Using Internal Effects - Mackie Digital 8 Bus Owner's Manual

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Using Internal Effects

The Digital 8•Bus comes with one DSP card
installed to provide two stereo effects. Three
additional cards can be installed for a total of up
to eight mono-in, stereo-out internal effects
available simultaneously.
The console ships with the Mackie FX
(MFX•8 ™ ) plug-in installed. This plug-in provides
five useful effects that can be globally selected
and used with the aux sends and FX returns.
Each effect has a 3-Band Parametric EQ which
filters the signal prior to the actual effect.
3-Band Parametric EQ
This provides a low-shelving filter with a corner
frequency at 100Hz, a mid-band fully parametric
EQ, and a high-shelving filter with a corner fre-
quency at 10kHz.
Low Shelf Gain: This adjusts the boost and cut
below 100Hz. This is calibrated in decibels (dB),
with a range from –12 dB to +12 dB.
High Shelf Gain: This adjusts the boost and
cut above 10kHz. This is calibrated in decibels
(dB), with a range from –12 dB to +12 dB.
TO PASTE GATE SETTINGS
From the console:
1. Press the SELECT button on the
2. Press the PASTE button in the
COPY
UNDO
TO PASTE GATE SETTINGS
From the screen:
1. Click and hold on the MENU button in
2. Drag down to "Paste." The gate set-
Mid Gain: This adjusts the boost and cut at
the mid-frequency setting. This is calibrated in
decibels (dB), with a range from –12 dB to +12 dB.
Mid Frequency: This adjusts the center fre-
quency of the parametric EQ. This is calibrated
in Hertz (Hz), with a range from 100Hz to
10kHz.
Mid Q: This adjusts the bandwidth of the fre-
quencies affected by the parametric EQ. It is a
unit-less measure, with a range from 0.1 to 10.
A low Q setting provides a very tight bandwidth
(less than an octave), and a high Q setting pro-
vides a very wide bandwidth (covering several
octaves).
Reverb
This uses a room reverberation algorithm that
provides the following controls:
Room Size: This adjusts the time between re-
flections to simulate different room sizes. It is
calibrated in meters (m), with a range from 3.0m
(small) to 40.0m (large).
channel you want to edit.
Clipboard Section. Or press the Select
button under "PASTE" in the Fat
channel display.
the Gate control panel.
tings for the selected channel are
replaced with the settings that are
stored in the clipboard memory.
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