User Manual

FRONT PANEL OPERATION
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Monitor volume control
Control the volume of both Monitor A and B pairs
with the MONITOR knob (Figure 7-6). This knob
controls both pairs. To adjust their volume relative
to one another, use their trim controls in the
Device tab (item #20 on page 12).
Mute and Mono
Push MUTE (Figure 7-6) to temporarily silence
both Monitor output pairs (A and B). Push
MONO (Figure 7-6) to temporarily sum each pair
to mono. When summing to mono, the left and
right channels are mixed together and the
resulting mono audio stream is sent to both
outputs of the stereo pair. The resulting mono
signal is also attenuated by 3 dB to maintain the
same overall loudness of the original stereo image.
Monitor control for surround
The 828es monitor controls support 5.1 and 7.1
surround output from Analog Outputs 1-6 or 1-8,
respectively. Choose the desired format from the
Monitor A menu in the A-B Monitor Setup section
in the web app Device tab (item #33 on page 14),
as shown below in Figure 7-7. After doing so, the
MONITOR knob and MUTE button (on both the
front panel and in the web app) affect all six (or
eight) analog outputs. The MONO button does
nothing when surround monitoring is enabled. In
addition, Monitor B cannot be assigned to Analog
outputs 1-6 (or 1-8). Choose any other output pair.
Figure 7-7: Monitor control for surround.
TALKBACK
Talkback allows an engineer in the control room
to temporarily dim all audio and talk to musicians
during a recording session. Talkback requires a
microphone located in the control room, near the
engineer. The 828es provides a built-in talkback
mic on its front panel (item 3 on page 9).
Alternately, you could use an external microphone
connected to a mic input (or a line input when
combined with a separate preamp), but the built-
in mic frees up inputs for other high-priority
sources such as vocal mics, guitars, keyboards, etc.
Talkback setup
To set up talkback:
1 Route the talkback mic to a mixer input, as
demonstrated in Figure 7-9. If you are using one of
the two front-panel mic inputs for an external
talkback mic, route that input to a mixer channel.
2 Choose an Aux bus or group for talkback, as
demonstrated in Figure 7-9 with Aux 1-2, and
route it to the outputs feeding speakers (or a
headphone mixer) for the musicians.
☛ You can route talkback to as many buses and/
or groups as you wish. Route them to whatever
physical outputs are needed for your particular
setup.
3 In the Controls panel of the mixer, show the
Legend and the Talkback section (Figure 7-8).
4 For the channel assigned to the talkback mic,
enabled its Talkback source switch (Figure 7-8).
5 For the aux bus you chose for talkback in step 2,
enable its Talkback output switch (Figure 7-8). As
mentioned before, you can do so for two or more
output buses.