JLCooper Electronics MixMate, Owner'S Manual

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tion that you want for the beginning of the mix. For example, if the song
starts with 12 bars of percussion on tracks 1 through 3, you may want to
start the mix with tracks 4-8 muted.
You may enter fader moves or mute moves in any order, and in as many
"passes" as you wish ,but for this example we suggest starting with MUTE
MODE off (MUTE LED off). As stated in the last paragraph, any channels
that you muted will stay muted even if you are not in MUTE MODE.
For the first pass, select WRITE MODE and ENABLE all eight faders by
pressing the ENABLE keys above each channel.
Start the tape transport (or other source of sync). The green LOCK LED
will turn on to show when
MixMate is receiving sync. The LOCK LED
should stay on steady without flickering. (Flicker may be indicative of faulty
stripping. If you experience difficulty in achieving a good lock-up, see
TROUBLESHOOTING, Chapter 9).
Make your fader moves for a rough mix. At the end of the song, stop the
tape (or other source of sync). When the LOCK LED goes out, The fad-
ers will "disable" and return to the READ (playback only) mode. Now go
back to the top of the song, enter MUTE MODE, and do a pass of mutes.
Go back to the top again, play the song and audit the results of your mix.
SMPTE USERS PLEASE NOTE. On your first pass after starting with a
cleared memory,
MixMate scans the faders and mutes as soon as sync
comes in. MixMate stores the initial levels and mutes so that it will "know"
how to set up the VCAs when you roll back to the very beginning of the
song. In SMPTE mode, this set of starting conditions is associated in
memory with a unique value of SMPTE, representing the beginning of the
song. For this reason, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO A SECOND PASS OR
MIX EDIT AT A SMPTE TIME BEFORE YOUR INITIAL STARTING
TIME. Until MixMate recognizes the initial start SMPTE time, it will ignore
any mute or fader moves.
Now that a rough mix has been committed to memory, you can take advan-
tage of MixMate's powerful editing utilities for "fine tuning" your mix.
Before editing, here is a detailed explanation of the NULL LEDs that you
can skim if you already understand what they are used for.
When MixMate is locked to tape and automating the VCAs, every fader
move that you made in WRITE MODE is being "played back". The faders
section 2, clear-
ing memory
section 3, mix-
ing
first pass