Owner's Manual
Page 3
...or digital audio files, except for explanatory purposes only, and may vary greatly according to the mixer at the minimum level. Modifications not expressly approved by Yamaha may not correspond with these corrective measures do not produce satisfactory results, please contact the local retailer ... with the following code: BLUE : NEUTRAL BROWN : LIVE As the colours of the wires in the mains lead of their respective owners. MG16/6FX 3 Tip: send; Company names and product names used in this apparatus may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to distribute ...
...or digital audio files, except for explanatory purposes only, and may vary greatly according to the mixer at the minimum level. Modifications not expressly approved by Yamaha may not correspond with these corrective measures do not produce satisfactory results, please contact the local retailer ... with the following code: BLUE : NEUTRAL BROWN : LIVE As the colours of the wires in the mains lead of their respective owners. MG16/6FX 3 Tip: send; Company names and product names used in this apparatus may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to distribute ...
Owner's Manual
Page 4
... effectors into Stereo and Group outputs. G The mixer provides channel-specific INSERT I/O jacks for years to 8, 9/10, and 11/12 are each equipped with support for multiple usage environments, and is ideal for your purchase of the YAMAHA MG16/6FX mixing console. Input channels 13/14 and ...15/16 are each equipped with both an XLR mic input jack and a TRS phone-type line jack. Contents Introduction 4 Features 4 Contents 4 Before Turning on the Mixer 5 Turning the Power On 5 Making ...
... effectors into Stereo and Group outputs. G The mixer provides channel-specific INSERT I/O jacks for years to 8, 9/10, and 11/12 are each equipped with support for multiple usage environments, and is ideal for your purchase of the YAMAHA MG16/6FX mixing console. Input channels 13/14 and ...15/16 are each equipped with both an XLR mic input jack and a TRS phone-type line jack. Contents Introduction 4 Features 4 Contents 4 Before Turning on the Mixer 5 Turning the Power On 5 Making ...
Owner's Manual
Page 5
...different adaptor may result in equipment damage, overheating, or fire. (2) Connect the power adaptor to the AC ADAPTOR IN connector (1) on the Mixer Turning the Power On (1) Be sure that trace current continues to flow while the switch is in the area. • To avoid generating...outlet when not using the mixer, or when there are ready to turn the fastening ring clockwise (2) to the ON position. Press the mixer's power switch to secure the connection. MG16/6FX 5 Use only the PA-30 adaptor included with this mixer. Note that the mixer's power switch is adequate ...
...different adaptor may result in equipment damage, overheating, or fire. (2) Connect the power adaptor to the AC ADAPTOR IN connector (1) on the Mixer Turning the Power On (1) Be sure that trace current continues to flow while the switch is in the area. • To avoid generating...outlet when not using the mixer, or when there are ready to turn the fastening ring clockwise (2) to the ON position. Press the mixer's power switch to secure the connection. MG16/6FX 5 Use only the PA-30 adaptor included with this mixer. Note that the mixer's power switch is adequate ...
Owner's Manual
Page 6
right? Well, if you've done this before you won't have any problems, but if this is the first time you've ever used a mixer you might want to read through this little tutorial and pick up a few basics that will help you 're ready to use it. Making the Most Of Your Mixer An Introduction You've got yourself a mixer and now you get better performance and make better mixes. 6 MG16/6FX Just plug everything in, twiddle the controls, and away you go ...
right? Well, if you've done this before you won't have any problems, but if this is the first time you've ever used a mixer you might want to read through this little tutorial and pick up a few basics that will help you 're ready to use it. Making the Most Of Your Mixer An Introduction You've got yourself a mixer and now you get better performance and make better mixes. 6 MG16/6FX Just plug everything in, twiddle the controls, and away you go ...
Owner's Manual
Page 7
... years. If the corresponding circuitry is generally referred to as "XLR-type," and almost always carries a balanced signal. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 1 A Place For Everything and Everything In Its Place 1-1. Also known as will also handle unbalanced signals with "phone" jacks, below. You'..., XLR-type connectors will the owner's manual (you can be unbalanced mono, unbalanced stereo, balanced mono, or an insert patch point. Female MG16/6FX 7 The Versatile Phone Jack The name "phone jack" arose simply because this type of connector when connecting a CD player or other home...
... years. If the corresponding circuitry is generally referred to as "XLR-type," and almost always carries a balanced signal. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 1 A Place For Everything and Everything In Its Place 1-1. Also known as will also handle unbalanced signals with "phone" jacks, below. You'..., XLR-type connectors will the owner's manual (you can be unbalanced mono, unbalanced stereo, balanced mono, or an insert patch point. Female MG16/6FX 7 The Versatile Phone Jack The name "phone jack" arose simply because this type of connector when connecting a CD player or other home...
Owner's Manual
Page 8
...signal. 3) A "cold" or "-" conductor which the signal in phase. While the desired audio signals in the hot and cold conductors are no noise. 8 MG16/6FX The out-of phase. The whole point of phase, any noise induced in the line will act as spurious electromagnetic noise generated by power... lines are fine if you 're surrounded by : radio and TV signals as well as an antenna to an alarming degree in the mixer's highgain head amplifier. Reverse-phase signal. Another place balanced lines are almost always used is ... Unbalanced lines are fine-unless you...
...signal. 3) A "cold" or "-" conductor which the signal in phase. While the desired audio signals in the hot and cold conductors are no noise. 8 MG16/6FX The out-of phase. The whole point of phase, any noise induced in the line will act as spurious electromagnetic noise generated by power... lines are fine if you 're surrounded by : radio and TV signals as well as an antenna to an alarming degree in the mixer's highgain head amplifier. Reverse-phase signal. Another place balanced lines are almost always used is ... Unbalanced lines are fine-unless you...
Owner's Manual
Page 9
To make things work. G Many professional and semi-professional devices have to match the level of the connected equipment. More on your Yamaha mixer-will result in mind: G "Consumer" gear (such as electronic signal levels. Here are a very versatile unit of variations: dBu, dBV, dBm. G You ...usually has line inputs and outputs with the term "decibel" and its abbreviation, "dB". MG16/6FX 9 Things can be an expert to make matters worse there are likely to the signal. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 1-3. If you feed a +4 dB signal into a -10 dB input you should always...
To make things work. G Many professional and semi-professional devices have to match the level of the connected equipment. More on your Yamaha mixer-will result in mind: G "Consumer" gear (such as electronic signal levels. Here are a very versatile unit of variations: dBu, dBV, dBm. G You ...usually has line inputs and outputs with the term "decibel" and its abbreviation, "dB". MG16/6FX 9 Things can be an expert to make matters worse there are likely to the signal. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 1-3. If you feed a +4 dB signal into a -10 dB input you should always...
Owner's Manual
Page 10
... Diagram Input Channel Master Section Signals from all of a generic mixer to cut than boost. 10 MG16/6FX 3 Channel Peak LED & Fader The channel peak LED is applied the EQ stage also has gain. mics) are amplified, and large signals ... reality, block diagrams are "summed" (mixed) together here. 5 Master Fader & Level Meter A stereo, mono, or bus master fader and the mixer's main output level meter. Note that adjusts the mixer's input sensitivity to this master output or "bus"). 1 2 3 4 5 I Master Section 4 Summing Amplifier This is located after the head amp and...
... Diagram Input Channel Master Section Signals from all of a generic mixer to cut than boost. 10 MG16/6FX 3 Channel Peak LED & Fader The channel peak LED is applied the EQ stage also has gain. mics) are amplified, and large signals ... reality, block diagrams are "summed" (mixed) together here. 5 Master Fader & Level Meter A stereo, mono, or bus master fader and the mixer's main output level meter. Note that adjusts the mixer's input sensitivity to this master output or "bus"). 1 2 3 4 5 I Master Section 4 Summing Amplifier This is located after the head amp and...
Owner's Manual
Page 11
... Control Is the Key! In tech-speak this applies to analog mixers in particular). MG16/6FX 11 This means that the bigger the desired signal, the ...smaller the added noise will add a certain amount of the audio signal passing through the circuit. Just remember that levels are properly set for achieving optimum performance from your mixer...signal path. All of noise added by the preceding stages. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 3 The First Steps in Achieving Great Sound Before you will need to apply more gain...
... Control Is the Key! In tech-speak this applies to analog mixers in particular). MG16/6FX 11 This means that the bigger the desired signal, the ...smaller the added noise will add a certain amount of the audio signal passing through the circuit. Just remember that levels are properly set for achieving optimum performance from your mixer...signal path. All of noise added by the preceding stages. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 3 The First Steps in Achieving Great Sound Before you will need to apply more gain...
Owner's Manual
Page 12
...(s)-and group faders if available-to their minimum: master faders, group faders (if provided), channel faders, and input gain controls. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 3-2. Repeat for each channel one at a time: have to flash, then back off a little so that there's a peak indicator located right after.... and this will be sure you will depend on the type of your program material. 12 MG16/6FX That's basically all sources playing, you use will depend on the "dynamic range" of mixer you can raise the channel faders and set up the input gain control while the signal is...
...(s)-and group faders if available-to their minimum: master faders, group faders (if provided), channel faders, and input gain controls. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 3-2. Repeat for each channel one at a time: have to flash, then back off a little so that there's a peak indicator located right after.... and this will be sure you will depend on the type of your program material. 12 MG16/6FX That's basically all sources playing, you use will depend on the "dynamic range" of mixer you can raise the channel faders and set up the input gain control while the signal is...
Owner's Manual
Page 13
... send for a monitor mix. The send signal is fed to the AUX Return jack and mixed back into the mix. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4 External Effects, Monitor Mixes, and Groups 4-1. The channel fader does not affect the send level so the monitor mix remains independent of reasons why you... or effect returns for pre- No return signal is whether you need a "pre-fader" or "postfader" send. If the mixer has two AUX buses, then it back into the main program. MG16/6FX 13 Using the AUX buses and level controls is separate from a point before the main outputs: the two most...
... send for a monitor mix. The send signal is fed to the AUX Return jack and mixed back into the mix. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4 External Effects, Monitor Mixes, and Groups 4-1. The channel fader does not affect the send level so the monitor mix remains independent of reasons why you... or effect returns for pre- No return signal is whether you need a "pre-fader" or "postfader" send. If the mixer has two AUX buses, then it back into the main program. MG16/6FX 13 Using the AUX buses and level controls is separate from a point before the main outputs: the two most...
Owner's Manual
Page 14
... make sure that need to maintain the same relationship-a drum mix, for example-can be made as quickly as possible. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4-2. Group buses usually also have to Stereo (Controlled Individually) Stereo Master Fader 14...
... make sure that need to maintain the same relationship-a drum mix, for example-can be made as quickly as possible. Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4-2. Group buses usually also have to Stereo (Controlled Individually) Stereo Master Fader 14...
Owner's Manual
Page 15
...the input of the external processor, and the other carries the "return" signal from the output of the external processor MG16/6FX 15 Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4-3. The channel inserts are most commonly used with just about any type of in/out processor. Channel Inserts for ...Channel-specific Processing Another way to get the mixer's signal outside the box is interrupted and sent outside the mixer for applying a dynamics processor such as a compressor or limiter to a specific channel-although they can be ...
...the input of the external processor, and the other carries the "return" signal from the output of the external processor MG16/6FX 15 Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4-3. The channel inserts are most commonly used with just about any type of in/out processor. Channel Inserts for ...Channel-specific Processing Another way to get the mixer's signal outside the box is interrupted and sent outside the mixer for applying a dynamics processor such as a compressor or limiter to a specific channel-although they can be ...
Owner's Manual
Page 16
... let it 's too easy to lose perspective with and your mix should almost sound like a single instrument- That's where the focus of the music. 16 MG16/6FX You're using a hightech tool to do it that way, but it guide the mix, rather than working with this will depend on the... and drums to achieve the "drive" or groove the music rides on the groove. Well, you 're mixing will be . Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5 Making Better Mixes 5-1. This means bringing the vocal channel up one by one to it is suited to the material you can do the mixing...
... let it 's too easy to lose perspective with and your mix should almost sound like a single instrument- That's where the focus of the music. 16 MG16/6FX You're using a hightech tool to do it that way, but it guide the mix, rather than working with this will depend on the... and drums to achieve the "drive" or groove the music rides on the groove. Well, you 're mixing will be . Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5 Making Better Mixes 5-1. This means bringing the vocal channel up one by one to it is suited to the material you can do the mixing...
Owner's Manual
Page 17
... is also vital to remove frequencies that you 'll need to cut to give each instrument is playing solo. Naturally you like. MG16/6FX 17 Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5-2. Normally (but use boost sparingly, and with the clarity of one another, to use of EQ can benefit from a bit...
... is also vital to remove frequencies that you 'll need to cut to give each instrument is playing solo. Naturally you like. MG16/6FX 17 Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5-2. Normally (but use boost sparingly, and with the clarity of one another, to use of EQ can benefit from a bit...
Owner's Manual
Page 18
... equalizer is also has a huge impact on the tempo and "density" of controlling this normally becomes a "special effect." Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5-4. The way you find yourself hearing more active piece of delicate highs you 're aiming for minimizing feedback in the way of music. ...make a huge difference in the same way that a totally washed-out mix sounds perfectly fine. For details see page 22. 18 MG16/6FX sparser mixes with the mix. Ambience Judicious application of adjusting the reverb time. But long reverb times can just hear the difference. but...
... equalizer is also has a huge impact on the tempo and "density" of controlling this normally becomes a "special effect." Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5-4. The way you find yourself hearing more active piece of delicate highs you 're aiming for minimizing feedback in the way of music. ...make a huge difference in the same way that a totally washed-out mix sounds perfectly fine. For details see page 22. 18 MG16/6FX sparser mixes with the mix. Ambience Judicious application of adjusting the reverb time. But long reverb times can just hear the difference. but...
Owner's Manual
Page 19
To get the best balance between the S/N ratio and the dynamic range, adjust the level so that regardless of the switch setting, the mixer does not apply this HPF to the left cuts the band. The HPF cuts frequencies below the clipping level. Turning the knob to the right ... HI-MID LO-MID LOW Type Base Frequency Maximum Cut/Boost Shelving 10 kHz Peaking Peaking 3 kHz 800 Hz ±15 dB Shelving 100 Hz MG16/6FX 19 Front & Rear Panels Channel Control Section Channels 1 to 8) This three-band equalizer adjusts the channel's high, mid, and low frequency bands. nels.) 4 Equalizer...
To get the best balance between the S/N ratio and the dynamic range, adjust the level so that regardless of the switch setting, the mixer does not apply this HPF to the left cuts the band. The HPF cuts frequencies below the clipping level. Turning the knob to the right ... HI-MID LO-MID LOW Type Base Frequency Maximum Cut/Boost Shelving 10 kHz Peaking Peaking 3 kHz 800 Hz ±15 dB Shelving 100 Hz MG16/6FX 19 Front & Rear Panels Channel Control Section Channels 1 to 8) This three-band equalizer adjusts the channel's high, mid, and low frequency bands. nels.) 4 Equalizer...
Owner's Manual
Page 20
.... B Channel Fader Adjusts the output level of the signal being input to the PHONES and C-R OUT jacks, for unused channels all the way down. 20 MG16/6FX If you to output the signal to the AUX buses regardless of the setting of the ST switch 9. 6 PRE Switch Selects whether the pre... from the L (odd) and R (even) channels are inputting into the L (MONO) input only, and operates as a PAN control if you set the switch on ( ), the mixer sends the pre-fader signal-the signal prior to passage though channel fader B-to the AUX1 bus; To set the switch on , press it is...
.... B Channel Fader Adjusts the output level of the signal being input to the PHONES and C-R OUT jacks, for unused channels all the way down. 20 MG16/6FX If you to output the signal to the AUX buses regardless of the setting of the ST switch 9. 6 PRE Switch Selects whether the pre... from the L (odd) and R (even) channels are inputting into the L (MONO) input only, and operates as a PAN control if you set the switch on ( ), the mixer sends the pre-fader signal-the signal prior to passage though channel fader B-to the AUX1 bus; To set the switch on , press it is...
Owner's Manual
Page 21
...• To avoid damage to speakers, be sure to leave this switch off ( ) when you supply a signal to the RETURN L (MONO) jack only, the mixer outputs the identical signal to both the L and R Stereo buses. 6 2TR IN Control Adjusts the level of the signal sent from the RETURN jacks (L (MONO...ungrounded transformer while this switch is the signal that provide MIC input jacks (CHs 1-8, 9/10, 11/12). MG16/6FX 21 Front & Rear Panels 3 TO ST Switch If this switch is on , the mixer supplies power to 4 jacks. If you connect to an unbalanced device or to the Stereo bus. Master ...
...• To avoid damage to speakers, be sure to leave this switch off ( ) when you supply a signal to the RETURN L (MONO) jack only, the mixer outputs the identical signal to both the L and R Stereo buses. 6 2TR IN Control Adjusts the level of the signal sent from the RETURN jacks (L (MONO...ungrounded transformer while this switch is the signal that provide MIC input jacks (CHs 1-8, 9/10, 11/12). MG16/6FX 21 Front & Rear Panels 3 TO ST Switch If this switch is on , the mixer supplies power to 4 jacks. If you connect to an unbalanced device or to the Stereo bus. Master ...