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EURODESK MX2442A

FOREWORD

Dear Customer,
Welcome to the team of EURODESK users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in

BEHRINGER products by purchasing the MX2442A.
It is one of my most pleasant tasks to write this letter to you, because it is the culmination of many months of

hard work delivered by our engineering team to reach a very ambitious goal: creating an outstanding device that

will become a standard tool used by studios and PA companies. The task to design the MX2442A certainly

meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician.

It also meant a lot of work and night shifts to accomplish this goal. But it was fun, too. Developing a product

usually brings a lot of people together, and it really is a great feeling when everybody who participated in such

a project can be proud of what we’ve achieved!
It is our philosophy to share our joy with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER

family. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve greatly contributed to shaping our

company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality (manufactured under

ISO9000 certified management system) as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely

affordable price. All of this will enable you to fully unfold your creativity without being hampered by budget

constraints.
We are often asked how we are able to produce such high-grade devices at such unbelievably low prices.

The answer is quite simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers means large sales volumes

enabling us to get better conditions of purchase for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit back

to you? Because we know that your success is our success, too!
I would like to thank all people whose help on “Project MX2442A” has made it all possible. Everybody has

made very personal contributions, starting from the designers of the unit via the many staff members in our

company to you, the user of BEHRINGER products.

My friends, it’s been worth the trouble!

Thank you very much,

Uli Behringer

All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com

Summary of Contents for Eurodesk MX2442A

Page 1: ...EURODESK MX2442A www behringer com Version 1 1 May 2002 User s Manual ENGLISH All manuals and user guides at all guides com a l l g u i d e s c o m...

Page 2: ...ventilation openings Heat The appliance should be situated away from heat sources such as radiators heat registers stoves or other appliance including amplifiers that produce heat Power Source The app...

Page 3: ...ER family With your highly competent suggestions for new products you ve greatly contributed to shaping our company and making it successful In return we guarantee you uncompromising quality manufactu...

Page 4: ...e main mix s Clear and easy comprehensible design as split console input and main sections divided s State of the art 4580 ICs and high quality components guarantee crystal clear audio performance and...

Page 5: ...ubgroups 11 5 2 Insert Points 11 6 MAIN SECTION 13 6 1 Aux Masters 13 6 2 Monitoring 14 6 3 Headphones 14 6 4 SOLO PFL 14 6 5 2 Track In and Output 14 6 6 Talkback 15 7 CONNECTIONS 15 7 1 EURODESK MX2...

Page 6: ...p will always refer to a sub mix of channels Similarly the term band will be mentioned only in conjunction with frequency 1 2 Structure Working with complex systems like live or studio mixing consoles...

Page 7: ...des six master aux send outputs each with separate SOLO switch Stereo aux returns In the mid upper section you will find two stereo aux returns each of them equipped with a SOLO switch BALANCE and LEV...

Page 8: ...PSU and thereby your EURODESK 3 MONO INPUT CHANNELS Each channel comes with a balanced line level input on 1 4 TRS jack and an XLR mic input Press the PHANTOM switch at the back panel if required The...

Page 9: ...will be heard In most consoles such a wet mix requires the use of a pre setting for the channel aux send losing fader control With the EURODESK you can have a virtually wet mix with fader control Chan...

Page 10: ...aves The upper and lower shelving controls have their turnover frequencies fixed at 12 kHz and 80 Hz whereas the midrange controls and have their bell center frequencies set at 3 kHz and 500 Hz All ba...

Page 11: ...cessing or equalization to a channel a group or the mix Unlike reverbs etc which are usually added to the dry signal dynamic processing is normally applied across an entire signal Here an aux send wou...

Page 12: ...the EQ dynamics processing takes place If you want the aux sends to be post processing you will need to address the signal to one of the subgroups and then insert the EQ dynamics processor between the...

Page 13: ...returns which can also be seen as two additional mono or stereo line inputs On these inputs there is up to 20 dB of gain available Alternatively a mono center panned signal may be returned by pluggin...

Page 14: ...EQ settings for four headphone mixes a total of 12 headphones can be connected 6 4 SOLO PFL SOLO SOLO is short for Solo in Place and is the preferred method for auditioning an isolated signal or grou...

Page 15: ...2A Back Panel Serial Number DC power in This circular multiway connector distributes the different DC operating voltages delivered by the PSU 18 V audio circuits 48 V mic phantom power 12 V lamp and 5...

Page 16: ...Use custom made RCA cables for the 2 track in out traffic center post signal ve sleeve ground screen Monitor control room outputs Will feed a pair of speakers via an amp of course Balanced 1 4 TRS soc...

Page 17: ...17 EURODESK MX2442A Fig 7 1 Different plug types 7 CONNECTIONS All manuals and user guides at all guides com...

Page 18: ...esired low frequency content 4 Set CHANNEL MODE to PFL up 5 Depress the SOLO switch 8 3 Auditioning a Signal and Setting Up a Channel 1 Make a typical noise or roll the tape There should now be some a...

Page 19: ...and way The broader the band the more musical but less instrument specific the effect Applying boost over a narrow bandwidth will sound Honky The two semi parametric bands of the EURODESK EQ have thei...

Page 20: ...ter says you re just hitting 0 dB then it must be coming from the aux send amp or the FX unit If PFL on the aux send reveals nothing amiss turn down the input on the FX unit and turn up the desk s aux...

Page 21: ...areas around the holes and bowed slightly upwards in between Aux sends 1 2 pre EQ All channel aux sends are post EQ If you want to convert them carry out the modification described below to each chan...

Page 22: ...nels assigned Unity gain channels muted 87 0 dBr ref 4 dBu all input channels assigned Unity gain Submaster output Max output 22 dBu balanced unbalanced Fader range 10 dB to 85 dB Main mix section Noi...

Page 23: ...will be repaired or replaced within 30 days of receipt of the product at BEHRINGER 2 If the product needs to be modified or adapted in order to comply with applicable technical or safety standards on...

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