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Connecting the MIXPAD -
General Suggestions
• Make one connection at a time and then monitor the incoming signal.
If you hear a distinct hum or buzz, you may have a grounding
problem with that particular device. See the section in this manual
entitled “Grounding Techniques” (on page 26) for more information.
• NEVER connect a microphone and line level input to the same
channel simultaneously—use one or the other. You can have some
channels connected to microphones and others to line level signals
(for example, you might want to plug mics into channels 1 - 2 and
line level signals into the remaining channels)—just don’t have both
kinds of inputs connected to the
same channel. The diagram below
shows how your mic connectors should be wired:
• For easy control over a pair of matched signals (i.e. the left-right
outputs of a stereo effects processor, keyboard, drum machine, tone
generator, CD player, or tape recorder), use the MIXPAD’s stereo
input channels. The Balance control in these channels will allow you
to adjust the relative levels of the two inputs, and you can also
equalize the stereo signal, with the same EQ settings applied to both
inputs.
• There are additional “hidden” (or at least not so obvious) stereo
inputs to the MIXPAD; these are the Aux returns. Use these
whenever you want to bring in a stereo signal that will not need to
be equalized. Bear in mind that the two stereo Aux returns in the
MIXPAD 12 / MIXPAD 9 can also be used as four monophonic
returns and that the single stereo Aux return in the MIXPAD 4 can
also be used as two monophonic returns (when connecting only
one monophonic signal, use the “Aux Ret. 1/Mono” jack so that the
returning signal is automatically panned dead center).
3 - SIGNAL
1 GROUND
2 + SIGNAL
T
TO MIC
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