System User Guide / Owners Manual

4
Introduction
ThankyouforchoosingtheGrimmAudioCC1CentralClockdistributorforyour
productionenvironment.Thisproductfeaturesarichsetofdistributorfunctions,
baseduponanultralowjitterclockoscillator.Itembodiesourcompanyphilosophy
ofprovidingthemosttransparentsignalchainpossible,enablingyoutoachievethe
bestpossibleresultssonicallyandartistically.LargepartsoftheCC1circuitry,like
theoscillatoranditspowersupplies,useadiscretedesign.BecauseofthisaCC1
hasmorethan700components.Duringconstruction125seperateelementsare
tested.
TheCC1canbeusedinawidevarietyofapplicationssuchas:
•HouseSyncgenerationinaudioand/orvideostudios.Sixteenoutputspermitthe
useofthereliable“star”distributionscheme.TheextremelylowjitteroftheCC1
clockoutputsmaximisesthesoundqualitypotentialoftheattacheddevices.Incase
youneedtoslaveyoursystemtovideoclock,pleaseinsertaGrimmAudioVCC,
‘videotowordclockconverter’beforetheclockinput.
•Clockstabilityimprovement,andhenceimprovedsound,ofdigitallivedesksand
digitalsnakes.
•Clockdistributioninbroadcaststudios.
•Improvementofyourhomeaudiosystem.Forinstanceinconjunctionwithword
clockequipeddevicesorasreclockunitinbetweenatransportormediasystem
andaDAconverter.
Thismanualdescribeshowtosetuptheunitinyourstudio,liveorhomeenviron-
mentaswellasimportanttipsonhowtogetthebestperformancefromtheCC1.In
addition,somebackgroundinformationontheunit’soperationisprovided.
Wehopethisinvestmentwillbringyoumanyyearsofcreativeenjoymentandhelp
youachieveyourgoals.