Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 2
...it means that provide additional capabilities to a minimum. aux return A mixer input (sometimes a pair of inputs) with limited control capabilities, intended for Sound Engineers by Glen Ballou, Mackie Mixer Book by Rudy Trubitt, Pro Audio Reference by Dennis Bohn, and Sound Reinforcement Handbook by the ...foam. In describing the high-density foam used in the mixer. 2 We recommend the following titles: The Audio ...
...it means that provide additional capabilities to a minimum. aux return A mixer input (sometimes a pair of inputs) with limited control capabilities, intended for Sound Engineers by Glen Ballou, Mackie Mixer Book by Rudy Trubitt, Pro Audio Reference by Dennis Bohn, and Sound Reinforcement Handbook by the ...foam. In describing the high-density foam used in the mixer. 2 We recommend the following titles: The Audio ...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 3
...in Hertz or in an audio circuit: an input channel, an output channel, a recording channel, the left channel and so on the front panel of a mixer; A special case of a balanced output carries the signal on only one or a zero. In sound work , a Cannon connector is taken to the ...a number of neighborhoods to a mixing amplifier, just like a city bus carries people from the circuit ground by exactly the same impedance. In mixer design, a bus usually carries signals from a number of inputs to their jobs. bit The smallest component of a digital word, represented by connecting the ...
...in Hertz or in an audio circuit: an input channel, an output channel, a recording channel, the left channel and so on the front panel of a mixer; A special case of a balanced output carries the signal on only one or a zero. In sound work , a Cannon connector is taken to the ...a number of neighborhoods to a mixing amplifier, just like a city bus carries people from the circuit ground by exactly the same impedance. In mixer design, a bus usually carries signals from a number of inputs to their jobs. bit The smallest component of a digital word, represented by connecting the ...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 4
...known as a capacitor. clipping A form of severe audio distortion that might otherwise overload your system or cause distortion. Seen on a Mackie mixer, and often the terms are converted to run internal amplifiers and maintain an electrical charge on the capacitor. cueing In broadcast,... audio, condenser often refers to a type of the peak value to the RMS value. condenser Another term for a sound mixer, usually a large desk-like mixer. crest factor The ratio of microphone that transforms incoming digital signals into analog form. Digital-to control the cone's movement. ...
...known as a capacitor. clipping A form of severe audio distortion that might otherwise overload your system or cause distortion. Seen on a Mackie mixer, and often the terms are converted to run internal amplifiers and maintain an electrical charge on the capacitor. cueing In broadcast,... audio, condenser often refers to a type of the peak value to the RMS value. condenser Another term for a sound mixer, usually a large desk-like mixer. crest factor The ratio of microphone that transforms incoming digital signals into analog form. Digital-to control the cone's movement. ...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 5
... period of the terms in decibels referenced to 1 VRMS across 600 ohms equals 1 mw). In a circuit with personal computers using a logarithmic scale. Most knobs on Mackie mixers are mixed back with the original sound, a great number of audio effects can refer to one of time. dBV diffraction The bending of audio signal...
... period of the terms in decibels referenced to 1 VRMS across 600 ohms equals 1 mw). In a circuit with personal computers using a logarithmic scale. Most knobs on Mackie mixers are mixed back with the original sound, a great number of audio effects can refer to one of time. dBV diffraction The bending of audio signal...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 6
... that only affects the overall amplitude level of the signal (sometimes as a function of its analog counterpart. Dry is returned to the mix through additional mixer inputs. E echo The reflection of sound from a surface such as a reverb or delay unit, or it can handle. The added echo is not...
... that only affects the overall amplitude level of the signal (sometimes as a function of its analog counterpart. Dry is returned to the mix through additional mixer inputs. E echo The reflection of sound from a surface such as a reverb or delay unit, or it can handle. The added echo is not...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 7
.... In audio systems, this noise can be from a ground loop or from the level controls, EQs are probably the second most powerful controls on any mixer (no EQ) is the grade of the hill on a particular input or subgroup, or it ? 7 Bass and treble controls on the reel flange. a peak...
.... In audio systems, this noise can be from a ground loop or from the level controls, EQs are probably the second most powerful controls on any mixer (no EQ) is the grade of the hill on a particular input or subgroup, or it ? 7 Bass and treble controls on the reel flange. a peak...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 9
... equipment. headroom The difference between nominal operating level and peak clipping in modular fashion, one channel per second. Plenty of us. Mackie input and output impedances are set to both ears at the same time and at the same volume, is usually pronounced "kay"(... they want to 1 cycle per module. See channel strip. Verb - Hertz The unit of direction. It's usually a TRS jack with the signal. In Mackie mixers, the insert jacks are connected together, as if it appears to the systems (and even persons) responsible for Hertz. I H Haas precedence effect A psychoacoustic...
... equipment. headroom The difference between nominal operating level and peak clipping in modular fashion, one channel per second. Plenty of us. Mackie input and output impedances are set to both ears at the same time and at the same volume, is usually pronounced "kay"(... they want to 1 cycle per module. See channel strip. Verb - Hertz The unit of direction. It's usually a TRS jack with the signal. In Mackie mixers, the insert jacks are connected together, as if it appears to the systems (and even persons) responsible for Hertz. I H Haas precedence effect A psychoacoustic...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 10
...preamp gain correctly with the trim control is to bring the very low microphone level signal up to +30 dBu). mains Short for your leg. A mixer mic amp See mic preamp. With a very quiet source (a pin dropping?) the signal can be slide faders or rotary controls. A "hot" ...mic output level isn't necessarily a measure of a signal from the area of a mic preamp built into a mixer, the mixer's internal operating level (approximately 0 dBu). MIDI is a sharp bend in a curve (an EQ frequency response or compressor gain curve) not unlike the sharp ...
...preamp gain correctly with the trim control is to bring the very low microphone level signal up to +30 dBu). mains Short for your leg. A mixer mic amp See mic preamp. With a very quiet source (a pin dropping?) the signal can be slide faders or rotary controls. A "hot" ...mic output level isn't necessarily a measure of a signal from the area of a mic preamp built into a mixer, the mixer's internal operating level (approximately 0 dBu). MIDI is a sharp bend in a curve (an EQ frequency response or compressor gain curve) not unlike the sharp ...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 11
...the performers to hear themselves. Inserting a plug breaks this connection, allowing the signal path to be white noise or pink noise or brown noise; mixer An electronic device used to combine various audio signals into every input in the board?" "Why did you mult the flanger into a ...clock radios are often called foldback speakers. or it must be crosstalk or digital hash or your mother-in the analog signal. In a well designed mixer, the noise floor will be your neighbor's stereo; Most people hear television audio in normal operation, there is at 44.1 kHz, the...
...the performers to hear themselves. Inserting a plug breaks this connection, allowing the signal path to be white noise or pink noise or brown noise; mixer An electronic device used to combine various audio signals into every input in the board?" "Why did you mult the flanger into a ...clock radios are often called foldback speakers. or it must be crosstalk or digital hash or your mother-in the analog signal. In a well designed mixer, the noise floor will be your neighbor's stereo; Most people hear television audio in normal operation, there is at 44.1 kHz, the...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 12
... by strapping the positivie output terminals together, thereby providing twice the current of phase is out of phase. 180 degrees out of an individual output. Mackie mixers use +48 VDC phantom power. P PA Acronym for a continuous waveform, means that routes a single input to position (or even dynamically move) a monaural sound source in...
... by strapping the positivie output terminals together, thereby providing twice the current of phase is out of phase. 180 degrees out of an individual output. Mackie mixers use +48 VDC phantom power. P PA Acronym for a continuous waveform, means that routes a single input to position (or even dynamically move) a monaural sound source in...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 13
.... The effect is done by the difference between the fundamental and overtone components of the associated channel fader. A post-fader output from a mixer channel usually is small, typically three inches or less. In audio, any rotary or slide control. tude but not always) used for effects... frequency. An EQ with a delayed (1 to -mic distance is also post-EQ. Sends connected this effect even more than singing in your mixer's block diagram. phone jack Ever see those old telephone switchboards with musical instruments and audio equipment. pre-fader A term used to the phone jack...
.... The effect is done by the difference between the fundamental and overtone components of the associated channel fader. A post-fader output from a mixer channel usually is small, typically three inches or less. In audio, any rotary or slide control. tude but not always) used for effects... frequency. An EQ with a delayed (1 to -mic distance is also post-EQ. Sends connected this effect even more than singing in your mixer's block diagram. phone jack Ever see those old telephone switchboards with musical instruments and audio equipment. pre-fader A term used to the phone jack...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 14
...and reduces distortion in early project-studio multitrack recorders, which decreases in a large tiled room immediately after the source of sound is a mixer line input dedicated to the task of many effects units, or you popular with dogs and unpopular with very little reverberation are 7.5 kHz... will have to put a couple on the front panel of returning processed or added sound from and written to the blend through additional mixer inputs. regeneration can route the delay return back into itself to stair steps). Depending on life. reverberation, reverb The sound remaining in ...
...and reduces distortion in early project-studio multitrack recorders, which decreases in a large tiled room immediately after the source of sound is a mixer line input dedicated to the task of many effects units, or you popular with dogs and unpopular with very little reverberation are 7.5 kHz... will have to put a couple on the front panel of returning processed or added sound from and written to the blend through additional mixer inputs. regeneration can route the delay return back into itself to stair steps). Depending on life. reverberation, reverb The sound remaining in ...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 15
.... Most AC voltmeters are often sampled at higher sample rates, such as 96 kHz or even 192 kHz (that's 192,000 samples per second!). Mackie mixers call it would look like a shelf than a hiking boot. If you were to -digital conversion process. solo Italian for compact discs is usually... A term used for root mean square, a conventional way to describe the output of a secondary mix of audibility. Or more like a shelf. In audio mixers, a solo circuit allows the engineer to listen to describe the shape of wires and cables in dB below a given output level. RMS An acronym for...
.... Most AC voltmeters are often sampled at higher sample rates, such as 96 kHz or even 192 kHz (that's 192,000 samples per second!). Mackie mixers call it would look like a shelf than a hiking boot. If you were to -digital conversion process. solo Italian for compact discs is usually... A term used for root mean square, a conventional way to describe the output of a secondary mix of audibility. Or more like a shelf. In audio mixers, a solo circuit allows the engineer to listen to describe the shape of wires and cables in dB below a given output level. RMS An acronym for...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 16
...term "SR" is to "PA" (Public Address) as a radian is an angular unit of measure in popular music, so that channel of the mixer. steradians Just as the term "environmental cleanup technologist" is also at ground poten- 16 symmetrically balanced See balanced. It is taken to the process (...the identical impedance to "sweep" or continuously vary the frequency of one leg is to set the trim control correctly; The trim control allows the mixer to very loud sound levels. TRS Acronym for Tip-Ring-Sleeve, the three parts of a continuous, spacious sound field that means solid...
...term "SR" is to "PA" (Public Address) as a radian is an angular unit of measure in popular music, so that channel of the mixer. steradians Just as the term "environmental cleanup technologist" is also at ground poten- 16 symmetrically balanced See balanced. It is taken to the process (...the identical impedance to "sweep" or continuously vary the frequency of one leg is to set the trim control correctly; The trim control allows the mixer to very loud sound levels. TRS Acronym for Tip-Ring-Sleeve, the three parts of a continuous, spacious sound field that means solid...
Owner's Manual Glossary
Page 17
... will leave a unity gain circuit at the same level at unity gain. Mackie mixers are so minuscule. VLZ is located less than just plain "Z" to the low noise, high headroom mic preamp circuit employed on Mackie mixing boards are optimized for best headroom and noise figures with all variable... to noise pickup. zymurgy The science of brewing, an important part of the most important reasons why inherent noise levels on many Mackie mixers. tial. Unbalanced audio circuitry is less expensive to build, but no amplification, but under certain circumstances is achieved by ...
... will leave a unity gain circuit at the same level at unity gain. Mackie mixers are so minuscule. VLZ is located less than just plain "Z" to the low noise, high headroom mic preamp circuit employed on Mackie mixing boards are optimized for best headroom and noise figures with all variable... to noise pickup. zymurgy The science of brewing, an important part of the most important reasons why inherent noise levels on many Mackie mixers. tial. Unbalanced audio circuitry is less expensive to build, but no amplification, but under certain circumstances is achieved by ...
Hook-Up Guide
Page 2
... their spirits alive.) Call Mackie Tech Support toll-free (in hooking up big daddy Macs. And don't forget to one 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...
... their spirits alive.) Call Mackie Tech Support toll-free (in hooking up big daddy Macs. And don't forget to one 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...
Hook-Up Guide
Page 3
... (B). Insert Points TS Plug (mono) Attention ! SET IT UP, AND GO! TRS Plug (stereo) Standard stereo/balanced phone plug used for most Mackie mixers. The dotted line represents the two signals travelling alongside one end is actually wired to the TIP of one of the... "click." Insert all the way in the circuit (thereby allowing the channel signal to separate mono Tip-Sleeve plugs. A VISUAL GUIDE COMMON PRO AUDIO PLUGS AND CONNECTORS KNOW YOUR PLUGS TS Plug (mono) Balanced XLR Standard mono/unbalanced phone plug used with signal interruption to first "click."
... (B). Insert Points TS Plug (mono) Attention ! SET IT UP, AND GO! TRS Plug (stereo) Standard stereo/balanced phone plug used for most Mackie mixers. The dotted line represents the two signals travelling alongside one end is actually wired to the TIP of one of the... "click." Insert all the way in the circuit (thereby allowing the channel signal to separate mono Tip-Sleeve plugs. A VISUAL GUIDE COMMON PRO AUDIO PLUGS AND CONNECTORS KNOW YOUR PLUGS TS Plug (mono) Balanced XLR Standard mono/unbalanced phone plug used with signal interruption to first "click."
Spec Sheet
Page 1
... tape levels, and more. Mute/Alt 3-4 effectively creates a second stereo bus. It also has a level control for selecting any compact mixer design. Introduction Mackie's 1402-VLZ PRO combines the compact size of the 1202-VLZ PRO with mic/line level switch plus 1/4" Main L/R outputs 60dB Gain on Channels 1-6 Global Aux 1 Pre/Post-Fader switch Level Setting LED...
... tape levels, and more. Mute/Alt 3-4 effectively creates a second stereo bus. It also has a level control for selecting any compact mixer design. Introduction Mackie's 1402-VLZ PRO combines the compact size of the 1202-VLZ PRO with mic/line level switch plus 1/4" Main L/R outputs 60dB Gain on Channels 1-6 Global Aux 1 Pre/Post-Fader switch Level Setting LED...
Spec Sheet
Page 5
...connectors, accepting nominal levels from -10dBV to +4dBu via the Aux Return 2 level control; In addition to the controls listed in section 2 (MIXER INPUTS), each channel shall include 2 rotary Aux Send controls, providing up to 15dB gain; 3 rotary equalization (EQ) controls: ±15dB @ .... The source signals for the meters shall be delivered to provide 30dB attenuation (XLR outputs only; -26dBu nominal level); GENERAL CONFIGURATION. The mixer shall accommodate 6 microphone signals, mono channels 1-6; 14 line signals, mono channels 1-6 and stereo channels 7-14; 2 stereo pairs of Aux ...
...connectors, accepting nominal levels from -10dBV to +4dBu via the Aux Return 2 level control; In addition to the controls listed in section 2 (MIXER INPUTS), each channel shall include 2 rotary Aux Send controls, providing up to 15dB gain; 3 rotary equalization (EQ) controls: ±15dB @ .... The source signals for the meters shall be delivered to provide 30dB attenuation (XLR outputs only; -26dBu nominal level); GENERAL CONFIGURATION. The mixer shall accommodate 6 microphone signals, mono channels 1-6; 14 line signals, mono channels 1-6 and stereo channels 7-14; 2 stereo pairs of Aux ...
Spec Sheet
Page 6
... send, maximum gain, 1kHz, better than 10 kΩ; The meters shall be flush with the rack rail. 8. The mixer shall be a Mackie 1402-VLZ PRO. SPECIFICATIONS. In addition to specifications already cited, the mixer shall meet or exceed the following specifications: Frequency response: microphone input to 60kHz, +0dB/-1dB; Channel Gain...
... send, maximum gain, 1kHz, better than 10 kΩ; The meters shall be flush with the rack rail. 8. The mixer shall be a Mackie 1402-VLZ PRO. SPECIFICATIONS. In addition to specifications already cited, the mixer shall meet or exceed the following specifications: Frequency response: microphone input to 60kHz, +0dB/-1dB; Channel Gain...