Monitoring - Solid State Logic AWS 900+ SE Owner's Manual

Monitoring

The large knob below the 'MONITOR LEVEL' display normally sets the level of the main control room monitors.
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If you push the monitor pot, you will enter 'calibrated' mode. See 4-24 for further details.
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The column of six buttons to the right enables this control to be used for the named functions.
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You will be monitoring on whichever set of speakers is selected from the 'LS SELECT' group: the Main 5.1
speakers ('Main A' – the default with no buttons selected), ALT 5.1 ('Main B'), MINI A or MINI B.
The loudspeakers are fed from whatever source has been selected in the 'MON SRC' group of buttons.
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These include the Record bus (REC), the Mix bus (MIX), and two external source selectors, EXT A and
EXT B. Sources will be intercancelling unless the SUM button is selected. All sources to the monitoring are
stereo except those brought in via the EXT A monitor source selector (see below).
The console has three monitor modes: 5.1, DOWNMIX and MONO, selected via the 'MON MODE' group of
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buttons. 5.1 mode is the default (DOWNMIX and MONO not selected) and connects all six monitor busses
to their respective monitor outputs. Selecting DOWNMIX folds down the 5.1 inputs to the monitor path via a 5-2
matrix, and feeds the result to left and right monitor outputs. The centre channel is reduced in level by 3dB.and
fed to both left and right in this mode. MONO can be selected with or without DOWNMIX and sums the left and
right monitor busses, feeding the result equally to the left and right monitor outputs. The ØL button follows the
MONO switch and reverses the phase of the left monitor feed, providing a quick way of checking for any phase
anomalies in a stereo mix. The SOLO button turns the monitor cut buttons (see next page) into monitor solo
buttons. The SOLO CLEAR button lights when a channel SOLO button or any centre section AFL button is
pressed. Press this button to cancel any Solo/AFL/PFL function.
If either MINI A or MINI B are selected, the left and right monitor busses are fed to the corresponding stereo
mini loudspeaker output. Control the level using the main monitor pot by selecting MINI in the 'MISC LEVEL'
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. When a Mini speaker output is selected, the 5-2 DOWNMIX is automatically switched into the
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monitor circuit to deal with any 5.1 sources present.
The DIM button dims both main and mini loudspeaker outputs by a preset level. Set this level by selecting
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DIM in the 'MISC LEVELS' group and using the main monitor pot. The DIM button is automatically
activated when any of the following buttons are pressed: LISTEN, TB ALL, F/B A, F/B B, EXT T/B, Oscillator to
TRACK, REC or MIX.
7 The CUT button cuts the monitor feeds to whichever set of monitors is selected. CUT is activated
automatically by the SLATE talkback button.
CUT and DIM can also be activated externally via the GPIO/Talkback connector.
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