Studer OnAir 500 Modulo, Operating Instructions Manual

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OnAir 500 Digital Mixing Console
5-2 Talkback
Date printed:
30.07.04
5.2 Scenario 2 - Presenter in Studio (Talkback Swap On)
In this scenario an engineer is operating the console from the control room,
and the presenter is in the studio.
Setting
TalkBack Swap to On allows the
REV TB1
(reverse talkback) in-
put to act as the talkback channel, and vice versa.
This allows the presenter and the engineer to talk to each other without the
engineer’s microphone occupying a channel on the input control surface. A
microphone will need to be connected to the
REV TB1 input for this to work
correctly.
1
The engineer can talk to the presenter in the usual way by pressing the TALK
button, and enabling the
STUDIO
as the talkback destination. The only differ-
ence is that the talkback bus is deriving its input from the REV TB1 input and
not from the nominated talkback channel .
2
Likewise, the presenter can talk to the engineer whenever the following con-
ditions are met:
• The presenter’s channel fader is
fully closed
• The selected external remote input switch is on
• The relevant switch is set to Enable RevTB on the Remote Inputs
page.
In other words, when the presenter’s microphone is closed to take him off the
air, the presenter can speak to the engineer by pressing the external remote
input switch he is provided with. For as long as this switch is on, the program
feed to the presenter’s headphones will be dimmed, and he will be able to
talk to the engineer.
Talkback swap, in this way, allows the presenter to speak to the engineer
when he is off air, using the same microphone.
Talkback swap connects the
REV TB1
input to the studio and guest head-
phones, whereas in default mode, it would only ever go to the control room
headphones.