Quickstart; Hooking Up To The Outside World; Analog Connections; Digital Connections - Eventide Eclipse User Manual

Pressing keys is fine, but if that's all you wanted to do you'd have been better off buying an infant's "ac-
tivity center". No, the whole point is to get some of that Eventide goodness into your music, and that's
just what we're gonna do now...
The Eclipse will sum analog and digital inputs and will output both analog and digital signals at all times.
 see the separate "Eclipse System Signal Flow" sheet for all the gory details

Analog Connections

Insert either an unbalanced 1/4-inch cable (at –10dB) or a balanced XLR
cable (at +4dB) into one or both analog inputs
could come from a mixer or a preamplifier. You can plug a guitar directly
into the Eclipse, but you'll have to crank the gain (
Even then, the signal may not be optimal. Instead, we recommend using a
preamp or effects loop.
Connect balanced 1/4-inch or XLR cables to the analog outputs (both will be operational). These could
lead to a mixer or an amplifier. Using an unbalanced 1/4-inch cable at the output will halve (-6dB) the
 see page 9
output level.

Digital Connections

OK, this is meant to be a Quickstart section, so we're going to keep things as simple as possible. If
something doesn't make sense or if things aren't working as you expect them to, go to page 24.
To input digital audio, first plug a cable into an appropriate port on the
back panel. Next, select from
DIG-IN (DIG-IN)
. If you select
lect which two channels the Eclipse will process by repeatedly pressing
{ADAT-IN}
the soft key. Next, you will probably want to set
IN (CLOCK) DigIn
to .
All of the digital outputs send live signals all of the time! However, they
only send one protocol. Select that protocol under
FORMAT (CS-TYPE)
. Under
using the XLR digital outputs, and
using the RCA or optical (non-ADAT) digital outputs.
To output the ADAT protocol through the optical output, set
DIG-OUT (OPTICAL)
to
lect which channels will receive processed audio (
will receive the signal supplied at the ADAT input (
mute
be d.
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Hooking Up To the Outside World

XLR RCA Optical
, ,
ADAT
, use the
Pro
select if you are primarily interested in
Cns
if you are primarily interested in
ADAT (ADAT-OUT)
. Then use the
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Quickstart

(see page 9)
. Such a signal
LEVELS {IN GAIN}
ADAT
, or under
SETUP
{ADAT-IN}
soft key to se-
SETUP DIG-
SETUP DIG-OUT
SETUP
soft key to se-
Ch 1 Ch 2
or ), which
Thru
), and which will
).
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