Blackmagic Design Fairlight Console Chassis 2 Bay

A Fairlight Foundation Designed for an Evolving Console

Within the Fairlight ecosystem, this "2 bay" chassis plays a key role: it serves as the physical foundation on which to build a professional, stable, and coherent control surface. It represents a particularly balanced format, more spacious than a minimalist setup while remaining more compact than a large dedicated console. The result: you save space on your studio furniture without sacrificing the ergonomics and scalability expected in a studio environment.

This modular approach is ideal when your configuration needs to adapt to real-world demands: adding mixing tools, more frequent editing needs, denser post-production sessions, or an increase in projects. Rather than locking your setup, the chassis allows you to build a Fairlight console à la carte, selecting modules according to your workflow.

For Control Rooms, Post-Production Studios, and Demanding Workflows

Designed for mixers, sound editors, sound designers, and broadcast operators, this chassis targets those who expect a responsive, readable control surface designed for efficiency. In post-production, dubbing, television, radio, or content creation, quick access to controls and logical tool layout become decisive criteria: unnecessary manipulations are reduced, editing is secured, and the mix stays under control even as sessions intensify.

The "2 bay" format is particularly suited to spaces where work comfort must be balanced with space constraints: compact control rooms, shared mixing rooms, OB vans, or audio editing stations where the control surface must remain integrated with the computer workstation and existing displays.

Modularity, Direct Access, and Workspace Coherence

The strength of this chassis lies in its ability to organize your control area by function while remaining easy to evolve. You build your console around essential actions: level control, channel parameter access, audio editing, and key information visualization. This logic reduces dispersion and promotes a smooth workflow, especially useful when switching between editing, cleanup, automation, and finalization.

Build Your Surface According to Your Priorities

Add one or more Channel Fader panels to keep the mix at your fingertips and facilitate automation. Complement with a Channel Control when you need deep parameter access and fine control without constantly relying on on-screen menus. Integrate the Audio Editor to speed up editing tasks and improve comfort during long sessions. Finally, adding an LCD Monitor allows dedicating a display to track and function information, minimizing back-and-forth and stabilizing project playback.

A Layout Designed to Last

The bay-based arrangement facilitates initial optimization of your workstation as well as later reorganization when your needs change. This scalability is a real advantage over a fixed surface: you adapt the console to your working style, project types, and evolving toolset, all while maintaining a robust and homogeneous base.

• Modules, accessories and monitors sold separately

Technical specifications

Color

Black

Type	empty chassis for studio console	Surface customization	addition, removal or rearrangement of modules
Configuration	2 modular bays	Chassis	2 bays (empty)
Use	base for an audio control surface in post-production and broadcast