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Gain Compensation
3.1
Remote Preamp Control (Console Mixers)
NSB-Series Stageboxes
Owner’s Manual
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Gain Compensation
When your NSB-series stage box is connected to multiple mixers, you have
the option to designate only one to have control over the preamps. In this
way, only one engineer is in charge of gain staging on stage. Once the preamp
level is set by the master mixer, every other mixer on the network has the
option of listening to the same stream or the gain compensated stream.
Routing the AVB stream that isn’t gain compensated, means that you will have
no control over the level of streams feeding the inputs your mixer. While this
may be fine in some situations, this could create gain staging issues in others.
Using the Gain Compensated (GC) stream allows you to retain independent
gain control on each mixer without potentially harming the Front-of-House
mix. NSB stage boxes have an onboard DSP that adjusts the level of the gain
compensated streams relative to gain set on the master mixer. In this way,
every mixer on the network has a working gain range of +/- 20 dB, even if
they are not the set as the master preamp controller for the stage box.
Once Gain Compensation is engaged, the Master mixer can adjust the
gain of each NSB /- 15 dB before the change will be heard
locally on any mixer receiving the Gain Compensated stream.
When using a StudioLive Series III console as the master preamp controller for your
NSB-series stage box, select the non-Gain Compensated streams for your inputs.
3.1
Remote Preamp Control (Console Mixers)
After you route the NSB inputs to your console mixer, select Network for the source
on the corresponding channels.
Press Input on the Fat Channel.
You can now control the preamp level and phantom power for your NSB stage box
from the Fat Channel on your console, in the same way that you control the
local inputs.
FX
C
FX
D
FX
A
FX
B
EFFECTS MASTER
MASTER CONTROL
AVB Input Streams
Available Stream
Assigned Stream
Input Streams
Input 1-8
None
StudioLive 24R: Send 1-8
None
StudioLive 24R: Send 33-40
StudioLive 24R: Send 9-16
None
NSB 8.8: Send 1-8
None
None
None
Input 9-16
Input 17-24
Input 25-32
Input 33-40
Input 41-48
Input 49-56
NSB 8.8: Send 1-8
NSB 8.8: Send 1-8 (GC)
NSB 8.8: Send 1-8
Page
(Insert)
Input
Mic/Line
Assign
Channel
Stereo
Processor
OL
-2
-
12
-
24
-
36
-
48
-
65
Level
Sb 1
Sub 1
Sb 2
Sub 2
Ax 3
Aux 3
Ax 4
Aux 4
Page
Input
Mic/Line
Channel
Processor
OL
-2
-
12
-
24
-
36
-
48
-
65
Level
Sb 1
Sub 1
Sb 2
Sub 2
Processor
OL
-2
-
12
-
24
-
36
Level
Filter
PAN
Center
L6
HI PASS
off
Gain
PREAMP
0 dB
Gain
PREAMP
0 dB
