Eventide BD600E+ Professional Broadcast Delay with Extended Remote Functionality

Built and based upon the original BD600E from Eventide, their BD600E+ profanity delay further enhances delay protection, fidelity, and expands remote options, while still maintaining the convenient user interface as well as the familiar yellow DUMP button – a continued necessity for all radio engineers. It continues the Eventide tradition of more than 30 years of designing and manufacturing highly reliable and professional delays for broadcast. Providing 80 seconds of stereo delay processing, 24-bit digital and analog I/O, plus an array of new features, the BD600E+ delivers the new world standard.

Providing an unprecedented 80 seconds of the highest quality license and revenue-protecting delay - twice as much as other comparable delays, it brings you the capability to customize the delay buffer length from 4 seconds on up to the full 80 seconds. The "DUMP" function can be customized in ½-second increments up to 10 seconds. Whenever the DUMP button is depressed, only a single segment is deleted. For example, if a unit is set to the full 80 seconds of delay buffer, and is set up to provide 8-second dumps, you'll have 10 separate dump segments at your disposal. Pressing the DUMP button the first time cuts out one 8-second segment, still leaving you with delay protection of 72 seconds. If this is followed by continued trash-talk, just re-press the DUMP button again and you'll still have delay protection of over a minute. The "SNEEZE" button momentarily "edits" audio coming into the delay, letting the host sneeze, cough, or make a short comment without being heard on air - and with no dead air. Your station can't afford to work without a net like this. With the BD600E+, you'll never have to be worried about the possibility of running out of delay memory.

For HD radio stations, this is a powerful device that provides a high-quality subsample-adjustable delay that can be used for synchronizing analog and digital; the "holy grail" for maintaining a seamless user experience. MicroPrecision Delay can even be adjusted while on-air, as well as ramped in and out for clean transitions with no audible artifacts.

And as if 80 seconds of delay protection weren't enough, it also includes a secondary backup called PANIC. What this does is play a .WAV file that's already stored on a compact flash card. While this file - a jingle, ID, or some other message - is being played, delay is being built-up in real time, letting programming continue in safety as soon as the jingle is over. This can also be implemented for painless entry into delay.

This device not only shows an exact digital readout of delay time, but additionally includes a "quick read" bar graph which can instantly confirm "you're safe" at a glance. The unit comes equipped with analog XLR-type inputs and outputs, as well as AES/EBU digital audio inputs and outputs. All front panel switches (except "configure") can be remoted, as can the status indicators. Both RS-232 in and out are included; 4 configurable control inputs and 2 configurable relay-isolated control outputs are provided via an easy-to-wire Euroblock barrier strip.

Ideal for more sophisticated automated broadcast chains, the BD600E+ has 16 bipolar opto-isolated inputs that may be configured to drive the unit's functions along with general-purpose delay inputs. Its 16 open-collector outputs may be configured to output BD600E+ status indicators or to pass through delayed versions of the inputs. An RS-232 output offers a delayed version of the input, handy for driving a time display or for other control uses.

Eventide BD600E+ Features:

• Microprecision delay mode for HD synchronization
• 80 seconds of delay protection
• USB Remote Control
• "PANIC" initiates .WAV file playback during delay rebuild
• 24-bit AES/EBU digital I/O, with optional WORDCLOCK sync
• 24-bit analog XLR I/O
• User-defined "DUMP" length segmentation
• "SNEEZE" button for momentary edit
• Remote control capability
• RS-232 I/O
• Programmable I/O
• (16) bi-polar opto-isolated inputs and (16) open-collector outputs

Eventide BD600E+ Specifications:

• Note: additional information available by clicking on the "Eventide B600+ Series User Manual" located under the "DOCUMENTATION" tab above.
• Analog Input
  • Audio Input Connectors: XLR pin 2 hot, true differential balanced, +4 dBm nominal
  • Input Impedance: 20 kOhms bridging
  • Full Scale Input Level: +26 dBu
  • Dynamic Range: > 104 dB
  • THD+N: < 0.003 @ 1 kHz, -3 dBFS
  • Crosstalk: < -100dB @ 20 Hz to 20 kHz, -1 dBFS
• Analog Output
  • Audio Output Connectors: XLR pin 2 hot, true differential balanced, +4 dBm nominal
  • Output Impedance: 20 kOhms bridging
  • Fuil Scale Output Level: +65 dBu
  • Dynamic Range: > 108 dB
  • THD+N: < 0.003 @ 1 kHz, -3 dBFS in stable delay state
  • Crosstalk < -100 dB @ 20 Hz to 20 kHz, 1 dBFS
  • SNR: > 108 dB
• Recorded Signal
  • Frequency Response:
    • Live or Bypass: 20 Hz - 20 kHz +- 0.1 dB
    • HD Microprecision Delay mode 10 Hz -19 kHz +- 0.25 dB
    • Broadcast Profanity Delay mode 10 Hz - 20 kHz +- 0.1 dB (while delay is changing 10 Hz - 19 kHz +- 1.5 dB)
  • Profanity Delay Maximum Length: Can be set to 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 30, 40, 60, or 80 seconds
  • Micro Precision Fixed Delay: Can be set from .010 seconds to 9.999,999 seconds in microsecond steps
• Remote Control Connectors and Interfaces
  • Remote Control Inputs:
    • RS-232 control input and output
    • USB Remote Control
  • Basic Remote:
    • (4) configurable inputs (closure to ground)
    • (2) relay-isolated status outputs
  • Extended Remote:
    • (16) bi-polar opto-isolated inputs
    • (16) open-collector outputs
    • RS-232 input and delayed output
  • Compact Flash Interface: Supports Type I and Type II Compact Flash cards for .WAV sample playback and software update
• A/D and Digital Signal Characteristics
  • Sample Rates: 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, Word Clock, AES/EBU
  • Digital Inputs/Outputs: 2 Channels of 24-bit AES/EBU
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 1.75" x 19" x 10.5" (4.5 x 48.3 x 26.7cm)
• Weight:
  • Net: 9 lbs. (4.1 kg)
  • Shipping: 14 lbs. (6.5 kg)
• Power: 40 watts, 100-240 VAC, 50/60Hz