Setting Up; Home Recording; Setup Procedure; Setup Examples - Yamaha MG12/4 Owner's Manual

Setup Procedure

(1) Before connecting to microphones and instruments, be sure
that all devices are turned off. Also be sure that all of the
mixer's channel faders and master control faders are set all the
way down.
(2) For each connection, connect one end of the cable to the rele-
vant microphone or instrument and connect the other end to the
appropriate LINE or MIC jack on the mixer.
(LINE jacks on MG16/4: CHs 1 to 8; on MG12/4: 1 to 4. MIC
jacks on MG16/4: CHs 1 to 8, 9/10, 11/12; on MG12/4: 1 to 4,
5/6.)

Setup Examples

I Home Recording
Powered Monitor
Speakers
Master Recorder
(MD, CD-R, DAT, etc.)
MG16/4, MG12/4
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Setting Up

Effector Rhythm Machine
Effector
Sound Source (CD, MD,
DAT, cassette, video, etc.)
Personal Computer
MTR
Where an input channel provides both a MIC INPUT
NOTE
jack and a LINE INPUT jack, you may use either
one of these jacks but you may not use both at the
same time. Please connect to only one of these
jacks on each channel.
(3) To avoid causing damage to speakers, power up the devices in
the following order: Peripheral devices → mixer → power
amps (or powered speakers).
When shutting the system down, turn off the power
NOTE
in the opposite order: Power amps (powered speak-
→ →
ers) mixer
Effector
peripheral devices.
Synthesizer
MTR
Guitar
Microphone
Headphones