Mackie 1402-VLZ Pro Owner's Manual
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- Page 2 Oppenheimer, Handbook for Sound Engineers by bination of signal paths. Glen Ballou, Mackie Mixer Book by Rudy Tru- bitt, Pro Audio Reference by Dennis Bohn, and Sound Reinforcement Handbook by Gary Davis.
- Page 3 An electrical connection common to three or more circuits. In mixer design, a bus usually carries signals from a number of inputs to a mixing amplifier, just like a city bus carries peo- An input consists of two leads, neither of which ple from a number of neighborhoods to their is common to the circuit ground.
- Page 4 This “cueing” circuit the system gain in or before the gain stage in is the same as pre-fader (PFL) solo on a Mackie which the clipping occurs. Also see headroom. mixer, and often the terms are interchangeable.
- Page 5 Nobody is really sure if stop) in the travel of a knob or slide control. “u” stands for anything. Most knobs on Mackie mixers are detented to indicate their unity gain or centered position. It’s handy in the dark.
- Page 6 The opposite of peaking, of course, used in The class of microphones that generate electri- audio to describe the shape of a frequency cal signals by the movement of a coil in a mag- response curve. A dip in an EQ curve looks like netic field.
- Page 7 as an insert processor (serial) on a particular Bass and treble controls on your stereo are EQ; input or subgroup, or it may be used via the so are the units called parametrics and graphics aux send/return system (parallel). See also echo, and notch filters.
- Page 8 hold, and release time are some of the adjust- able gate parameters. An acronym for Front Of House. See house and main house speakers. Nobody involved with audio ever goes to the Back of House because they never have time to drink enough A graphic equalizer uses slide pots for its boost/ beer.
- Page 9 K” when they want you to boost plugged in, the send and return are connected 2.5 kHz. together, as if it wasn’t even there. In Mackie mixers, the insert jacks are wired with tip as send, ring as return, and sleeve as ground.
- Page 10 may have several master controls, which may be slide faders or rotary controls. See mic preamp. A knee is a sharp bend in a curve (an EQ fre- quency response or compressor gain curve) not unlike the sharp bend in your leg. The typical level of a signal from a microphone.
- Page 11 “Why did you mult the flanger into every input in the board?” An electronic device used to combine various audio signals into a common output. Different from a blender, which combines various fruits into a common libation. Long for mono. Literally, pertaining to or hav- Whatever you don’t want to hear.
- Page 12 “invisible” to ordinary dynamic microphones. Mackie mixers use stan- dard +48 volt DC power, switchable on or off. Most quality condenser microphones are designed to use +48 VDC phantom power.
- Page 13 tude but are opposite in polarity. The two legs of a differential output are 180 degrees out of phase. The phase reverse switch found on some A term used to describe an aux send (or other mixers or mic preamps actually reverses the sig- output) that is connected so that it is affected nal polarity.
- Page 14 kHz whose -3 dB points are 7.5 kHz and 12.5 can do it right on the front panel of many kHz has a Q of 2. effects units, or you can route the delay return back into itself on your mixer. Can be a great deal of fun at parties.
- Page 15 Mackie mixers call it an Aux Send. Radio Frequency Interference. High frequency radiation that often results from sparking cir- cuits. This can be manifested in a number of ways in audio systems, but is usually evident as A term used to describe the shape of an equal- a high-frequency buzz or hash sound.
- Page 16 An acronym for Sound Reinforcement, which refers to the process (or a system for) amplify- ing acoustic and electronic sounds from a per- formance or speech so that a large audience can The ringing in the ears that often results from hear clearly.
- Page 17 – no amplification, but no loss either. In Mackie mixers, unity gain is achieved by set- ting all variable controls to the marked and usu- ally detented “U” setting. Mackie mixers are optimized for best headroom and noise figures...
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