to be fully compatible with Dante technology, allowing for faster and easier setup with multiple devices. Both consoles feature a multi language user interface that can be configured to make operation simple and trouble free for users with different backgrounds and varying skill levels. Equally at home in a live performance venue or your home studio, it’s easy to imagine taking a DM3 Series console to a gig, recording and streaming the audio and then taking it home for editing as part of your DAW setup. Alternatively, you could use it as a main mixer for a small performance one day, and as a sub mixer for live streaming the next

All the possibilities are endless. The ideal starting point for any audio engineering endeavour is transparent, uncoloured sound. All Yamaha mixers are built on that philosophy, with the goal of allowing engineers to capture the onstage sound accurately, without coloration and then add creative touches as required. Capable of sampling rates as high as 96 kHz despite its compact size the DM3 Series continues this legacy of sonic purity, offering you the perfect starting point for mixing, recording, live streaming, or even installed applications.

The most significant advantage of a digital console is the ease of operation and accessibility of powerful functions and features that would otherwise require a higher level of user experience as well as more outboard gear to actualise in an analogue setup. The DM3 Series exemplifies a “less is more” design ideals, using a 9” touchscreen and a single ‘Touch and Turn’ knob for managing most of the console’s operations, resulting in a user experience reminiscent of a smartphone.

The DM3 Series comes equipped with two high quality multi effects processors featuring eighteen types of high grade effects including the REV HD and REV R3 offer sound engineers the freedom to craft a sound that accurately reflects their own sonic sensibilities. This is the first of its kind in Yamaha mixers.

The Yamaha R&D team has worked extensively to develop a selection of optimised QuickPro Presets™ for a wide variety of microphones and output equipment. With these practical pre-sets even the novice engineer can get very close to the ideal sound, while experienced engineers will appreciate the significant time savings they offer. Yamaha has prepared more than 200 pre-sets for input channels, covering everything from vocals to drum sets all precisely tuned using a wide range of actual microphones and instruments. For output channels they developed pre-sets for a variety of speaker systems and in-ear monitors such as Ultimate Ears with several variations to match different environments and room sizes. All of these can be used ‘as is’ when time is tight, but they are also great starting points for manual fine tuning. Setups created from the pre-sets or from scratch can also be saved as additional pre-sets. Live streaming brings with it unique technical demands that are often a challenge to accommodate without additional outboard gear and the space it requires.

The DM3 Series comes equipped with a USB connection that lets you go live in an instant, paired with a condensed suite of features such as matrices, flexible patching, and factory pre-sets that are aimed specifically at making live streaming seamless and trouble free. The compact design also makes the DM3 Series ideally suited to multi console configurations where it would take on a live streaming role while the other console is used for onsite mixing.

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