Channel Pan - Solid State Logic Duality SE Operator's Manual

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At the bottom of the channel strip is a fully featured 5.1 panning section for both the Main
Mix busses as well as the 24 Track Busses. With the most complete implementation found on
any analogue console, the feature set includes a dedicated LFE send and a fully variable 'Focus'
control to alter the phantom/hard centre mix for signals located in the front channels.
The default arrangement is for stereo panning to three pairs of Main Mix busses — A, B and
C. The 24 Track Busses normally pick up the mono post fader channel output. On the centre
section routing panel, selecting PAN TO TRK routes the LR pan outputs to odd/even pairs
of Track Busses. Selecting 5.1 PAN enables the full 6-channel panning options for both the Main Mix busses and
the Track Busses, if PAN TO TRK is also selected. Local LEDs in each panning section indicate whether that
channel has been selected to either of these two modes. When 5.1 panning is not enabled, only the LR (Left/Right)
pan control is active.
If the centre section function EFX TO TRK is selected, this replaces the normal feed to the Track Busses and
defeats 5.1 panning to the busses.
The channel panning section features XY style 5.1 panning via LR (Left/Right) and FR (Front/Rear) controls with
additional LFE and Focus functions. The LFE control feeds a variable amount of the channel output to a dedicated
LFE (subwoofer) bus (see more on this in the Centre Section).
The Focus control alters the proportion of input signal fed to the front Left/Right busses and the Centre bus,
enabling channel signals to be focussed from a 'hard' centre, all the way through to a true phantom centre. As the
Focus knob is rotated clockwise from the LR position, a centrally panned signal is progressively attenuated in the
left and right busses, while the gain to the centre channel is increased. When fully clockwise, the LR pan pot becomes
a three-channel discrete LCR panner. As the Focus control is returned to the LR position, variable amounts of
divergence are introduced so that, at the 12 o'clock position, signal is present in the three front channels at equal
level. As you continue to turn before 12 o'clock, the centre channel is then progressively reduced, leaving only the
phantom (Left + Right) centre image at the fully anticlockwise position.
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