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ALLEN & HEATH ICE-16 User Manual

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  • Page 1 ICE-16D USER GUIDE Publication AP9216...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Warranty ..................Conformity Statement ............Safety Instructions ..............Packed Items Checklist ............Introduction to ICE-16D ............Applications Drawings ............Front Panel Controls & Features ......... Rear Panel Features ..............USB Direct Recording Quickstart ........Recording to USB Memory—Important Notes ....USB Memory Initialisation and Formatting......

  • Page 4: Warranty

    WARRANTY Limited One Year Warranty This product is warranted to be free from defects in materials or workmanship for period of one year from the date of purchase by the original owner. To ensure a high level of performance and reliability for which this equipment has been designed and manufactured, read this User Guide before operating.

  • Page 5: Conformity Statement

    EMC & SAFETY This product complies with the European Electro magnetic Compatibility directives 2004/108/EC and the European Low Voltage Directives 2006/95/EC. This product has been tested to EN55103 Parts 1 & 2 2009 for use in Environments E1, E2, E3, and E4 to demonstrate compliance with the protection requirements in the European EMC directive 2004/108/EC.

  • Page 6: Safety Instructions

    SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING - Read the following before proceeding : CAUTION ATTENTION: RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE – NE PAS OUVRIR WARNING: This equipment must be earthed. Read instructions: Retain these safety and operating instructions for future reference. Adhere to all warnings printed here and on the product.
  • Page 7 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Water and moisture: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock do not ex- pose the product to rain or moisture or use it in damp or wet conditions. Do not place containers of liquids on it which might spill into any openings. Ventilation: Do not obstruct the ventilation slots or position the product where the air flow required for ventilation is...

  • Page 8: General Precautions

    SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS General Precautions: Damage : To prevent damage to the controls and cosmetics avoid placing heavy objects on the control sur- face, scratching the surface with sharp objects, or rough handling and vibration. Environment : Protect from excessive dirt, dust, heat and vibra- tion when operating and storing.

  • Page 9: Packed Items Checklist

    PACKED ITEMS Check that you have received the following: ALLEN&HEATH TIME Hi Level Signal PHONES/MONITOR Record IN/OUT MONITOR MONITOR SEL USB DRIVE PREV NEXT PLAY/STOP MONITOR LEVEL ICE-16D Mains Lead This User Guide! Check that the correct mains plug is fitted. Allen &...

  • Page 10: Introduction To Ice-16D

    So the ICE-16 was born. ICE-16D incorporates fully balanced inputs and outputs on D-Sub 25pin connectors using industry standard pin assignment.

  • Page 11: Applications Drawings

    APPLICATION: RECORDING TO USB MEMORY Mics & Instruments Into console. Direct outs to Inputs on ICE-16 (Use Jack plug to D Sub loom) DIR OUT DI R OUT D IR OUT DIR OUT DI R OUT D IR OUT DIR OUT...
  • Page 12 APPLICATION: VIRTUAL SOUNDCHECK Using ICE-16D for a Soundcheck With pre-recorded instruments, vocals and drum sounds in your multi-channel Song folders, you can use ICE-16D to play individual channels to the line inputs of a mixing console so that you can set eq, monitor sends and create a mix even before the band arrives, leaving you to set the levels for the microphones and plug them into the designated...
  • Page 13 APPLICATION: RECORDING STUDIO Artists’ monitor amplifiers & speakers Control room monitors ICE-16 outs to CRM etc. ALLEN&HEATH TIME Hi Level Signal PHONES/MONITOR Record MONITOR SEL IN/OUT MONITOR USB DRIVE PREV NEXT PLAY/STOP MONITOR LEVEL ICE-16D To 2nd ICE Pre-Amp unit...

  • Page 14: Front Panel Controls & Features

    ICE-16D FRONT PANEL FEATURES ALLEN&HEATH TIME Hi Level Signal PHONES/MONITOR Record MONITOR SEL IN/OUT MONITOR USB DRIVE PREV NEXT PLAY/STOP MONITOR LEVEL Channel Monitoring and Metering A switch per channel sends either the input or the output (depending on the IN/OUT switch) for that channel to the headphones monitor circuit, Multiple channels can be selected at once to create a mix of channels.

  • Page 15: Rear Panel Features

    ICE-16D REAR PANEL FEATURES Mains Power Supply, Switch and Fuse Standard IEC mains power inlet. The ICE-16D accepts mains voltages from 90V to 265V at either 50Hz or 60Hz. The On/Off switch powers the unit on or off. The mains fuse is housed in the 20mm fuse holder Sync IN/OUT Connectors 9 pin mini DIN connectors.

  • Page 16: Usb Direct Recording Quickstart

    TIME TIME TIME DEL+REC for 1 second. The display will show “For” and the dots will flash. The memory will be tested (display “tst) and the ICE-16 will au- Record Record Record Record tomatically be set to either 24bit (“Hi”) or 16bit (“Lo”) mode depending on the memory quality.

  • Page 17: Recording To Usb Memory-Important Notes

    RECORDING DIRECT TO USB MEMORY Please read these important notes regarding ICE-16D and USB memory devices. Functional Overview: There are no drivers required for this functionality—ICE-16D is ready to record to USB memory straight out of the box. One of the first things to say is that USB memory devices have variable performance, depend- ing on type and manufacture.

  • Page 18: Usb Memory Initialisation And Formatting

    RECORDING DIRECT TO USB MEMORY USB Memory Insert memory Initialisation & Test Is memory previously initialised by ICE? Test memory Set to 24 bit Too Slow Set to 16 bit Error Format Memory (DEL+REC) Any previous Recordings? Ready. No Recordings Ready.

  • Page 19: Usb Recording Front Panel Controls

    RECORDING DIRECT TO USB MEMORY Short press button functions * Rec = Recording mode; Pls = Playlist mode Button State Mode Comment Display PLAY/STOP Idle Rec/Pls * Play selected song Song no. PLAY/STOP Playing Rec/Pls Stop playing Song no. PLAY/STOP Recording Stop recording Song no.

  • Page 20: Recording To Usb Memory-Further Notes

    RECORDING DIRECT TO USB MEMORY More notes on USB memory recording user interface Slow Memory write speed (Display Slo) If you get the Slo message when a new USB memory device is inserted, try re-formatting the device using ICE-16D. Press and hold DEL + REC then confirm the formatting with the PLAY/STOP key.
  • Page 21 .wav audio files. The Records folder is where your ICE-16 recordings are stored, under sub folders Song _01 for the first recording, Song_02 for the second and so on.

  • Page 22: Playlist Mode

    PLAYLIST MODE You can use ICE-16 to play audio music files (.wav) from the Music folder on your USB memory device for situations such as background music, pre-show & interval music, sound effects, or situations where a very large amount of consecutive audio needs to be played.

  • Page 23: Firewire Driver-Installation (Pc)

    INSTALLING THE FIREWIRE DRIVERS Connecting to a computer via FireWire. The ICE-16 can either be connected to a computer for streaming digital audio via FireWire or USB, or it can be used as a standalone recording device. Here we describe the FireWire connection and driver installation.
  • Page 24 INSTALLING THE FIREWIRE DRIVERS (PC) At this point connect the ICE-16 (either FireWire port) to your com- puter using a commercially available IEEE1394 FireWire cable. Then switch on the ICE-16. In order to comply with EMC/FCC performance standards, a FireWire...

  • Page 25: Firewire Driver-Control Panel (Pc)

    Click Input Channels in the menu pane on the left to view or edit details of the audio channels going to the com- puter from ICE-16. Here you can edit the channel names and include the device (unit) name in the ASIO display name which will appear in your audio software.
  • Page 26 The clock master can be set to be the ICE-16 internal clock (recommended) or the pc driver. The sample rate can be selected to be set manually or by the clock master.

  • Page 27: Usb Driver-Installation (Pc)

    Connecting to a computer via USB 2.0 The ICE-16 can either be connected to a computer for streaming digital audio via Firewire or USB 2.0, or it can be used as a standalone recording device. Here we describe the USB 2.0 connection and driver installation.
  • Page 28 INSTALLING THE USB DRIVERS (PC) Connect the ICE-16 to your computer using a standard commercially available USB (A to B) cable. Switch on the ICE-16. Click Next You may find an additional dialogue window about Logo testing, sometimes behind another window! Click Continue anyway in order to finish the installation.

  • Page 29: Usb Driver-Control Panel (Pc)

    Click Input Channels in the menu pane on the left to view or edit details of the audio channels going to the com- puter from ICE-16. Here you can edit the channel names and include the device (unit) name in the ASIO display name which will appear in your audio software.
  • Page 30 The clock master can be set to be the ICE-16 internal clock or the pc driver. The sample rate can be selected to be set manually or by the clock master. Manually is recommended as a default, the sample rate can still be set by your DAW in this setting.

  • Page 31: Connecting To A Mac Computer

    CONNECTING ICE-16 TO A MAC COMPUTER SNOW LEOPARD SHOWN ICE-16 is Core Audio compliant so there are no drivers required for Mac computers. Simply connect your ICE-16 to your Mac using either a FireWire or USB 2.0 cable and open Audio/MIDI devices/Audio Devices to view the connected devices and settings.
  • Page 32 CONNECTING ICE-16 TO A MAC COMPUTER MOUNTAIN LION SHOWN Here you can see two ICE-16 devices connected to a Mac running Mountain Lion, An Aggregate device has also been configured at the bottom of the list and named ICE-32. You can set your iTunes playback to any of the device channels by clicking Configure Speakers.

  • Page 33: Usb Memory Recording-Synchronising Units

    This feature allows two or more ICE-16 or ICE-16D units to be connected together in order to synchronise the audio files being recorded to USB memory. The ICE-16 has two 8 pin Mini DIN sockets (SYNC IN & OUT) on the rear panel for this purpose. You will need a Mini DIN 8 pin lead of not more than 2 metres in length for each unit to be synchronised to the master unit.
  • Page 34 These can be re-named as preferred when copying to a computer. 10. To delete a song, select using the PREV and NEXT keys on the master ICE-16, the song should also be selected on the slave unit (follows the master selection). Press DEL on the master and press PLAY/STOP to confirm on both master and slave units.

  • Page 35: Connecting Audio To Ice-16D

    CONNECTING AUDIO TO ICE-16D MATRIX EXT IN LAMP MONITOR LAMP DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT MIC OUT (BREAKPOINT) MIC OUT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT MATRIX INSERT INSERT INSERT INSERT INSERT...

  • Page 36: Specifications

    SPECIFICATIONS Operating Levels Input Mono input on 8 channel 25 pin D Sub sockets. +4dBu nominal (+26dBu maximum) Output Mono output on 8 channel 25 pin D Sub sockets. +4dBu nominal (+26dBu maximum) Headphones 1/4” TRS and 3.5mm Jack sockets (mono) 150mW minimum 30 ohms to 300ohms Frequency Response Input to output...
  • Page 37 SPECIFICATIONS FireWire Streaming IEEE1394 standard AS400 Number of ICE-16 devices on bus 2 maximum Audio data 24 bit up to 96kHz Synchronisation Internal clock or bus USB Streaming USB standard USB 2.0 Number of ICE-16 devices on bus 1 maximum...

  • Page 38: Dimensions & Weights

    DIMENSIONS 482mm (19 inches) ALLEN&HEATH TIME Hi Level Signal PHONES/MONITOR Record MONITOR SEL IN/OUT MONITOR USB DRIVE PREV NEXT PLAY/STOP MONITOR LEVEL 44mm (1.73 inches) excluding feet. Weight Unpacked 3.5kg (7.7 lb) Packed 5kg (11 lb) Fitting to a 19” rack ALLEN&HEATH TIME TIME...

  • Page 39: Block Diagram

    BLOCK DIAGRAM SCHEMATIC ICE-16D SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM TIME BALANCED LINE IN CONTROL INTERFACE BALANCED LINE OUT +4dBu Nominal +4dBu Nominal PREV NEXT PLAY/STOP USB Memory HOST PORT STREAMING CONTROLLER 9-16 9-16 IEEE1394 USB 2.0 DEVICE PORTS SUMMING MONITOR HEADPHONES (MONO) CHANNEL 16 ONLY SHOWN FOR CLARITY...
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  • Page 41 NOTES...

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