Table Of Contents - Mackie SR24•4 Owner's Manual

PLEASE! SAVE THE
SHIPPING BOX!
Top Ten Reasons for
saving your shipping box:
10. It's here.
9. It's yours.
8. It's paid for.
7. It's strong and sturdy.
6. It fits your mixer perfectly.
5. You will need it if you ever ship your mixer.
4. We may have to sell you another one if you
need to ship your mixer and you don't have it.
3. It will impress your friends who have no
lives when they see it in your basement.
2. It's the ecologically sound thing to do.
1. It's the Mackie sound thing to do.
Top Ten Reasons for not saving
your shipping box:
10. Your cat has already used it.
9. You stole the mixer out of a Karaoke bar.
8. Your Mackie mixer will never break.
7. You will never move again.
6. You wrote a song on it and are consider-
ing framing it.
5. You have cut off the top and are using it
as an equipment rack.
4. You really hate planning ahead because it
never works out anyway.
3. It fits some other manufacturer's product,
which is broken, perfectly.
2. You have kept all the boxes of all the other
equipment you have ever bought and you
have never used one of them ever.
1. You are afraid of corrugated products.
Please put your serial number here for
future reference (i.e. insurance claims,
tech support, return authorization, etc.):
Purchased at:
Date of purchase:
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art No. 820-029-00 Rev. C 4/97
©1997 Mackie Designs Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Printed in the U.S.A.
INTRODUCTION
MAKING SOUND COME
OUT RIGHT NOW
PANEL LAYOUT AND
FUNCTION
APPLICATIONS
APPENDICES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1: Introduction .................................. 2
Sensitivity Adjustment Procedure ................. 3
Section 2: Making sound come out right now .. 4
Hookup Diagrams ........................................... 7
Section 3: Panel layout ................................. 12
Front Panel .................................................... 12
Channel Strips 1-20 .................................... 12
Stereo Channel Strips 21/22 & 23/24 ........... 18
Output Section ........................................... 20
Subs 1-4 ................................................ 20
Master Left Right Fader ........................ 22
Tape Return .......................................... 22
Aux Send Masters ................................. 23
Stereo Aux Returns ............................... 23
Solo Master Section ............................... 24
Talkback ............................................... 25
Meters ................................................... 25
Power Indicator ..................................... 26
Rude Solo Light ..................................... 26
Lamp Connector ................................... 26
Rear Panel ....................................................... 27
Input Connectors 1-20 ........................... 27
Phantom Power ..................................... 27
Stereo Input Connectors 21/22 & 23/24 ... 28
Sub Outs ............................................... 29
Sub Inserts ............................................ 29
Main Mix Outputs ................................. 30
Main Inserts .......................................... 31
Aux Sends ............................................. 31
Stereo Aux Returns ............................... 32
Tape In and Out .................................... 32
Control Room Out ................................. 33
Phones 1 and 2 ...................................... 33
Talkback Mic ........................................ 33
Power .................................................... 33
Section 4: Applications
Sound Reinforcement ...................................... 34
Recording ........................................................ 37
Appendix A:
General Information ...................................... 39
Appendix B:
Glossary ..........................................................42
Appendix C:
Connections ................................................... 50
Appendix D:
Grounding, phantom power, etc. ................... 53
Appendix E:
Specifications and block diagram ................. 57
Appendix F:
Modifications ................................................... 60
Appendix G:
Service, free T-shirt offer & Track Sheet .......... 62
Introduction
Making
Sound Come
Out Right
Now
Layout
and Function
Applications
Appendices
1