Control Room/Phones; Pre-Fader Solo (Pfl); Rude Solo; Assign To Main - Mackie 1202 VLZ Owner's Manual

Now you know how to select the signals you
want to send to the engineer's control room or
phones. From there, these signals all pass
through the same level control, aptly named:

CONTROL ROOM/PHONES

As you might expect, this knob controls the
levels of both the stereo CONTROL ROOM
and PHONES outputs
outputs
trol range is from off through unity gain at the
detent, with 10dB of extra gain (when turned
fully clockwise).
When MAIN MIX is your SOURCE selec-
tion, those signals will now pass through two
level controls on the way to your control room
amp and phones — the MAIN MIX knob and
this CONTROL ROOM / PHONES knob. This
way, you can send a nice healthy level to the
MAIN OUTS (MAIN MIX knob at "U"), and a
quiet level to the control room or phones
(CONTROL ROOM / PHONES knob wherever
you like it).
When ALT 3-4 or TAPE is selected, or SOLO
is engaged, CONTROL ROOM / PHONES
knob will be the only one controlling these
levels (channel controls not withstanding).
Whatever your selection, you can also use
the CONTROL ROOM outputs for other appli-
cations. Its sound quality is just as impeccable
as the MAIN OUTS. It can be used as addi-
tional MAIN MIX output, which may sound
silly since there are already three, but this one
has its own level control. However, should you
do something like this, be sure that you do not
engage a SOLO switch, as that will interrupt
your SOURCE selection.

PRE-FADER SOLO (PFL)

Engaging a channel's SOLO switch
cause this dramatic turn of events: Any exist-
ing SOURCE matrix selections will be replaced
by the SOLO signal, appearing at the CON-
TROL ROOM outputs, PHONES outputs, and
at the right meter. The audible SOLO levels
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are then controlled by the CONTROL ROOM /
PHONES knob. The SOLO levels appearing on
the right meter display
anything — you wouldn't want that. You want
to see the actual channel level on the meter
display regardless of how loud you're listening.
"PRE-FADER" SOLO means that the channel
signal is being tapped before the channel's
GAIN knob (not really a fader in this case, but
. The con-
we were afraid you'd laugh if we called it Pre-
Knob Solo). It does, however, obey TRIM, LOW
CUT and EQ settings, making it the perfect tool
for quick inspections of suspect channels. The
channel's PAN and MUTE/ALT 3-4 settings have
no effect on the SOLO signal.
Note: For stereo channels 5-12, the solo signal
is the mono sum of the left (odd-numbered)
and right (even-numbered) signals for that
channel strip.
below "U" (unity gain), SOLO won't know
that, and will send a unity gain signal to
the CONTROL ROOM, PHONES and meter
display. That may result in a startling level
boost at these outputs.
AUX 1 MASTER
MON/PRE
POST
will
CONTROL
ROOM
are not controlled by
WARNING: PRE-FADER
SOLO taps the channel
signal before the GAIN
knob. If you have a
channel's GAIN knob set
U U
1
+10 +20
O O O O
NORMALLED
U
2
AUX
AUX 1

EFX TO

+20 RETURN
O O
SELECT MONITOR

POWER

LEFT RIGHT

0dB=0dBu

SOURCE
+28 CLIP
+10
MAIN
MIX
+7
+4
ALT 3 - 4
+2
0
-2
TAPE
-4
-7
LEVEL SET
-10
ASSIGN
TO MAIN MIX
-20
-30
RUDE
SOLO
LIGHT
U
U U
BAL
MAX +10dB
O O O O
/ PHONES MAIN MIX