User manual FOCUSRITE RED1

[. . . ] A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other. A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong is provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet. 10. [. . . ] Note that when pressing on the solo button on an output channel, that channel (i. e. the whole mix) is soloed and routed to Monitor outputs 1 and 2. You can name the current mix by typing the desired name in the text field below the output channel. You will see the name appear in the mix tab. For example, Mix 1 can be renamed "Monitor Mix", and Mix 5 named "Headphone 1 Mix". To copy an existing mix to another mix, simply click on "Copy Mix To. . . " and select the mix to which you would like to copy. Note that you can only copy a stereo mix to another stereo mix, and a mono mix to another mono mix. Therefore you must make sure that you have correctly set up the output channels to either stereo or mono before copying the mix. Click on "Sel. . . " to view a drop down menu of the available output destinations for the selected mix (see the drop down menu in the screenshot on the left side of this page). Select an output in this menu in order to choose the output destination for the selected mix. 16 Input FX Section The Saffire PRO 24 DSP can apply digital signal processing to both analogue inputs 1 and 2. The DSP consists of a Compressor and EQ effect for each channel. Compressor The Focusrite Compressor is modelled on the legendary Focusrite hardware devices, with individually tuned optos to help create the sound of vintage 1960s compression. The shelving mode doesn't require a Q control because the slope is fixed. The controls are: EQ ACTIVE Button - Click to turn the EQ on or off. FREQUENCY Knobs ­ Set the frequency that the band affects, e. g. the centre frequency in bell mode, the cut-off frequency in high-pass /low-pass mode or the start of the shelf in shelving mode. GAIN Knobs ­ Increase or decrease the level of the corresponding band of EQ. The band will have no effect with the knob in a central position. Rotate clockwise to increase and anticlockwise to decrease the level by up to 18dB. Q Knobs ­ Set the level of resonance of the band, making the band have a more pronounced effect. Increasing Q decreases the bandwidth so that the bell acts on less of the frequency range. SHELVING/HIGH-PASS or LOW-PASS Switch ­ Selects a low-shelf (upper) or high-pass (lower) for band 1, and a highshelf (upper) or low-pass (lower) for band 4. OUTPUT Knob ­ Increases or decreases the level of the signal at the EQ output. No gain modification occurs with the knob in a central position. Rotate clockwise to increase and anticlockwise to decrease the level by up to 36dB. Additional Controls FX Chain Order Button - Click to change the order in which Compressor and EQ are chained. If the Compressor is positioned above the EQ, the signal is compressed before EQ. With EQ positioned above the Compressor, EQ is applied before compression. FX Mono / Stereo Button - Click to switch between 2 channel Mono and 2 channel Stereo operation. [. . . ] It can either be an ADAT stream or an S/PDIF stream. (Useful for those who have S/PDIF equipment that only has an optical connector. ) S/PDIF AC3 Allows the user to stream AC3 directly via the S/PDIF outputs. from a DVD player, that will be sent via S/PDIF cable (RCA or Optical) to your 5. 1 decoder. ) Firewire Driver Latency The Saffire PRO 24 DSPs latency performance will be dictated by the Core Audio buffer size specified in your DAW (Mac, ) or as set in the ASIO buffer size (Windows. ) The Firewire Driver Latency affects the performance of the Core Audio or ASIO buffer settings. If you are experiencing clicks and pops or audio dropouts, this may be due to certain hardware in your computer that is affecting the performance of audio devices connected via FireWire. Rather than removing and replacing hardware (e. g. [. . . ]