Phoenix Audio
Phoenix Audio Nicerizer
Phoenix Audio Nicerizer
Warsaw Showroom
Nowogrodzka 6
102
00-513 Warszawa
Polen
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Phoenix Audio Nicerizer is a sixteen channel Class-A analogue summing mixer. Discrete, transformerless input stages feed two mix busses and a DSOP-2 output stage carrying a pair of custom-wound DB694 transformers.
Sixteen channels leaving the computer
Summing inside the box is mathematically correct, and that is exactly why it sounds flat: everything sits on the same plane. The Nicerizer takes sixteen tracks or stems out to separate analogue inputs, where each signal passes its own Class-A stage before it reaches the bus. What you hear is not equalisation but depth: instruments spread front to back and peaks stop clumping together. Every channel has its own detented pan control, so the stereo image is built in analogue rather than in the faders of a DAW.
Stereo width and a Drive button per channel
The width control runs in Class-A and sweeps from full mono to an image 25 percent wider, with a separate bypass when you want to compare. A Drive button on each channel adds transformer saturation where you want it and leaves the signal clean where you do not. Insert points on both busses let you patch a mastering compressor across the sum, while a separate monitor output with a channel pair selector gives you a listen without untangling cables at the back of the rack.
KEY FEATURES
- Sixteen channels of discrete Class-A summing
- Transformerless, balanced input stages
- Two mix busses with a stereo XLR output
- Sixteen detented pan controls
- Stereo width control from mono to plus 25 percent
- Bypass on the width control for quick comparison
- Drive button on every channel
- Insert points on the left and right busses
- Two track input on balanced TRS jacks
- Monitor and headphone output with channel pair select
- Auxiliary outputs with front panel level control
- DSOP-2 output stage with DB694 transformers
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Channels: 16
- Mix busses: 2, stereo configuration
- Input stages: discrete, balanced, transformerless
- Output transformers: 2 x custom-wound DB694
- Output stage: DSOP-2, discrete, Class-A
- Maximum output level: +26 dB
- Main outputs: balanced XLR
- Insert points: unbalanced TRS jacks on both busses
- Two track input: balanced TRS jacks
- Width control: mono to plus 25 percent
- Metering: LED level array
