Stereo Line Inputs - AudioArts Engineering R-5 Owner's Manual

R-5 / Mar 97 R-5 / Jan 97
5) Speak normally into the microphone; the console's left and right
PROGRAM meters should respond appropriately.
6) Put on the headphones and slowly turn up the HDPN level control; you
should hear your own voice.
7) If your particular microphone does not yield a 0dB VU meter reading
when used under normal announcer conditions, first make sure any
external processing equipment being used at the channel's patch point has
its input and output gain settings properly adjusted. In other words, the
signal being returned to the console should be at the same level as the
signal leaving it (in the case of a factory calibrated console, this level will
be –2.5dBu). If it is not, make the necessary gain setting adjustment to the
external gear. If the settings are already correct, you may find it necessary,
depending on your particular microphone model and announcer mic
technique, to adjust the MIC GAIN TRIM control (at the top of the channel,
underneath the hinged meterbridge) until a 0dB reading is obtained with
normal voice input and a nominal ("two dot") fader setting.
8) If you have a microphone connected to the channel's "B" input, then
press the INPUT source select switch to activate that input (the switch will
light) and verify proper signal flow. (Note there is a separate mic input gain
trim for the "B" input.)
9) Turn off the first mic channel (press the amber OFF switch) and move
to the second mono mic input channel; repeat the same steps.
10) If the second mic input channel is used for a microphone in another
studio, and you have wired remote control functions from that studio to the
console channel, verify that these work properly. In other words, user-
supplied ON and OFF switches in the remote studio should turn the
channel ON or OFF.
11) If the channel's remote ON TALLY port has been utilized, when the
channel is ON the remote indicator in the studio (either in the studio ON
switch itself, or as a separate ON-AIR light powered by a user-supplied
circuit [see page APPENDIX, page A-2]) should be illuminated.
Mono mic input studio and control room MUTE and TALKBACK
functions are discussed later in the MONITOR CONTROL SIGNALS
section (page 8-7) of this chapter.

Stereo Line Inputs

As you test your first stereo line input channel, you will also be verifying
the console's control room (CR), STUDIO and CUE circuits. We will
therefore assume you have installed:
a) a control room amplifier/monitor speaker system and that it is
being fed by the console's CR output;
b) a studio amplifier/monitor speaker system fed by the console's
STUDIO output; and
c) an external cue amp/speaker system fed by the console's mono
CUE output. Note this external CUE speaker system is optional, as the R-
5 console already contains its own built-in cue speaker/amp combination.
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