MOTU 828es, User Manual

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F R O N T P A N E L O P E R A T I O N
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Monitor volume control
Control the volume of both Monitor A and B pairs
with the MONITOR knob (Figure 7-6). This knob
controls both pairs. To adjust their volume relative
to one another, use their trim controls in the
Device tab (item #20 on page 12).
Mute and Mono
Push MUTE (Figure 7-6) to temporarily silence
both Monitor output pairs (A and B). Push
MONO (Figure 7-6) to temporarily sum each pair
to mono. When summing to mono, the left and
right channels are mixed together and the
resulting mono audio stream is sent to both
outputs of the stereo pair. The resulting mono
signal is also attenuated by 3 dB to maintain the
same overall loudness of the original stereo image.
TALKBACK
Talkback allows an engineer in the control room
to temporarily dim all audio and talk to musicians
during a recording session. Talkback requires a
microphone located in the control room, near the
engineer. The 828es provides a built-in talkback
mic on its front panel (item 3 on page 9).
Alternately, you could use an external microphone
connected to a mic input (or a line input when
combined with a separate preamp), but the built-
in mic frees up inputs for other high-priority
sources such as vocal mics, guitars, keyboards, etc.
Talkback setup
To set up talkback:
1 Route the talkback mic to a mixer input, as
demonstrated in Figure 7-7. If you are using one of
the two front-panel mic inputs for an external
talkback mic, route that input to a mixer channel.
Figure 7-7: Basic routing for the built-in talkback mic. In this example, the built-in talkback mic is routed to input 1 of the mixer. Aux bus
1-2 is assigned to analog outs 7-8, which are being used to route the signal to speakers in the room where the musicians are located.
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