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Turning the Auto Mixer On or Off
By default, auto-mixing is turned off, but it may be turned on and any of the 12
inputs can be assigned to the Auto Mixer. See also
Assigning Inputs to the Auto
Mixer
for more information.
To turn on automatic mixing:
1. Access the Auto Mixer screen.
2. Press the Headphone encoder to activate Mode selection.
3. Turn and press encoder again to select a mode to use from one of two op-
tions: MixAssist, Dugan AutoMix.
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Auto Mixer, in either mode, is disabled automatically when Main menu option RE-
CORDER > Sample Rate is set to a value higher than 48.048 kHz.
The Auto Mixer screen varies, depending on what mode is chosen.
Input not assigned to MixAssist
MixAssist is On
Input assigned to MixAssist
Variable Off-Attention Setting
Input not assigned to Dugan
Dugan AutoMix is On
Input assigned to Dugan
Both Auto Mixer modes are designed for use with multi-mic speech
applications and are not intended for musical applications. For more
information about each mode, see
Overview of MixAssist
and
Overview of
Dugan Automixing
.
To turn off automatic mixing for all inputs:
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From the Auto Mixer screen, select Off in the Mode section.