QSC TouchMix-16 Self-Manuald Tour

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Page 1: Table Of Contents
TouchMix. Click on a chapter title below, or follow the guide from start to finish for the complete TouchMix Tour. The example images portray a TouchMix-16 running firmware version 3.0, but the TouchMix-8 and TouchMix-30 Pro are nearly identical in operation. The “Home” icon on the bottom of each page will bring you back to select another chapter.
Page 2: Navigation
1. NAVIGATION Let’s go through some basic controls and navigation. First you’ll need to know how to power Up/Down the mixer: • Press the Power/Standby button on the right-hand side of the mixer to power on the mixer (Image 1.1). •...
Page 3 1. NAVIGATION (Cont’d) • Select “Default” under the Factory bank. Press “Recall” in the lower left-hand corner (Image 1.4). Now press “Home” button to get back to your main faders and begin mixing. Image 1.4 • Select a Channel Fader (Image 1.5) by touching it.
Page 4 1. NAVIGATION (Cont’d) Now that you’ve got the basic control of the mixer down, let’s dive a little deeper and explore the Channel Strip of a channel. • Open a chanel’s Channel Strip by touching the channel name above the fader (Image 1.7). Image 1.7 Here you will find the Overview, EQ, Compressor and Gate for the Input you have selected.
Page 5 1. NAVIGATION (Cont’d) • You can select the Channel Compressor (Comp) and Gate by touching their respective tabs at the top of the screen (Image 1.10). Touching RTA On displays the channel’s Real Time Analyzer. Image 1.10 • Once at Comp (Image 1.11) or Gate you can touch and adjust parameters with the Master-Encoder just like the Channel Faders and EQ.
Page 6 1. NAVIGATION (Cont’d) When Phantom Power is assigned to a channel, that channel will appear RED, with a “+48V” indication on the input icon (Image 1.13). Image 1.13 • To remove Phantom Power on a channel just touch it again and the Phantom Power designation will be removed (Image 1.14).
Page 7 • Select the and see the 1/3 octave GEQ tab graphic equalizer. ( ). The GEQ faders Image 1.17 may be adjusted by dragging on screen or use the Master Encoder. • The “ ” button at the top of the screen RTA On turns on the Real Time Analyzer.
Page 8: Simple / Advanced Mode
2. ADVANCED & SIMPLE MODE TouchMix caters to all levels of users. With Simple and Advanced Modes, it is easy for any user to quickly create a mix and sound great. Advanced and Simple Modes are available on a variety of different functions on the mixer including Gates, Compressors, EQ and FX.
Page 9 2. ADVANCED & SIMPLE MODE (Cont’d) You can also set the mixer to Simple or Advanced Mode globally. • Press “Menu” button (Image 2.4). Image 2.4 • “Simple” or “Advanced” (Image 2.5) in the lower right-hand portion of the screen, next to the Master Encoder (Image 1.9).
Page 10: Presets
3. PRESETS TouchMix comes equipped with a multitude of factory-programmed channel presets. These tools are designed to help you get a great live sound mix as quickly and as easily as possible. These high quality presets are good for a variety instruments, microphones and musical styles.
Page 11 3. PRESETS (Cont’d) • Select a category from the “Instrument” window. The middle window will display a list of options for that category. • Select one of these options—the right window will display a list of options for that instrument (Image 3.4).
Page 12 3. PRESETS (Cont’d) Now let’s say you’ve recalled a Preset and you’ve made some adjustments on your own. Maybe you fined-tuned the EQ, or adjusted the Compressor to better match your application. You can save those settings as your own Custom Preset and have the ability to recall it again at any time.
Page 13: Scenes
4. SCENES This is the section of the mixer in which you can create and store up to 130 Custom User Scenes. A Scene is a snapshot of the entire mixer and all of its settings. If you get the mixer dialed in for a particular venue you play often or maybe a particular band or even a song, you can save those settings as a scene and recall them at any time.
Page 14 5. EFFECTS qsctraining.com/touchmix Now that you have your mix set up and sounding good with EQ and dynamics, let’s sweeten it up even more. TouchMix comes with 6 FX Processors that can be recalled into 4 Effects Master Engines (6 for Effect TouchMix-30 Pro).
Page 15 5. EFFECTS (Cont’d) FX 2, which is set for a Lush Reverb. • Use the Master Encoder (Image 5.5) to adjust the level of the effect. We now have reverb on our channel! Now let’s make some fine adjustments to our reverb: Image 5.4 •...
Page 16: Wizards
6. WIZARDS qsctraining.com/touchmix Another great feature unique to TouchMix are the Wizards. The Gain Wizard Effects Wizard are tools that will help you set the Tuning Wizard mixer up optimally and easily. These features are designed to help you get the most out of your live performance.
Page 17 6. WIZARDS (Cont’d) that engine (Image 6.3). To setup an Effect Preset: • Select a category from the “Source” (Image 6.4) window. Image 6.4 • Select a “Type” from the middle window (Image 6.5). Image 6.5 In the last window you can choose the Preset that best fits your application.
Page 18 6. WIZARDS (Cont’d) The Gain Wizard is designed to help you get the best performance possible from your mixer by helping you set the trim level for your Input preamps. To Access the Gain Wizard: • Press the “Wizard” (Image 6.7) button on the right-hand side of the mixer.
Page 19 6. WIZARDS (Cont’d) (new with firmware Room Tuning Wizard version 3.0) assists in adjusting equalization and fine tuning a loudspeaker system to an acousti- cal space. Once the Wizard has measured and Image 6.10 compensated for room acoustics, you can apply a factory programmed response or adjust to taste.
Page 20: Auxes
7. AUXES The TouchMix 16 has 6 Mono Auxiliary Outputs and two stereo auxiliary outputs, allowing for a total of 8 separate Aux mixes. Touchmix 8 has a total of 4 Mono Auxes with a stereo output jack paralleled to Aux channels 3 and 4.
Page 21 7. AUXES (Cont’d) You can also route an individual input channel to any of the Auxes from the native Aux screen within each Input channel. To access this: • Open an Input by touching its name above the fader from the main “Home” Screen. •...
Page 22: Recording
8. RECORDING TouchMix is capable of multi-track recording all individual inputs and the stereo main mix to an external hard drive. These recordings can be exported later to be mixed and edited further using your favorite Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) or you can mix them down on your TouchMix.
Page 23 8. RECORDING (Cont’d) COMP and GATE set the pick off to “Pre.” Once we’ve created a session, we’re ready to record! • Press the “Record/Play” (Image 8.4) button once more to get back to your Image 8.4 Transport Control. • Press the “Arm” (Image 8.5) button at the bottom of the channels you want to record.
Page 24 8. RECORDING (Cont’d) begin your recording After recording, you can listen back to any or all of your recorded tracks! To listen back to tracks that have been recorded: • Press the “Arm” (Image 8.7) button to unarm the tracks that were previously recorded. Image 8.7 •...
Page 25 8. RECORDING (Cont’d) Set the Play Pointer to the beginning of the • session by touching the Return to Zero arrow (Image 8.10). Image 8.10 • You can also Reset the Recording Transport by dragging the “Play Pointer” Locator (Image 8.10) back to zero. Image 8.11 •...
Page 26: Video Training
9. VIDEO TRAINING SERIES Visit the QSC TouchMix page at http://qsc.com/products/mixers/touchmix_series/ videos, support, user docs, product registration, and more! VIDEO TRAINING SERIES An engaging, self-guided video tutorial series Part 1: TouchMix Introduction Part 7: Gain Wizard Part 2: Mixer Navigation Part 8: Recording Functions Part 3: Simple vs.

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