User manual MACKIE HDR96 GUIDE

[. . . ] Since 1992, we've been including these helpful "connection maps" in our In Your Face product guides, and we've been urged to continue doing so because they're so gosh-darned helpful. Now, we've split our hook-ups into product famlies, and made them available to you over this new-fangled "Internet" thingy that everyone is talking about these days. There will be documents that cover hooking up our compact VLZ® PRO Series, Analog 8·Bus Series consoles, CFX Series effects mixers, DFX Series compact effects mixers, the D8B digital console, the HDR24/96 hard disk recorder, PPM Series powered mixers, the FR Series amplifiers, SR Series front-of-house mixers, and our Active loudspeakers. [. . . ] They're aching to share their knowledge with you. (And calling them would be a very humanitarian thing to do -- they're located in the dank sub-basement of our building and they rarely get visitors. Your call just may be the one that keeps their spirits alive. ) Call Mackie Tech Support toll-free (in the U. S. ) at 800-258-6883 (Monday through Friday, 7 AM to 5 PM Pacific Time) with any Mackie productquestion you can conjure. Incidentally, the Mackie Product Hook-Up Guide (Web Editions) were put together from within the confines of the Mackie Digital Mosh Pit -- located on the second floor near the Area Of Refuge -- by the well-meaning, super-preening Mackie Macintosh Department. We used Adobe InDesign®, Illustrator®, Photoshop®, and Acrobat® on a number of suped-up big daddy Macs. Oh yeah: Copyright © 2002 Mackie Designs Inc. The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of Mackie Designs Inc. : "MACKIE. ", the "Running Man" figure, VLZ, XDR, D8B, HUI, CFX Series, FR Series, and HR Series. MIXER INSERT COMPRESSOR OUT IN A VISUAL GUIDE to the wonderful world of digital connectors. It was so much easier when there were only a couple of kinds of analog plugs. And what's worse, two of the digital connectors (AES/EBU & S/PDIF) look like an analog jacks but emphatically aren't. Plus one of them looks like an analog connector (SMPTE) and is basically the same as the corresponding analog plug. Even if you're a whiz at soldering, we don't recommend trying to cobble up any of the digital plug and connectors shown on this page. These cables transmit far higher frequencies than analog audio and require arcane shielding and pin polarities. If you're making digital connections to our HDR24/96, or Digital 8·Bus, we recommend biting the bullet and buying pre-made versions from your friendly Mackie dealer. Purchasing good quality cables now can prevent a lot of troubleshooting down the line. DIGITAL PRO AUDIO PLUGS AND CONNECTORS MIDI (Plug) KNOW YOUR PLUGS MIDI (Jack) Welcome Used for sending or receiving MIDI Time Code (MTC) or MIDI Machine Control (MMC) between all MDS products. [. . . ] Use the S/PDIF jack to connect the Digital 8·Bus to any number of stereo digital recorders, CD burners, or PCI sound cards. Word Clock (BNC connector) Used to sync the sampling clocks of all Mackie's digital products. This connector must be used to synchronize (or align) the sampling clocks of multiple digital devices, which allows digital audio data to pass from one device to another. All of our digital recorders and consoles can act as a master clock source, or as a slave to a common word clock source. SMPTE (1/4¨ TRS) Standing for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), this is used to either send out or receive longitudinal time code (LTC) as a positional reference of your playback. [. . . ]