CranBorne 500ADAT ADAT Expander, Summing Mixer & 500 Series Rack

500ADAT is the best way to unlock the potential of your ADAT equipped audio interface with the power of the 500 series.

Expand your studio. Expand your sound.

500ADAT is home to 8 of your favourite 500 series modules. It's also an 8in/8out ADAT expander, analogue summing mixer, and artist mixer. It expands the I/O of any ADAT-equipped audio interface.

ADAT And Beyond

500ADAT features analogue essentials that unite digital and analogue production workflows such as an 8-into-2 analogue summing mixer, Zero-latency artist mixer with 2 reference-quality headphone outputs, and true ADAT & SMUXII/IV transmission to enable operation at sample rates up to 192kHz

ADAT, SMUX II/IV Expander

Transform your ADAT-equipped audio interface into an analogue powerhouse by adding 8 channels of expansion at up to 96kHz or 4 channels of expansion at 192kHz.

Zero-Latency Artist Mixer

Get your hands back onto the mix by using 500ADAT's two aux busses to create pristine-sounding analogue artist mixes that can be blended with DAW playback, and sent to your musicians with zero-latency.

Seriously High-Powered Headphone Amps

Drive your headphones with 500ADAT's reference-quality headphone amplifier with enough power to drive low-impedance headphones with plenty of headroom and a linear frequency response to below 1Hz.

Discrete Summing Mixer

Give your mix the final bit of analogue character and send instrument groups and stems back-through your 500 series modules and into the discrete analogue summing mixer to be sent back into your DAW.

World-Class Conversion & Clocking

To make your 500 series modules shine on your digital recordings, our conversion had to be best-in-class. We squeezed every possible .1dB of performance out of 500ADAT's converters to ensure that the only thing colouring your recordings are your mic placements, mixing decisions, and choice of 500 series modules.

Deep 500 Series Integration

Configurable Front End Mix and match your 500 series modules to find the best combinations during recording, and mixing to help create your own signature, analogue sound.

Source Select Re-patch your 500ADAT at a flick of a switch. Dedicated source select switches for each 500 series slot adjusts the signal routing to send Analogue, C.A.S.T. or USB sources through each your modules.

Enough I/O For Any Hardware 500ADAT to integrates with all of your analogue/digital hardware. Patch in 500ADAT with your own converter or integrate your 19" rack gear with dedicated TRS insert jacks per slot.

No Modules? No Problem Bypass unused 500 series slots using 500ADAT's dedicated slot-bypass switch and you can use all of the available analogue paths for recording whilst you continue to build your 500 series collection.

Expandable With 500R8

When you want more 500 series connectivity, you can use up to two 500ADATs with some interfaces or pair 500ADAT with our 500R8. Connect 500R8 and 500ADAT together via ADAT and now you have 16 channels of 500 series modules to work with. during recording and mixing. Whilst 500ADAT offers the same performance as 500R8, any 3rd party ADAT expander is also compatible.

More Recording Channels Record up to 16 channels directly through independent 500 series modules and directly into your DAW for processing.

More Summing Channels Play back instrument groups/stems into all 16 available 500 series slots for summing using our C.A.S.T. link connector.

Fitted with our C.A.S.T. system, 500R8 is compatible with our N22 and N22H C.A.S.T. breakout boxes that cast-away excess cabling spaghetti and offers a cost-effective, low-maintenance, plug-and-play solution to rewire your studio. C.A.S.T. transports 4 channels of balanced, analogue audio over shielded Cat 5e, Cat 6, and Cat 7 cable directly to the location where it is needed in your studio. Create vocal booths, isolation booth, or run our a microphone to the hallway for ambience, C.A.S.T. is the best way to expand your 500R8 and get the most out of your studio space.

Send/Receive Audio From C.A.S.T. Connect N22 or N22H to 500R8 using shielded Cat 5e, Cat 6, or Cat 7 cable and they are fully-patched into 500R8. Mics/sources connected to the breakout are patched directly to the slot inputs of 500R8 and the monitor mix created on 500R8 (including talkback) is sent through the same cable, directly to the outputs of the connected breakout.

Fully Compatible With Microphones and 48v If you have preamps installed into 500R8, C.A.S.T. can transport their 48v phantom through the C.A.S.T. connection via Cat 5e, Cat 6, and Cat 7 and directly to condenser/active microphones connected at the end. C.A.S.T. is completely plug-and-play and works at distances up to 100m for maximum flexibility and convenience.

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Housed in a 4U, 19" rack mountable steel frame, 500ADAT lends it self perfectly to mobile recording setups. We tried to think of everything, even the rack ears support three unique mounting methods. You can recess 500R8 into the rack to protect the front panel controls during travel; you can also take those same rack ears and re-orientate them to become a carry handle.

Home Grown 500ADAT is designed and engineered in the UK and every unit that leaves our factory is thoroughly tested to provide years of trouble-free and dependable service.