User manual AVIOM A-16

[. . . ] A-16 Personal Monitor Mixing System User Guide Information in this document is subject to change. 1. 03 Part Number 9301 1001 0001 Aviom, Inc. 1157 Phoenixville Pike Suite 201 West Chester, PA 19380 USA 610-738-9005 610-738-9950 (fax) www. aviom. com READ THIS FIRST Important Safety Instructions 1. Keep these instructions Heed all warnings. [. . . ] Consult your mixer's documentation to learn more. With a channel assigned to a bus output, you can then control the level of the bus independent of the other levels on the mixer. In fact, if you assign multiple channels to a bus output, this acts as a sub-mixer, combining the audio from all assigned channels into one signal. The individual channel level fader is used to set the relative balance of all channels assigned to the bus. As an example, you could assign all the channels of the main mixer devoted to drums to a bus. As mentioned previously, the relative mix of all the components of the drum sound would remain the same; the levels are based on the individual channel's level settings. By sending all the drum channels to a bus, the entire drum kit sound can be raised or lowered in volume from a single fader. (By using two bus outputs a stereo drum sub-mix with panning can be created. More on this below. ) The same theory extends to the operation of the A-16. If you send the sub-mixed drum sound in the example above from a console bus output to the A-16T Transmitter, then each Personal Mixer in the system has a single channel devoted to the drums. Each performer can control the amount of drums in his/her mix with a single knob. He/she cannot, however, change the relative balance of the drums that make up this mix (more snare, less cymbals, etc. ). This change would need to be made at the main mixer, and would affect the balance in all connected A-16 Mixers. 31 Aviom A-16 Personal Monitor Mixing System You can extend this idea further to create a stereo drum mix. This requires that the drums be assigned to two bus outputs, usually consecutive numbers such as 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc. The pan (or left/right balance) from the drum kit is then set by using the mixer's Pan knobs. To get the floor tom into only the right speaker, for example, its pan knob should be turned to the fully clockwise position. The bus output idea can be combined with direct outputs as needed. This could be useful if you wanted to have individual control over the band's instruments, but also be able to turn up or down all background vocals from four singers from a single knob. Aux Sends (Effects Sends) An Auxiliary Send (or Aux Send for short) is typically used on a live or recording console to send the sound from a channel into an effect device such as a reverb. Using a dedicated set of knobs found in each channel strip, each channel can have a different amount of the effect applied as needed. An Aux Send does not have to be used exclusively with effects, though. You can think of an Aux Send as another mini mixer; it functions in a similar manner to a bus output. It is used to pass the audio signals from the console to another destination. [. . . ] If you have two Personal Mixers connected together, the second Personal Mixer's A-Net LED will light because the first Personal Mixer is correctly connected to it. Check that each device in the chain has a Category 5 cable plugged into it. · Check that the A-Net cables are connected in the correct order. The Cat 5 49 Aviom A-16 Personal Monitor Mixing System cable connected to the first Personal Mixer should be connected to the ANet In jack. [. . . ]