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Line or Microphone Input Levels
The Solice mixer has been designed and optimized to provide excellent pre-
amplification of microphone level signals. In order to accept line level signals, an
input pad must be switched in. The Solice mixer contains switchable 40dB input
pads for this purpose. The switch is located on the front panel just below the Pan
pot. It is Labeled "L" for Line level signals and "M" for Microphone level signals.
Microphone Powering
The Solice Mixer is equipped to provide both 12T and 48PH microphone
powering to DIN standards. Each input channel has an individual power filter on
each of the 12T and 48PH power lines. This provides isolation between input
channels and helps keep the noise floor down when using powered
microphones. 12T microphone powering should only be used when powering
12T design microphones such as Sennheiser 416T.
48PH microphone
powering should only be used with 48PH microphones.
When using dynamic
style microphones, the microphone powering should be switched off. You should
also turn off the microphone powering when using wireless receivers.
Pre-Amplifiers
The Pre-amplifiers used in the Solice Mixer were originally designed for our
Miranda Mixer. This design is the result of many engineering hours. This new
super low-noise design uses the latest in high performance semiconductors. The
semiconductors used in the pre-amplifier design offer impressive specifications
while consuming reasonable amounts of power. The fully variable gain structure
of the pre-amplifiers allows for gain changes on the fly. You no longer have to
worry about those coarse "stepped" gain changes found in other mixer designs.
The rotary gain control offers 55dB of adjustment range for extreme flexibility.
This allows the Solice mixer to work with low gain Dynamic microphones as well
as high gain condenser microphones.
Gain Setting
Because the Solice Mixer is equipped with both Pre-fader and Post-fader input
channel meters you can easily adjust both pre-amplifier gain and channel fader
settings quickly and easily. The Pre-fader meter can be used to properly set the
pre-amplifier gain.
Simply adjust the gain setting until the meter occasional
"peaks" to the top "0" LED.
Once set, you can mix without worry as you have
approximately 18dB of additional headroom in the pre-amplifier before clipping
occurs. The Post-fader meter can be used when routing post-fader audio to the
direct line output for multi-track recording.
We believe that these two small
meters will be very helpful in your mixing endeavors.
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