Quickstart; Hooking Up To The Outside World; Analog Connections; Digital Connections - Eventide Eclipse User Manual

Pressing keys is fine, but if that's all you wanted to do you'd have been better off buying an infant's "activity
center". No, the whole point is to get some of that Eventide goodness into your music, and that's just what
we're gonna do now...
The Eclipse will sum analog and digital inputs and will output both analog and digital signals at all times.
see the separate "Eclipse System Signal Flow" sheet for all the gory details

Analog Connections

Insert either an unbalanced 1/4-inch cable (at –10dB) or a balanced XLR
cable (at +4dB) into one or both analog inputs
could come from a mixer or a preamplifier. You can plug a guitar directly
into the Eclipse, but you'll have to crank the gain (
Even then, the signal may not be optimal. Instead, we recommend using a
preamp or effects loop.
Connect balanced 1/4-inch or XLR cables to the analog outputs (both will be operational). These could lead
to a mixer or an amplifier. Using an unbalanced 1/4-inch cable at the output will halve (-6dB) the output
level.
see page 9

Digital Connections

OK, this is meant to be a Quickstart section, so we're going to keep things as simple as possible. If some-
thing doesn't make sense or if things aren't working as you expect them to,
go to page 24.
To input digital audio, first plug a cable into an appropriate port on the
back panel. Next, select from
DIG-IN (DIG-IN) . If you select
which two channels the Eclipse will process by repeatedly pressing the
{ADAT-IN} soft key. Next, you will probably want to set
to .
(CLOCK) DigIn
All of the digital outputs send live signals all of the time! However, they only
send one protocol. Select that protocol under
Under (CS-TYPE) select
XLR digital outputs, and
RCA or optical (non-ADAT) digital outputs.
To output the ADAT protocol through the optical output, set
DIG-OUT (OPTICAL) to
lect which channels will receive processed audio (
receive the signal supplied at the ADAT input (
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Eclipse User Manual
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Quickstart

Hooking Up To the Outside World

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XLR RCA Optical
ADAT , use the {ADAT-IN}
SETUP DIG-OUT FORMAT
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if you are primarily interested in using the
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(see page 9)
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ADAT
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