Avid 003 Rack+ Factory

Record the entire band in your home/project studio, garage, or even live! Digidesign® 003® Rack+ Factory is ideal for musicians, recording engineers, and producers looking for a professional Pro Tools® music recording and production solution that’s more affordable and portable. With best-in-class sound quality, eight premium mic preamps, and a wide variety of I/O to connect instruments, MIDI gear, and other analog and digital devices, 003 Rack+ Factory works with your computer, providing the power and capacity to record an entire band, vocal or instrument ensemble, or completely mic’d up drum kit — all at once.

003 Rack+ Factory comes with everything you need to compose, record, sequence, edit, mix, master, and promote your music. It includes award-winning Pro Tools software, the most popular and widely-used professional music production application in the world, along with a huge collection of studio-quality sound processing and effects plug-ins, virtual instruments, compatible applications, and sound libraries to get you started creating right away. Plus, the included Factory collection of professional plug-ins (worth over £1400/€2400 USD just on its own) will help you enhance tracks and achieve impeccable, polished mixes quickly and easily.

003 Rack+ Factory also includes over £1400/€2400 worth of additional professional plug-ins, plus an iLok USB Smart Key to handle your plug-in authorization.

• 18 simultaneous channels of audio I/O
• 24-bit/96 kHz resolution
• 8 professional mic preamps; 48V phantom power on all channels
• 8 analog DI/line inputs (including 1 on the front panel); 8 analog outputs
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O
• 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O
• 1 MIDI I/O (16 channels in/16 channels out)
• BNC Word Clock I/O
• Dedicated studio monitor output, plus alternate control room output
• Alternate Source input for external device monitoring
• Dual headphone outputs
• High-speed FireWire connectivity

In addition to M-Audio Torq LE DJ software and an incredible 8 GB collection of pro-quality loops from industry sound heavyweights Big Fish Audio, Pro Tools software includes a comprehensive bundle of amazing virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins.

- 003 Factory Plug-in Bundle
• Bomb Factory BF-2A
• Bomb Factory BF-3A
• Fairchild 660 and 670
• Purple Audio MC77
• Cosmonaut Voice
• JOEMEEK SC2 Photo Optical Compressor
• JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer
• Moogerfooger 12-Stage Phaser
• Moogerfooger Analog Delay
• Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter
• Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
• SoundReplacer
• TL EveryPhase
• Tel-Ray Variable Delay
• Voce Chorus/Vibrato
• Voce Spin

- Virtual Instruments
• Boom drum machine and sequencer
• DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation
• Mini Grand acoustic grand piano
• Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer
• Xpand!2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation
• Structure Free sample player
• FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module

- Effects, Sound-Processing, Utily Plug-Ins
• 1-Band EQ III
• 4-Band EQ III
• 7-Band EQ III
• AIR Chorus
• AIR Distortion
• AIR Dynamic Delay
• AIR Enhancer
• AIR Ensemble
• AIR Filter Gate
• AIR Flanger
• AIR Frequency Shifter
• AIR FuzzWah
• AIR KillEQ
• AIR Lo-Fi
• AIR MultiChorus
• AIR Multi-Delay
• AIR Nonlinear Reverb
• AIR Phaser
• AIR Reverb
• AIR Spring Reverb
• AIR StereoWidth
• AIR Talkbox
• AIR Vintage Filter
• BF76 Compressor
• BF Essential Clip Remover
• BF Essential Correlation Meter
• BF Essential Meter Bridge
• BF Essential Noise Meter
• Celemony Melodyne Essential
• Chorus
• Click
• Compressor/Limiter
• D-Verb
• DC Offset Removal
• De-Esser
• Delay
• DigiReWire
• Dither
• Duplicate
• Eleven Free
• Expander/Gate
• Extra Long Delay II
• Flanger
• Gain
• Invert
• Lo-Fi
• Long Delay II
• Maxim
• Medium Delay II
• Multi-Tap Delay
• Normalize
• Ping-Pong Delay
• Pitch
• Pitch Shift
• POWr Dither
• Recti-Fi
• Reverse
• SansAmp
• Sci-Fi
• Signal Generator
• Short Delay II
• Slap Delay II
• Time Compression Expansion
• Time Shift
• TL AutoPan
• TL InTune
• TL MasterMeter
• TL Metro
• Trim
• Vari-Fi

Mic inputs
• Connector: Eight balanced XLR jacks
• Mic Phantom Power: 48V
• Frequency Response: +0.0 / -0.25 dB, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 103 dB / 106 dB A-weighted
• THD + N: 0.0007% (-103 dB)
• Input Sensitivity: +6.4 dBu
• Gain Range: +18 – +65 dB
• Gain Range (Pad engaged): -0 - +45 dB

Line/DI Inputs
• Connector: Eight balanced 1/4" jacks
• Frequency Response: +/- 0.1 dB, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 103 dB / 106 dB A-weighted
• THD + N: 0.0010% (-100 dB)
• Input Sensitivity: +21.64 dBu

Aux inputs
• Connector: Two balanced 1/4" jacks
• Frequency Response: +/- 0.1 dB, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 111 dB / 113 dB A-weighted
• THD + N: 0.00055% (-105 dB)
• Input Sensitivity: +17.16 dBu
• Input Impedance: 10K Ohm

Digital Specifications
• Supported Sample Rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz
• Maximum Word Length: 24-bit
• S/PDIF: 2-channel optical or RCA jack pair
• Digital Optical: TOSLINK (ADAT, max 48 kHz sample rate)
• Word Clock: Two BNC jacks
• Host Connection: Two IEEE-1394a (FireWire) ports (6-pin-to-6-pin FireWire cable included)
• MIDI: 5-pin MIDI DIN connectors - one input, one output

Line Outputs
• Connector: Eight impedance balanced 1/4" jacks
• Frequency Response: +/- 0.5 dB, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 110 dB / 113 dB A-weighted
• THD + N: 0.0007% (-103 dB)
• Output Sensitivity: +18 dBu

Monitor Outputs
• Connector: Two impedance balanced 1/4" jacks
• Frequency Response: +/- 0.5 dB, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 110 dB / 112 dB A-weighted
• THD + N: 0.0008% (-102 dB)
• Output Sensitivity: +18 dBu

Headphone Outputs
• Connector: Two unbalanced 1/4" jacks
• Frequency Response: +/- 0.5 dB, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• THD + N: 0.0009% (-101 dB)
• Dynamic Range: 110 dB / 112 dB A-weighted
• Output Sensitivity: +23 dBu

Size / Weight / Power
• Height: 2U rack (3.5 inches / 8.89 cm)
• Width: 19 inches / 48.26 cm
• Depth: 13.5 inches / 34.29 cm (including all knobs / connectors)
• Weight: 11.22 lbs / 5.09 kg
• Power Requirements: 100 - 240V, 50 - 60 Hz A/C (power cable included)