Regular care and inspection will be rewarded by a long life and maximum reliability. Your Phonic PMX 2300 was carefully packed in the factory and the packing box was designed to protect the unit from rough handling. We recommend that you carefully examine the packaging and its contents for any signs of physical damage, which may have occurred in transportation.
1. INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing this 2-Zone Mixer, PMX 2300. Where there are zones, there you need a zone mixer. This unit is custom designed to the user’s specifications. It offers you 3 outputs including 2 zones (stereo) and 1 utility (mono) and 5 inputs including 3 stereo line inputs, 1 paging microphone input and 1 emergency input.
2.1 RACK MOUNTING The Phonic PMX 2300 fits into standard rack, and takes one unit height of space (1 3/4"). Additional 4" depth for the connectors on the back panel is needed. Be sure that there is enough air space around the unit for cooling and please do not place the PMX 2300 in contact to or directly on top of high temperature devices such as power amplifiers etc.
The difference in between 2 operations: Because the common mode interference immunity of balanced system, and at the same time, the ground conductor doesn’t need to carry any electrical current so that it means the ground of the 2 connected units has identical ground level which is vital to interference free system.
If the new one blows right after replacement, there must be something wrong in the unit, please call your Phonic dealer to check. NEVER use higher or lower ratings fuses or other metal material. This will cause fire or electric shocks, which...
3. CONTROLS 3.1 FRONT PANEL MICROPHONE EQUALIZER The equalizer (EQ) allows fine manipulation of the treble and middle frequency bands, and is particularly useful to improve the microphone sound. 1 1 1 1 1 . MID Turn the knob clockwise to boost 800Hz, adding fullness or adequate solidness at middle frequency. Turn the knob counter-clockwise to cut the 800Hz, reducing the excessively hard or “telephone-like”...
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ZONE 1/ ZONE 2 5 5 5 5 5 . BASS(Low frequency) Turn clockwise to boost low (bass) frequency at 100Hz by up to 15dB, adding warmth and bass depth to music. Turn counter-clockwise to cut low frequency by up to 15dB for reducing hum, stage rumble or to improve a mushy sound.
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UTILITY . VOL This knob sets how much of the gain of the selected input source is sent to the UTILITY output from –20dB to +10dB. . SOURCE This switch allows you to select one of three line inputs and one microphone source to be sent to the UTILITY output.
3.2 BACK PANEL . EMERGENCY Emergency control and audio input are for emergency paging and evacuation system. 24VDC CONTROL: A terminal block inputs accept external 24VDC regardless of the postive and negative poles to activate the emergency function, which route the external emergency message to all outputs. It provides an override control for emergency use.
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There are an XLR microphone input, a microphone gain control between +10dB~+60dB and a paging control accepting control signal from paging microphone. A mini phone jack accepts the zone control signal from the external paging mic(PHONIC ZPM-02). The following is the connection drawing: XLR MALE PLUG...
7. REFERENCE BOOKS Phonic recommends the following books for those interested in advanced audio engineering and sound sys- tem operation: Sound System Engineering by Don and Carolyn Davis, Focal Press, ISBN: 0-240-80305-1 Sound Reinforcement Handbook by Gary D. Davis, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 0-88188-...
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COPYMASTER DO NOT REMOVE NOTE! This sheet is your Copymaster. Please duplicate on photocopier when needed. Service Request Form Please complete this form and send it to Phonic before returning the unit. Attach duplicate to the returned unit. NAME__________________________ TELEPHONE_____________________________...
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