User guide

Dugan Model E-3 User Guide

Model E-3 Modes

The Model E-3 can operate in eight-, fourteen-, or sixteen-channel modes.

Eight-channel

This mode uses both the main and auxiliary AES connectors to offer these features:

• The Dugan Speech System™ automatically manages live mics in any situation

where dialogue is unscripted.

• The Dugan Music System™ offers automatic downward expansion to help reduce

feedback and bleed in live music performances (i.e., opera, background vocals).

Thresholds are adjusted automatically by monitoring ambient noise levels.

• Dugan Gain Limiting™ monitors the number-of-open-mics (NOM) and adjusts

the master gain to prevent feedback or ambient noise build-up. Dugan Gain Lim-

iting should be used with the Dugan Music System to reduce feedback and noise.

It can perform the same functions when mics are switched on and off manually.

• An internal mix bus matrix routes processed or unprocessed inputs to six mix bus

outputs.

• Alternate outputs provide convenient pre-processing signals for multitrack re-

cording.

Fourteen-channel

If you need just the Dugan Speech System, fourteen channels of automixing are

available using both the main and auxiliary AES connectors.

Sixteen-channel

If you need just the Dugan Speech System, sixteen channels of automixing are avail-

able using both the

AUD and LINK ADAT optical connectors. Linking multiple Dugans

is not available in this mode.