Looking for info/schematics/usermanuals for Scantex AFDM-208

[etheory]

Hi all!

A friend of mine asked me the following:

"Very odd question for the interwebs...
has anyone heard of a Scantex AFDM-208?
it's an "audio-follow dissolver mixer"
Scantex was a company out of Montreal, closed in 2003...
almost no information online about this device....
any help would be awesome."

And I knew that if ANYONE in the world would have this info, it'd be someone on this forum.

Thanks!

 

[mjrippe]

Never heard of them, but it it clearly a sound-for-video mixer.  Perhaps one of the video production forums could help?

 

[Whoops]

Well thats a TV/VIDEO Broadcast mixer.

Circuit should be very simple, it works more like a matrix.
No EQ, No Aux Send.
It's uses for Audio and Music are really limited

Open it up and check out the insides, let us know what you find there

 

[etheory]

Open it up and check out the insides, let us know what you find there

Unfortunately I can't as I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who just obtained this mixer but lives overseas. I could easily do this myself but I think they are after enough information to know what they have. Apparently it turns on but they are not sure how it all works.

 

[Whoops]

Apparently it turns on but they are not sure how it all works.

It should not be hard, there's the top switches to change between different sources (inputs).
So there should inputs and outputs in the back, probably in some sort of multipin connector

 

[abbey road d enfer]

Hi all!

A friend of mine asked me the following:

"Very odd question for the interwebs...
has anyone heard of a Scantex AFDM-208?
it's an "audio-follow dissolver mixer"
Scantex was a company out of Montreal, closed in 2003...
almost no information online about this device....
any help would be awesome."

And I knew that if ANYONE in the world would have this info, it'd be someone on this forum.

Thanks!

These mixers are designed to operate under control of a video editor.
The Sony protocol used a 15-pin D-type connector that received control voltages for the channel's VCA's, and a few other control signals used to select the monitor source and other things I've forgotten.
The other protocol is ESAM2 and is digital.