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2117 East 5th Street

Superior, WI  54880 USA

tel: 715-398-3627

fax:  715-398-3279

www.cranesong.com

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PERATOR'S 

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ANUAL

Version 1 first data

20090110

© 2008 Crane Song, LTD.        Subject to change without notice.          Printed in the U.S.A.

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Summary of Contents for Egret

Page 1: ...ast 5th Street Superior WI 54880 USA tel 715 398 3627 fax 715 398 3279 www cranesong com OPERATOR S MANUAL Version 1 first data 20090110 2008 Crane Song LTD Subject to change without notice Printed in the U S A 1 ...

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Page 3: ...stereo bus level control which is a stepped attenuator has 1 db steps for most of its range This allows for accurate gain control repeatability and stereo gain matching to better than 05 db The headphone system allows a monitor mix to be created when Egret is being used in multi channel location recording Thus allowing the monitoring of all channels The D A converters support sample rates up to 19...

Page 4: ...TON BY PRESSING THIS IN THE EXTERNAL ANALOG SOURCE IS SELECTED WITH IT OUT THE CHANNELS D A CON VERTER IS SELECTED AUX LEVEL THIS IS FOR USE AS AN EFFECTS SEND IT IS POST LEVEL COLOR THE COLOR KNOB PROVIDES AN ADJUSTABLE TAPE LIKE COLOR THAT SOFTENS TRANSITS AND ADDS SECOND AND THIRD ORDER HARMONICS PAN POSITIONS THE CHANNEL OUTPUT THROUGH THE LEFT RIGHT STEREO BUS LEVEL THE CHANNEL LEVEL OR FADER...

Page 5: ...EL SETTING SRC THIS DISABLES THE SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER THE SRC WILL REDUCE THE JITTER OF THE INCOMMING DIGI TAL AUDIO THIS ALSO ALLOWS THE USE OF BETTER FILTERS IN AUDIO RECONSTRUCTION SOURCE THIS IS DIGITAL INPUT SELECTION IT HAS 3 CHOICES THE LEFT MOST IS AES EBU THE MIDDLE POSITION IS ADAT INPUT THE RIGHT POSITION IS FOR FUTURE EXPAN SION PHONES HEADPHONE MONITORING OF THE STEREO BUS METER THE ...

Page 6: ... TO 8 DIRECT ANALOG OUTPUTS SELECT DIGITAL SOURCE CHANNELS 1 TO 8 DIRECT ANALOG INPUTS INPUT CHANNEL 1 OF 8 SHOWN LEVEL AUX SEND PAN DISCRETE STEREO SUMMING BUS WITH STEPPED ATTENUATOR AUX SUMMING BUS AUX ANALOG OUTPUT COLOR XLR XLR TRS STEREO ANALOG OUTPUT EXPANDER INPUT OUTPUT HEADPHONES ...

Page 7: ...USING THE DIRECT ANALOG OUTPUT AND THE ANALOG INPUT AS AN INSERT POINT RETURN FORM EXTERNAL DEVICE SEND TO EXTERNAL DEVICE ...

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Page 9: ...AES INPUTS CHANNELS 1 8 SAMPLE RATE TO 192K ADAT INPUT INPUT A IS THE 48K INPUT INPUT B IS THE SECOND SET OF CHANNELS IN THE SMUX MODE DIGITAL INTERFACE ...

Page 10: ...NIT THIS IS THE MASTER OUTPUT EGRET THE MASTER LEVEL CONTROLS ON THIS UNIT CHANGES THE BUS OUTPUT LEV ELS FOR THE SYSTEM LINK CABLE SOURCE CABLE END DESTINATION CABLE END In ths configuration each of the two Egrets has 8 digital analog inputs for a total of 16 inputs Linking the units together works by tieing the summing bus inputs to the approate outputs The source and destination units are selec...

Page 11: ...N THIS UNIT CHANGES ONLY THE LEVELS OF THIS EGRET SUMMING INTO THE THIRD EGRET EGRET 2 THE SOURCE THIS EGRET FEEDS THE THIRD EGRET THE MASTER LEVEL CONTROLS ON THIS UNIT CHANGES ONLY THE LEVELS OF THIS EGRET SUMMING INTO THE THIRD EGRET In ths configuration each of the three Egrets has 8 digital analog inputs for a total of 24 inputs Linking the units together works by tieing the summing bus input...

Page 12: ...LEFT 2 RETURN 8 GND 9 LEFT SEND MAIN OUT 10 LEFT SEND MAIN OUT 11 RIGHT SEND MAIN OUT 12 RIGHT SEND MAIN OUT 13 AUX RETURN 1 SIG 14 AUX RETURN 1 SIG 15 AUX RETURN 2 SIG 16 AUX RETURN 2 SIG 17 GND 18 SOLO BUS LOGIC 19 SOLO BUS LOGIC 20 GND 21 GND 22 GND 23 AUX SEND 24 AUX SEND 25 EGRET DB 25 EXPANDER CONNECTOR PIN OUT ...

Page 13: ...1 1 14 14 25 13 25 13 2 UNIT EXPANSION CONNECTOR ...

Page 14: ...RETURN 2 LEFT 1 RETURN 3 LEFT 1 RETURN 4 AUX RETURN 1 SIG 14 AUX RETURN 1 SIG 15 AUX RETURN 2 SIG 16 AUX RETURN 2 SIG 17 GND 18 SOLO BUS 19 SOLO BUS 20 GND 21 GND 22 GND 23 A cable with a twist By putting a twist in a ribbon cable and leaving some pins out it is possible the make a simple two Egret link cable to 16 channels of summing Blue pins are removed for the connectors THIS END IS THE SOURCE...

Page 15: ...s Sig Pin 1 is GND Connections Power 100 120 230 240 volt 50 60 Hz 55 watts MDL 0 6A Fuse for 100V and 120V MDL 0 3A Fuse for 230V and 240V Pilot Lamp 7335 Shipping Weight 19 lbs 8 6 kg Depth Behind Panel 12 5 inches 31 75 cm plus cabling Panel Height 2 rack spaces ...

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