effects. The selection of effects was determined in collaboration with a panel of sound
engineers experienced in live performance mixing. As a result you should find the
internal effects system to be more than adequate for most applications.
MAIN EFFECTS IN/OUT BUTTON
The IN/OUT button allows you to switch the preset effects on or off. You might, for
example, choose to have a particular special effect on your voice at certain times.
The IN/OUT button would let you punch it in and out as required.
DIGITAL EFFECTS CLIP LED
The CLIP LED helps you to set up channel EFX send levels for
optimum signal strength to drive the effects processor. With
signals going into the channels requiring effects, and with
their level faders pushed up half-way or farther (remember,
the EFX sends are post-fader), simply increase the EFX send
control levels on those channels until some DIGITAL
EFFECTS CLIP LED activity is observed. Then turn EFX send
levels down slightly until the flashing stops.
EFFECTS CUE BUTTON & LED
This feature allows you to preview effects via
headphones. First, depress the CUE button - the LED
will illuminate to indicate CUE "on". Now, with the
desired channel's EFX send controls turned up roughly
half-way, the HEADPHONE CROSSFADER set to CUE
and the PHONES level control turned up, SELECT and
MODIFY the desired effect. To add that effect to your
main program mix, press the CUE button again (CUE
LED goes off) and slide the HEADPHONE
CROSSFADER from CUE to PGM.
PHONES JACK, LEVEL CONTROL & SOURCES
The PHONES jack accepts standard stereo headphones. The PHONES level control
and PHONES jack are located in the lower right area of the control panel. The
sources for all headphone signals are the MAINS (or PGM) and CUE buses.
LEVEL DISPLAYS & DISPLAY ASSIGN BUTTON
These displays follow either the LEFT and RIGHT stereo main mix activities or CUE
(anything on CUE) and PGM (a mono mix of the main program), as selected by the
DISPLAY ASSIGN button. If either or both of the red clip lights at the right end of
the level display is flashing too much of the time in L/R mode, lower the MAINS
master level to avoid possible distortion on peaks.
L & R AMP IN JACKS
These are switching jacks which enable you to directly access either or both
channels of the built-in power amplifier while disconnecting them from their
normal internal functions. This permits you to insert an external EQ, a processor
/crossover (e.g. élite) or a compressor/limiter between the mixer section's MAIN
OUTPUTS and the AMP IN jacks. This in-series patch provides the 100% signal
processing essential for these functions to work properly.