Salt Lake City,UT (February, 2002)--Graham-Patten Systems' D/ESAM 8000 audio mixer was selected for use by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the 2002 Winter Olympics Games held here February 8 - 24, 2002. NBC used a total of 16 D/ESAM 8000's at the International Broadcast Center (IBC) and at various venue editing facilities to provide more than 300 hours of coverage.

"The editors were very happy to have the Graham-Patten mixer in the edit room," commented John Henkel, D/ESAM 8000 Product Specialist. "Most of them have used other D/ESAM mixers before, but even those that haven't were up and running in no time. They loved the beautiful control panel, movable faders and all the great D/ESAM features including auto-channels, stereo faders and just the overall ease of use."

The D/ESAM 8000 builds on Graham-Patten’s long history of post-production audio mixers and at the same time takes advantage of the VADIS technology engineered by the parent company, Klotz Digital. The D/ESAM 8000 is an 8 channel mixer, equipped with 8 input, 8 program, and 8 preview busses, allowing customers to use all tracks of the new 8 channel video tape recorders.

Capitalizing on the newly developed SDI input card customers can take all 8 embedded SDI audio channels from the video tape recorder and bring them into the D/ESAM 8000 on just one cable. No auxiliary equipment is necessary: installation costs,wiring time, and equipment costs can be reduced dramatically.

The D/ESAM 8000control panel incorporates two LCD screens: one for metering and one for touch-screen operations and status, bringing visual ease to edit control, where typically, functions have been buried in menus.

For more information on the D/ESAM 8000, visit the D/ESAM 8000 product page.