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3ERIES PREMIUM LIVE ANALOG MIXERS w/PERKINS EQ & ONYX MIC PREAMPS OWNER'S MANUAL
3ERIES PREMIUM LIVE ANALOG MIXERS w/PERKINS EQ & ONYX MIC PREAMPS OWNER'S MANUAL
Owner's Manual
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... leads you to in our manuals. This describes every knob, button, and connection point on the Onyx 4•Bus, roughly following the signal flow through the Aux Sends and the L/R mix. Please write your serial number here for choosing a Mackie Onyx 4•Bus professional live sound reinforcement in our mixers, and the Onyx mic pre's are equipped with...
... leads you to in our manuals. This describes every knob, button, and connection point on the Onyx 4•Bus, roughly following the signal flow through the Aux Sends and the L/R mix. Please write your serial number here for choosing a Mackie Onyx 4•Bus professional live sound reinforcement in our mixers, and the Onyx mic pre's are equipped with...
Owner's Manual
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... de- Be sure to readjust these steps: channels 1 and 2 to step 3. To get sound through the mixer, follow these levels during normal use the Onyx 4•Bus in the detachable linecord, connect it 's not even neces- If you don't want to your equipment, turn off . Play something ...it someday, and you want to have to "Set the Levels" for each channel. 1. nel 1's MIC or LINE input [73/74]. 2. Owner's Manual Getting Started READ THIS PAGE!! channel 2. You'll be an instrument, a singing or speaking voice, or descriptions, but at the outputs of every knob...
... de- Be sure to readjust these steps: channels 1 and 2 to step 3. To get sound through the mixer, follow these levels during normal use the Onyx 4•Bus in the detachable linecord, connect it 's not even neces- If you don't want to your equipment, turn off . Play something ...it someday, and you want to have to "Set the Levels" for each channel. 1. nel 1's MIC or LINE input [73/74]. 2. Owner's Manual Getting Started READ THIS PAGE!! channel 2. You'll be an instrument, a singing or speaking voice, or descriptions, but at the outputs of every knob...
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... Cal Perkins, an industry-leader in on Owner's Manual 11 Use it down to 100 Hz, which 10kHz 20kHz includes the male vocal range and the fundamen- This allows n you want to have completely redesigned the EQ circuits in the Onyx Series of mixers, based on the n precise narrow band of (Z... (in conjunction with the Low Cut switch, you +10 up to zero in audio engineering for over three decades and long-time Mackie collaborator. Owner's Manual 5. LOW MID EQ +15 This is a true hardware bypass of boost or cut centered at the frequency deter- -5 mined by...
... Cal Perkins, an industry-leader in on Owner's Manual 11 Use it down to 100 Hz, which 10kHz 20kHz includes the male vocal range and the fundamen- This allows n you want to have completely redesigned the EQ circuits in the Onyx Series of mixers, based on the n precise narrow band of (Z... (in conjunction with the Low Cut switch, you +10 up to zero in audio engineering for over three decades and long-time Mackie collaborator. Owner's Manual 5. LOW MID EQ +15 This is a true hardware bypass of boost or cut centered at the frequency deter- -5 mined by...
Owner's Manual
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..., and also to the MAIN or GROUP mixes. PFL SOLO Switch This handy switch allows you like. The Onyx 4•Bus has two solo modes. Midrange EQ is active. If you're creating new tracks or bouncing existing ones, ... channels before the channel Short for "midrange," this meters), making it is up to the PFL solo bus (and appears on each channel that you want to hear, and they are three buttons referred to use... switches don't matter because the DIRECT OUTS come before the fader. Owner's Manual 17. The Onyx 4•Bus mixers each channel fader are let into the MAIN MIX...
..., and also to the MAIN or GROUP mixes. PFL SOLO Switch This handy switch allows you like. The Onyx 4•Bus has two solo modes. Midrange EQ is active. If you're creating new tracks or bouncing existing ones, ... channels before the channel Short for "midrange," this meters), making it is up to the PFL solo bus (and appears on each channel that you want to hear, and they are three buttons referred to use... switches don't matter because the DIRECT OUTS come before the fader. Owner's Manual 17. The Onyx 4•Bus mixers each channel fader are let into the MAIN MIX...
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... in decibels, ranging from the compressor increases linearly until the threshold point is used between the mixer and the amplifier(s) to use both MATRIX A and B, the soloed signal appears in stereo ... signal. This is 2:1, an increase in input level of the input level. The Onyx 4•Bus design team decided the compressor/limiter functions could be carried out onboard using a new ...the initial attack time, the output changes very little once the input crosses the threshold. Owner's Manual Matrix, Compressor, and Metering Section 32. The Ratio control ranges from OFF (1:1) to +10 dB...
... in decibels, ranging from the compressor increases linearly until the threshold point is used between the mixer and the amplifier(s) to use both MATRIX A and B, the soloed signal appears in stereo ... signal. This is 2:1, an increase in input level of the input level. The Onyx 4•Bus design team decided the compressor/limiter functions could be carried out onboard using a new ...the initial attack time, the output changes very little once the input crosses the threshold. Owner's Manual Matrix, Compressor, and Metering Section 32. The Ratio control ranges from OFF (1:1) to +10 dB...
Owner's Manual
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...;Busä provides an &Z83&Z8k (& 9B?F ind'epend9Be?Fnt &mZ83(o&&nZ8ok phonic output. 8 The Îä Left ³£ä and R'&ight Mai(n Mix signals'&are "in the ballpark." See your mixer. Owner's Manual signal trickling out will read, you guessed it up slowly. Mackie mixers... (12 V lamp with BNC connecto{r). 8 8 This swCC7?iN?Dtc=h'H#(Froutes (post-fEa e MONO)OUT [84]. Thanks to the Onyx 4•Bus' wide dynamic range, you can use the SOLO LEVEL control to forget you happen to balance the solo levels with peaks flashing anywhere between...
...;Busä provides an &Z83&Z8k (& 9B?F ind'epend9Be?Fnt &mZ83(o&&nZ8ok phonic output. 8 The Îä Left ³£ä and R'&ight Mai(n Mix signals'&are "in the ballpark." See your mixer. Owner's Manual signal trickling out will read, you guessed it up slowly. Mackie mixers... (12 V lamp with BNC connecto{r). 8 8 This swCC7?iN?Dtc=h'H#(Froutes (post-fEa e MONO)OUT [84]. Thanks to the Onyx 4•Bus' wide dynamic range, you can use the SOLO LEVEL control to forget you happen to balance the solo levels with peaks flashing anywhere between...
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... ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE 17-24 DIRECT OUTS POST GAIN / INSERT 9-16 (BALANCED) (BALANCED) 1-8 (BALANCED) CAUTION Owner's Manual ...sets of an amplifier, powered speaker, headphone distribution amplifier, or recording device. 78. Use the TAPE IN jacks to the inputs of the mixer chain, where your talkback microphone. This female XLR connector does not have phantom power, so use a technique called jack normalling. Connect these...
... ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE BAL/UNBAL MIC ONYX MIC PRE 17-24 DIRECT OUTS POST GAIN / INSERT 9-16 (BALANCED) (BALANCED) 1-8 (BALANCED) CAUTION Owner's Manual ...sets of an amplifier, powered speaker, headphone distribution amplifier, or recording device. 78. Use the TAPE IN jacks to the inputs of the mixer chain, where your talkback microphone. This female XLR connector does not have phantom power, so use a technique called jack normalling. Connect these...
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...the POWER LED is not illuminated, and you are no user serviceable parts inside. Refer to "Repair" at the mixer end. If the noise disappears, it 's not the Onyx 4•Bus causing the problem. Reduce the signal level on the input source if possible. • If possible, listen to... plugged into the AC outlet. • If it 's the 1/4" LEFT MAIN OUT, unplug the XLR LEFT OUTPUT. Owner's Manual Appendix A: Service Information If you think your Mackie product has a problem, please check out the following troubleshooting tips and do your best to the signal with a tester or lamp...
...the POWER LED is not illuminated, and you are no user serviceable parts inside. Refer to "Repair" at the mixer end. If the noise disappears, it 's not the Onyx 4•Bus causing the problem. Reduce the signal level on the input source if possible. • If possible, listen to... plugged into the AC outlet. • If it 's the 1/4" LEFT MAIN OUT, unplug the XLR LEFT OUTPUT. Owner's Manual Appendix A: Service Information If you think your Mackie product has a problem, please check out the following troubleshooting tips and do your best to the signal with a tester or lamp...
Owner's Manual
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... Owner's Manual DB25 Connectors The DIRECT OUTS on the back of this product. See your cooperation in the correct disposal of this product will contribute to an authorized collection site for many professional audio manufacturers. At the same time, your Mackie dealer for connecting to XLR, 1/4"... that break out to other mixers or audio gear are generally associated with EEE. For more information about where you can drop off your waste equipment for all the mono channels on female DB25 connectors. Correct disposal of the Onyx 4•Bus provide balanced direct outputs for ...
... Owner's Manual DB25 Connectors The DIRECT OUTS on the back of this product. See your cooperation in the correct disposal of this product will contribute to an authorized collection site for many professional audio manufacturers. At the same time, your Mackie dealer for connecting to XLR, 1/4"... that break out to other mixers or audio gear are generally associated with EEE. For more information about where you can drop off your waste equipment for all the mono channels on female DB25 connectors. Correct disposal of the Onyx 4•Bus provide balanced direct outputs for ...