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Hook-up/Back panel Analog Controls Digital Controls
Analog Controls
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The mic preamp input level could be set at the edge of clipping but
not actually clipping. BUT, if you boost EQ — particularly low EQ —
it adds more gain…and the channel will distort-
The OL indicator reads the output of the mic preamp AND the out-
put of the EQ section.
Pan.
On a car stereo, this would be
referred to as the BALANCE
control.
PAN adjusts the left/right
balance of the channel’s sound in
the main mix.
Mute button/
indicator.
Enables/disables the chan-
nel’s mute function. In
other words, it excludes the
channel from the mix.
If
MUTE is enabled, all
signals being sent to
AUX,
FX, and the buses specified
by the assign switches are all
muted.
The
PFL function
can always be used,
regardless of the
mute setting.
When the mute
function is enabled, the indica-
tors are lit as follows.
❚ Red: Muted by the channel’s MUTE
button
❚ Orange: Muted by the MUTE GROUP
function or the BREAK function
While the
MUTE button is a
standard feature on small mix-
ers, we have seriously enhanced
it with Mute Groups. See page
 (Mute Groups) for a complete
explanation of this
extremely useful
function
OL (Overload)
LED.
This indicator
lights when the
channel’s input
signal gets within
dB of clipping
level. Clipping is
a term for a signal
that exceeds that
capability of the
internal circuitry,
resulting in audible
distortion — just
what you try to
avoid by Level Set-
ting during sound
check.
—2 (Signal present) LED.
When this LED flashes or lights
continuously, the channel is re-
ceiving a signal of at least - dB.
It's a good way to see if whatever
is connected to the channel input
is actually making sound.
Bus Assign switches
If you want to create a submix,
you press one of more of these
buttons. That sends the chan-
nel’s signal to a
SUB GROUP MIX
BUS
as covered on page .
Channel fader
Adjusts the output level of the
signal that is input to the chan-
nel.
If a channel is not being used
reduce the fader to
∞
(off)to
avoid adding unwanted signals to
your mix.