Bittree Celebrates Multiple Award Wins For Dante-Enabled Audio Patchbay

The Patch32A minimizes cabling, conversion equipment and associated costs for broadcasters, recording studios, post-production facilities. Read on to find out how.  

Bittree’s Patch32A Dante patchbay eliminates the complexity of analog and Dante audio patching in broadcast and professional AV infrastructures. Providing a ramp to instantly move 16 channels of analog audio onto and off of Dante networks, the new solution serves as a natural bridge between legacy audio equipment and IP-based systems using Audinate’s popular Dante media networking technology – including the Dante platform’s recently-added AES67 and SMPTE ST-2110 interoperability.

The Patch32A minimizes cabling, conversion equipment and associated costs for broadcasters, recording studios, post-production facilities and commercial AV environments including houses of worship, performance venues, large corporate offices and higher education campuses.

The 1.5RU Patch32A features TT patching connections for analog I/O (16x16), redundant DC power inputs, external word clock I/O, network status, and multi-level, LED audio VU metering. The patchbay supports 24-bit audio sampling at rates from 44.1 to 192 kHz, with high-quality analog-to-digital conversions that maximize signal integrity and audio fidelity.

The unit can interface with Dante Virtual Soundcard, more than 1600 third-party Dante-enabled devices, and almost any analog component in the same system, including audio distribution equipment, digital audio workstations (DAWs), digital signal processors (DSPs), mixing consoles, multi-track recorders and video routers.

Key Features

  • Stand-alone desktop Dante patchbay with 4 rubber feet
  • 7" (17.78 cm) deep fully enclosed chassis
  • Bitree's renown double full frame TT jacks
  • 16 TT patchable inputs and outputs
  • 16 input and 16 outputs to Dante network (AES67 ready)
  • Redundant power inlets
  • Redundant Dante network ports
  • Supports 44.1 to 192K sample rate at 24-bit
  • Jumper selectable input and output levels (18dBu, 24dBu or 10dbV)
  • Front panel VU and status indicators
  • TT Jacks 16
  • 0 DBFS Reference Levels 18dBu, 24dBu, -10dbV (jumper selectable)
  • Frequency Response 20Hz 20 kHz +/0.25 dB

Line Outputs

  • TT Jacks 16
  • 0 DBFS Reference Levels 18dBu, 24dBu, -10dbV (jumper selectable)
  • Frequency Response 20Hz 20 kHz +/0.25 dB
  • EIN -96dbU A-Weighted
  • SNR 120dB
  • Sample Rates 44.1, 48.8, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192K at 24-bit
  • Clock Sources Internal, External, Dante Network Master

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