FEATURES AND CONTROLS Channel Strip Description 3-Band EQ The PPM Series has 3-band equalization at INPUT LEVEL SET carefully selected points — LOW shelving at 80Hz, MID peaking at 2.5kHz, and HI shelving If you haven’t done so already, please read at 12kHz.
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EMAC Section Description EFX Send This taps the channel’s signal out to either EMAC™ stands for Extended Multiply and the internal EMAC Digital Stereo Effects Accumulate, which is a proprietary 32-bit digital Processor or to an external device via the stereo processor developed by our Digital EFFECTS SEND jack for parallel effects pro- Engineering Group.
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EFX WIDE REVERSE: Standard reverse reverb, simulat- Depending on the effect selected, this ing a tail-first effect increasing to the original switch adds more width or depth to the effect. note. Decay range adjustable from 35ms to Note that it doesn’t work with the DELAY and 515ms.
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Delays Modulation Effects There are four delays available. Delay 1 has These include Chorus, Flange and Phaser, one repeat after the original note. Delay 2 has and are generally used for enhancement of two repeats, Delay 3 has three, and Delay 4 has instrumental music.
0 being Note: These instructions are written on the a short delay time and 10 being the longest top of the PPM Series cabinet, but we’ll repeat delay time. them here because they are so important.
Turning up the MONITOR (some condenser microphones are battery- MASTER too much can powered). The PPM Series provide +15V DC cause feedback. To reduce phantom powering on pins 2 and 3 of the XLR the possibility of feedback, connectors.
CD player while you You can connect a tape deck or CD player are on break. to the PPM Series and play back prerecorded POWER AMP ROUTING music during your breaks. The tape signal is...
INSERT MAKING THE CONNECTIONS LINE Front Panel Connections Mackie mixers have 3-pin female XLR con- nectors on all microphone inputs, so use a Connecting Microphones and Line-Level male XLR connector to connect to the mixer’s Signals mic preamps.
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The INSERT jack can also be used as a di- SLEEVE SLEEVE rect out from the mic preamps to tape. If you insert a TS (mono) 1/4" plug halfway into the INSERT jack (to the first click), the plug will TIP (HOT) not activate the jack switch and will not open SLEEVE (SHIELD)
EFFECTS SEND and RETURN Serial effects device: The EFFECTS SEND jack is wired the same as the channel INSERT jacks, so you can use it to insert a processor in EFFECTS series with the EMAC effects. Refer to the (OVERRIDES INTERNAL EFX) “Channel Inserts”...
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This completely separates the mixer from the PPM Series and use its amplifiers and con- the amplifiers, and it allows you to connect an nected speakers (see application diagram on external equalizer, compressor or effects pro- page 13).
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