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Monitoring
Turn the large blue pot below the MONITOR LEVEL to set the level of the main control room monitors. For fine
level adjustments, push down on the monitor pot before turning. The display above it will display ‘Fine’ mode.
The monitor pot is also used to control other miscellaneous levels:
Press any of the column of six MISC LEVELS switches to the right of the monitor pot, and then use the monitor
pot to adjust their level. Deselect the MISC LEVELS switch to return to main monitor control.
To immediately silence the monitors, press CUT (below the monitor pot).
To immediately reduce the monitoring level, press DIM. The amount of gain reduction is adjusted by pressing the DIM
button at the top of MISC LEVELS and turning the monitor pot.
The DIM function is automatically activated by any of the following COMMUNICATIONS buttons: LISTEN, TB ALL,
F/B A, F/B B, EXT T/B; or by the Oscillator’s TRACK, REC or MIX buttons.
To solo or mute an individual component of the monitoring, use the MONITOR MUTE/SOLO buttons above
the monitor pot. These buttons are cut switches by default. To use them as solo switches, select SOLO at the top
of the MON MODE buttons .
Select the speakers on which to monitor using the LS SELECT buttons: ALT 5.1 (‘Main B’), MINI A or MINI
B . The Main 5.1 speakers (‘Main A’) are active when no others are selected. Control the relative level of the mini
speaker outputs using the main monitor pot by selecting MINI in the MISC LEVELS buttons.
To select the monitoring source, use the MON SRC buttons. These include the Record ( REC ) and Mix bus ( MIX ),
and two external source selectors, EXT A and EXT B . Sources will be intercancelling unless the SUM button is
selected. All sources are stereo except those brought in via the EXT A monitor source selector (see next page).
To select what the control room headphones hear, press the PHONES buttons: The control room monitors ( CR
MON ), the foldbacks ( FB A or FB B ), or nothing ( CUT ). This headphones level is set by pressing PHONES in
the MISC LEVELS buttons and turning the monitor pot.
MON MODE buttons
Ordinarily, the console monitoring is 5.1-enabled, connecting all six monitor busses to their respective monitor outputs.
With DOWNMIX selected, 5.1 inputs are folded down to the monitor path via a 5-2 matrix and fed to left and right
monitor outputs. The centre channel is reduced in level by 3dB and fed to both left and right in this mode. When a MINI
speaker output is selected, DOWNMIX is automatically activated.
MONO sums the left and right monitor busses, feeding the result to the left and right monitor outputs. The ØL button
reverses the phase of the left monitor feed, providing a quick way of checking for any phase anomalies in a stereo mix.
SOLO turns the monitor cut buttons ( ) into monitor solo buttons.
The SOLO CLEAR button lights when a channel SOLO or centre section AFL is active. Press it to clear all solos.
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