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Overview:
The Evo 5 is the perfect tool for today's DJ and producers thanks to its unique combination of a state of the art internal 12 channel FireWire sound, the highest digital sound quality (24bit/96kHz), flexible, fully-assignable MIDI control alongside the most powerful built-in editable effects processors on the market.
Award Winner!
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We're Delighted to announce that the EVO 5 won the 'Best USB/Firewire Mixer' Award at the prestigious 2008 DJ Magazine Tech Awards. It beat Allen & Heath's Xone 4:D and Korg's Zero4 to the prize.
It then reclaimed its prize in '09 with supporting votes from panelists, Pete Gooding, Eitan Zilkha (of West End DJ), and James Zabiela!
D&B TV!
Ecler EVO 5 is the mixer of choice for Drum & Bass Arena, where the world's Drum & Bass elite play weekly to the internet masses. Previous guests include; Goldie and Henley Pro's own Futurebound.
Digital Brilliance
The EVO5 features the best digital components in the market. The external analogue signal is digitalised through a professional A/D converter at 24bit/96kHz for the highest sound quality. A background of more than 40 years designing and manufacturing professional audio products make Ecler's circuitry extremely efficient with regard to signal processing and routing. They are designed in order to get the most resemblant analogue audio quality and all of them are engineered, mounted and fully tested in their Barcelona factory.
Produce Music
The EVO5 allows professional DJs to think forward and integrate software in their set up thanks to its top quality 24bit/96kHz internal sound card. This top of the range sound card features 12 mono input channels (6 stereo inputs CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, MIX and PFL) and 12 mono output channels (6 stereo outputs CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, MIX and CH0). Stereo outputs can be used for instance to route Phono or Line inputs to a computer for effects processing with your favourite software or to record your set in your computer. This compact sound card is powered via FireWire, a professional standard superior to USB, and it transfers all audio channels and MIDI information through only one FireWire cable. This powerful tool turns the EVO5 into the perfect console for music production and live performances.
Probably the World's Greatest Inbuilt Effects Processor
The EVO5 features a powerful effects processor at 24bit/96kHz that can be fully edited. It features 8 basic effects: Delay/Echo, Filter, Flanger, Phaser, Transformer, Panoramic, Pitch and Reverb, and all effects parameters can be edited. Moreover the EVO5 offers the new and revolutionary possibility to chain 2 basic effects and so create complex customized effects. A total of 64 different complex effects can be created, named and saved. A precise BPM counter with reliability indication synchronises the effects. Another new feature is the synchronisation by pattern that allows controlling the effects in an extremely creative way. There are also 2 dedicated Microphone effects: Noise Gate and Compressor (also editable). Personal effects presets can be imported and exported using a computer via FireWire with the EVO5 external software (included).
Enhance Your Set
The 69 controls of the EVO5 are MIDI enabled and completely mappable and editable. Moreover the EVO5 features a dedicated MIDI control section with 10 push switches and 4 rotary encoders around a full colour screen, which turns into the perfect display for labelling the controls functions. There are 64 different layouts including different control presets for DJ software such as Traktor and Live. Presets can be imported and exported using a computer via FireWire with the EVO5 external software (included). There is also a MIDI Clock output synchronised to the BPM counter. All MIDI information is transferred with ultra low latency thanks to the EVO5 FireWire and MIDI DIN5 interface.
Visualise Your Steps
The EVO5 includes a 3,5 inch screen to enhance your creativity and gain total control of your mixer parameters. Thanks to this high quality colour resolution screen, users can easily display labels for MIDI controls, edit sound effects and mixer parameters. The screen also serves as a display for the BPM counter, the MIDI monitor, the FireWire connection and much more.
Upgrade And Save
The EVO5 software can be updated and the mixer features can be upgraded, for instance storing new sound effects. Updates and upgrades are easily done using a computer and the mixer is fully compatible with Macintosh computers. Most EVO5 parameters can be easily adjusted through the screen. Users can choose between Kill and Baxandall EQ styles. EQ gains and frequencies are fully editable and channel EQ can be also bypassed. Microphone Talkover and dedicated effects are also editable. On the output, users can adjust sensibility of OUT1 and OUT2 to 0dB, +3dB or +6dB, as well as assigning the REC signal to MIX or PFL. All fader shapes can be adjusted, including the crossfader, the channel faders and the effects Dry/Wet crossfader. The BPM counter can be assigned to the internal source or to the MIDI Clock, and can work on different ranges from 60 to 220 BPM. The FireWire sound card input and output levels can also be adjusted from 0dB to +18dB. Different user presets protected with password can be saved, as well as imported and exported using a computer with the external software (included).
Keep it Safe
The EVO5 features a limiter on output 1 or 2 for a totally safe performance. The limiter is only accessible with a special password in order to avoid that a non authorised user modifies it. The limiter can be assigned to OUT1 or OUT2, or it can be deactivated. The limit threshold goes from -20dB to +6dB. Club owners and sound engineers can feel safe thanks to this unique feature that will prevent the sound system from any damage.
Sports-Car Good Looks...
ITALDESIGN-GIUGIARO is considered one of the best car design companies of the world and Mr. Giugiaro was awarded in 1999 as car designer of the century. ITALDESIGN-GIUGIARO has achieved this great popularity with its important designs for the car industry (it designed the first VW Golf, Fiat Panda and Seat Ibiza). It has also designed for Ferrari, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Maserati and the last models of Fiat (Punto and Croma) and Alfa Romeo (159 and Brera). A total of more than 200 cars designed in almost 40 years of history, and more than 40 million cars built following its design and engineering, show its success and prestige.
GIUGIARO DESIGN, a division apart from car design, exists from 1981 dedicated to transport, product and graphic design. For the last 25 years, GIUGIARO DESIGN has been designing transport (trains, aircrafts, buses, motorcycles and boats), industrial products and graphic and corporate design, having received more than 50 international design awards.
Its success and experience has taken GIUGIARO to be chosen to design the most important products for brands such as Apple, Sony, Sanyo, Keenwood, Nikon, Swatch, Siemens, Merloni, Candy, Indesit, Omega or Seiko.
The multifunction screen had to be the most emphasized element of this new mixer and the challenge was to integrate it between the traditional faders and controls, not breaking the aesthetics of the habitual professional design of ECLER. The control knobs of the screen functions were minimized and some of them were integrated as part of the screen frame. This gave more homogeneity and with an excellent quality material, minimized the possibility of the mixer looking like a gadget or toy.
The job for the graphic design of the screen contents was especially intense. It has to be innovative but at the same time intuitive and easy to read. It had to feature a clear interaction with the screen controls and a graphic design according to the global cosmetics of the mixer.
The EVO5 professional DJ mixer is now a reality and GIUGIARO DESIGN adds to its extensive list of designed products its first professional mixer, with the hope that it becomes another success story and the beginning of a long relationship with the world of professional audio.
