Monitoring - Solid State Logic Matrix 2 Owner's Manual

Chapter 3 - Analogue Signal Flow

Monitoring

Control Room Monitors
The MAIN MONITOR
the Master Channel. The blue pot towards the bottom left of the area is the volume
control for the main monitors, and beneath it are two buttons. The left button,
labelled DIM, immediately reduces the volume of the monitoring. The amount of
gain reduction introduced by the
controlled by the DIM
main volume control. The button to the right of the
mutes the monitoring. Both the
are active.
In the right half of the monitoring area are 10 buttons, which will be described in
ascending order:
Pressing MINI swaps the monitoring output from the main monitors to the near-field
monitors. The mini's have an independent volume control which is the bottom of the
three grey pots, immediately above the main monitor volume control. To return to
hearing the main monitors, press the
left-right summed signal to both speakers. Pressing and holding
of the left-hand monitor signal. You can monitor the stereo difference (L-R) signal by
pressing øL when the MONO
The next five buttons above the
bus. These include the
Each buttons lights when active.
Note that while the other buttons light yellow, the
Normally these buttons cancel each other (in other words, if you select one source, the previously selected source is automatically
deselected). However, the summing button (S), located immediately above the five source selector buttons, removes the
intercancelling feature and instead sums all selected inputs, enabling multiple sources to be monitored simultaneously. Deselecting
the S button cancels all monitoring sources and returns the monitoring to intercancelling mode.
The top button in the monitoring area, labelled
restoring the monitoring source selection in the buttons beneath it. The
channel or bus in solo or AFL mode somewhere on the desk, as does the
Note that the small light marked
the analogue channels.
External Monitoring Inputs
Matrix allows up to three external audio sources to feed the monitoring - two analogue and one digital. On the console, these
are labeled DIGITAL, EXT1
to the iJack socket in the consoles right-hand trim, this signal will replace the
After Fade Listen (AFL)
The pot labelled AFL located at the top of the monitoring area sets the main monitoring volume for the stereo AFL function.
Pressing any AFL button on the centre section will replace the current feed to the monitors with the post-level signal (and in the
case of the Matrix channels, post level and pan) associated with that
signals together. AFLs can be cancelled by pressing the
section AFLs are unaffected by the solo monitoring soft key options detailed on Page 42.
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area of the Matrix centre section is located to the right of
DIM button ranges from –3dB to –30dB and is
pot, which is the middle of the three grey pots above the
DIM and CUT
MINI button again. Pressing
button has been selected.
øL button form the source selector for the monitor
MIX and REC busses along with three external inputs described below: DIGITAL,
SOLO
beneath the
and EXT2. and their connections are described in Chapter 1. If an MP3 player or iPod is connected
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DIM button, labelled CUT,
buttons light up to indicate that they
MONO
øL inverts the phase
REC bus lights red in keeping with its colour coding.
SOLO CLEAR, clears any
MAIN MONITOR
AFL
SOLO CLEAR button or by deselecting any active
MASTER/FOCUS
sends a
DIM
SOLO or AFL buttons that are active on the desk,
SOLO CLEAR button lights to indicate that there is a
SOLO light located above the VU meters.
area displays the solo status of the DAW, not
EXT1 signal.
button. Pressing multiple AFLs will sum the selected
iJack
CUT
EXT2 and EXT1.
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AFL buttons. Centre
iJack
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