Operation Manual

INTEGRATING THE EF2280 INTO YOUR SYSTEM
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gate a channel on if it is more than 10 dB louder than the background noise level.
Values range from 0 to 100 dB. To set the gate ratio, scroll through the gate ratio
range and select the desired gate ratio by pressing E
NTER.
Manual Threshold. Sets the automixer gating threshold for the specified input
channel. This value is only used if the input set to Manual Gating via the
T
HRESHOLD TYPE option.
Microphone Priority. The priority of each microphone can be assigned a value
ranging from 1 to 4. Priority 1 microphones have priority over priority 4 micro-
phones for gating. The default is to have all microphones set to priority 1. If
Chairman Mode is enabled, all microphones including ones with priority of 1
will be gated off when the Chairman mic gates on.
A UTOMIXER S ETTINGS FOR M ULTIPLE EF2280 S
When using more than one EF2280 in your room system, you have several possibili-
ties for how you configure the automixer. Each EF2280 can operate as one of the fol-
lowing:
• One automixer, independent of other EF2280s linked to it
• Two automixers, independent of other EF2280s linked to it
• One large automixer, sharing automixer functions with other EF2280s linked to it
• Two large automixers, sharing automixer functions with other EF2280s linked to
it
Automixer and Bus
Mixer Settings
To operate the EF2280 in any of the above possibilites, two global parameters need to
be changed: the A
UTOMIXER and the BUS MIXER (see Figure 16). The AUTOMIXER
parameter chooses which automixer the input channel will be on (this is changed
either on the A
UTOMIXER page in Conference Composer or on the MATRIX MIXER
page).
The B
US MIXER parameter is used to assign one of the two internal automixers to one
of the EF Bus automixer groups. For example, consider three EF2280s each of which
has four microphones assigned to Automixer 1 and 4 microphones assigned to Auto-
mixer 2. Now, if each of these EF2280s sets their Automixer 1 to have Bus ID 5, then
the three automixers (one from each EF2280) will work as a single automixer con-
taining 12 (3 x 4) microphones. Setting B
US MIXER to 0 means that the automixer is
not grouped on the EF Bus.
Figure 16. EF2280 Automixer Settings in Conference Composer Software