Burl Audio B16-BMB4-M3-1616 — a ready-made AD/DA system in a B16 Mothership 3 chassis, fitted with a BMB4 SoundGrid motherboard and a matched pair of BAD16 and BDA16 cards, giving sixteen analog inputs and sixteen analog outputs in a single two-slot 2U unit.
Input conversion runs through transformer-coupled, discrete class-A circuitry with the BX8 transformer, while output conversion uses a discrete class-A path with the BOPA14 op-amp. The BMB4 motherboard provides a single Ethernet port carrying up to 64 input and output channels at 44.1kHz to 96kHz over the Waves SoundGrid protocol.
Direct integration with the SoundGrid ecosystem
Studios and live systems running on Waves SoundGrid often need to add a separate AD/DA converter to the network, which complicates cabling and adds latency. The BMB4 addresses this with a direct, low-latency Ethernet connection to SoundGrid servers, DAWs and consoles, with no interfacing card in between. That puts BURL Audio's analog conversion quality straight onto the audio-over-IP network, keeping the sonic character known from larger Mothership systems.
A ready 16-in, 16-out set with no card shopping
Configuring a Mothership system from scratch means separately selecting a motherboard, input and output cards, and checking they all match up. This set removes that step, combining the B16 chassis, a BMB4 motherboard, and BAD16 and BDA16 cards into one ready sixteen-in, sixteen-out system, housed in two rack units with an internal power supply. It works equally well as a compact project studio interface or as a networked conversion point in a larger SoundGrid system.
KEY FEATURES
- Complete set: B16 Mothership 3 chassis, BMB4 motherboard, BAD16 and BDA16 cards
- 16 ADC input channels and 16 DAC output channels
- BMB4 motherboard with an Ethernet port for the Waves SoundGrid protocol
- Up to 64 I/O channels at 44.1-96kHz over SoundGrid
- Transformer-coupled inputs with the BX8 transformer
- Outputs with a discrete class-A BOPA14 op-amp
- Internal power supply, 2U chassis with two card slots
- Compatible exclusively with MOTHERSHIP 3 architecture
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Chassis: B16 Mothership 3, 2U, 2 card slots
- Motherboard: BMB4 SoundGrid, 1 Ethernet port
- I/O channels over SoundGrid: up to 64 at 44.1-96kHz
- Input card: BAD16, 16-channel ADC, class-A, BX8 transformer
- Output card: BDA16, 16-channel DAC, class-A, BOPA14 op-amp
- Card connectors: DB25 (DSUB, Tascam pinout)
- Word clock: 1 BNC input, 2 BNC outputs
- Power: internal power supply
- Compatibility: MOTHERSHIP 3 only
