Phoenix Audio NICERIZER Junior User manual

PHOENIX AUDIO
Costa Mesa
CA 92626
USA
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The “NICERIZER Junior” Owner’s Manual
Firstly, let us congratulate you on your purchase of the “Nicerizer Junior”. We
know you will be as pleased with its sonic qualities as we are.
You are now the proud owner of a “Nicerizer Junior” that has the advantages of
more than 25 years experience in audio engineering, today’s component and
manufacturing technology, but still retaining “that sound” uniquely achievable
through Class A design.
As you can tell, Phoenix Audio is dedicated to the development of Class A
discrete technology used within high build-quality equipment.
The “Nicerizer Junior” was originally conceived because of the demand from
customers for something that would "sweeten" the output from Digital Audio
Workstations, and to make the final mix easier to distribute and handle.
The “Nicerizer Junior” is designed to take the output out of the digital realm, and
to add the Class A characteristics and feel before the final recording.
The ““Nicerizer Junior”” uses our well proven and loved Class A output stage
(DSOP-2), but also has our latest breakthrough in transformer-less Class A,
Discrete Input Technology which gives a "valve-like" sound, and our Class A,
Discrete, Virtual Earth mixing stage, and Unique Class A Discrete Stereo Width
mixing stage.

You CAN hear the difference!!!
The “Nicerizer Junior” is a 2U, 19" rack mountable 16 channel Input unit,
which can be stacked and linked.
Applications: Range from "digital sweetening" to source routing, to DAW
mixing and from studio to stadium.
Specifications:
• 16 channels of our Class A, discrete, truly balanced transformer-less input
• stage.
• Our proven and loved Class A, discrete, transformer balanced output stage
(DSOP-2).
• Class A, Discrete, High Gain, Inverting (Virtual Earth) Mixing stage.
• Individual pan control for each channel with detented control (16 x Pan pots).
• 16 x Balanced Inputs on D-sub. Can accept balanced or unbalanced input with no
-6dB loss, wired to Tascam DA88 Standard
• 4 x mix busses (Stereo Mix Bus).
• +8dB Boost button on each channel.
• 2 x Master mix bus output level control.
• Main Outputs on Balanced XLR's (4 outputs)
• Huge headroom available on all channels. Input Headroom +26dB. Output
Headroom +26dB
Overview:
The Input signal is fed to the “Nicerizer Junior” via the D-sub inputs on the rear
panel. The input signal is panned by the associated pan control on the front
panel. The Nicerizer Junior is usually used in channel pairs Eg: 1- Left, 2 –Right.
The main bus output level is adjusted via the main level
control on the front panel.

Rear Panel Connections:
Inputs:
On the rear panel there are 2 Tascam DA88 Wire D-sub input connectors Numbered 1 – 8
and 9 - 16. These
correspond with the Pan controls and monitor control on the front panel.
These are Balanced XLR Inputs, but are equally capable of accepting an
unbalanced signal without the 6dB loss often associated with sending an
unbalanced signal into a balanced input.
Main Outputs:
There are 4 x Main output XLR’s labelled Output L and R on output A and Output L and
R on output B. These provide access to the 2 mix busses which are transformer-balanced
Outputs driven by our Class A, Discrete DSOP-2 Output stages, and can be used in either
balanced or un-balanced mode. These outputs can also be chained to any number of
pieces of external equipment as long as total loading does not exceed 600R.
Front Panel:
Pan Controls
The front panel has 2 rows of detented Pan controls numbered 1 - 16 associated with the
Input on the rear panel. Each channel is individually controlled and can be
panned From Left to Right, and anywhere in between.
+8 dB Push-button switches
Between the rows of Pan controls there is a row of Push-button switches marked
+8. Each switch is associated with an individual channel, and pressing a switch
will add an additional gain of +8dB to the input of that channel.
Main Output Level Control
The Main Output Level control is used to adjust the Main Output Level of the unit on the
main Output XLR’s, there are two sets of controls – A & B, both these are identical and
all 16 channels are fed simultaneously to both outputs, which are independent of each
other. Two sets of controls allow the Nicerizer Junior to mix two different mixes with
different level controls and differing tones or splitting signals by sending one into a DAW
and another into a monitoring box or hardware compressor or EQ.
Illuminated Mains switch.
Switching this switch into the ‘ON’ position so that the Neon glows, has a profound
effect on the sound quality and gain of the unit. This is best left in the “ON” position for
normal use. J