Specifications

GLYPH TECHNOLOGIES
TRIP2 TABLETOP
COMPUTER HARDWARE
879
PHOTO - VIDEO - PRO AUDIO
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Hot-Swap FireWire Tabletop Receiver
With the Trip2 Tabletop, you can move projects from one
room to another; can track directly to it, or use a different
drive for each client’s work. You can send a drive home with
a customer, or use one drive to back up the data on another
one. The possibilities are endless with this receiver and tray
design. The Trip2 Tabletop accepts the same Glyph drive/tray
technology as the Trip2. It includes a built-in power supply
and standard dual 6-pin powered FireWire interface.
Imagine being able to record in the studio, pull the FireWire drive and take it home to mix the record there.
FIREWIRE FIXED-DRIVE TABLETOP
The FireWire Fixed-Drive Tabletop is the ultimate solution for your
project and mobile studio. It includes a built-in power supply and a
standard dual 6-pin powered FireWire interface, and it’s built in a
sturdy steel case. It features the latest technological advancements
from Glyph, including QuietMetal to eliminate noise, and exclusive
FireWire bridging technology. This high performance hard drive system
is available in capacities up to 180GB so you can record, mix and edit multi-track audio. It will even handle high definition
sample rates, and includes Glyph Audio Storage Toolkit formatting and partitioning software.
◆ Now Glyph’s latest high-tech hotswap and
bridging technology, first introduced in the
3U-rack Trip2 is available in the smaller,
portable form factor of a tabletop drive
◆ What sets this system apart from all other
“Hot-Swap FireWire” products is that the
Glyph hot-swap interface operates accord-
ing to the IEEE-1394a FireWire standard.
◆ The bridge board is built into the drive/tray.
One of the benefits of FireWire is hot swap-
pability, which means you remove or insert
the tray at the FireWire interface level.
When you’re recording in the studio, any piece of gear that makes
background noise is going to get in the way of your session.That’s
why some people try to silence their gear by putting noisy hard
drive units in “isolation boxes”to muffle the noise of the drives
and fans spinning. Unfortunately,“iso”boxes suffer from heat
buildup.Even in the best boxes,it's nearly impossible to get total
acoustic isolation and also get the heat out of the hard drive that's
in the box.
Most of the noise in a hard drive system comes from the hard
drive itself,and the fans used to circulate air through the enclosure.
Noise is vibration, and it is the vibration of the hard drives and
fans that is so objectionable in an audio recording studio.
So Glyph studied the situation, and decided to block the vibration
of the hard drive and fan from getting to the chassis, where it
could make its way into the studio.The clear place to do this was
in the mounting hardware that holds the drives and fans within
the chassis.
QuietMetal Tri-Laminate
Glyph took advantage of advanced composite metals technology,
and incorporated a tri-laminate — two layers of metal skin,
separated (and bonded) by a viscoelastic polymer core — into
their systems to dampen vibration and control noise.The
tri-laminate metal actually absorbs vibration before it can get to
the unit chassis. Extensive research and testing demonstrated that
careful application of QuietMetal would dramatically cut the noise
level produced by the hard drives and fans.
Glyph uses QuietMetal for the internal drive frames and rear fan
panels, making their products the quietest high-performance
storage systems available today. The combination of viscoelastic
damping and secure fastenings,along with our use of the latest in
quiet drive mechanisms,virtually eliminates vibrational noise. This
translates into a storage solution that is significantly quieter than
the rest of the gear in your studio — which means your recording
is quieter, too.
GLYPH QUIETMETAL (THE SANDWICH OF SILENCE)