Specifications

Guided Tour
Studio 32 Reference Manual 23
Control Room System
The SOLO switches in each channel, along with the Control Room switches and
Headphone section, make up the Control Room system of the Studio 32. This is the
engineer’s mix. It allows you to audition the different mixes that are going on at
any given time and to hear individual inputs when needed, all without disturbing
the other mixes that are going to the musicians, the PA system or recorder. It also
controls the stereo meter display.
Normally, the CONTROL ROOM OUT jacks are connected directly to the inputs of
a stereo amplifier such as the Alesis RA-100, which power a set of near-field
monitors such as the Alesis Monitor One or Point Seven reference monitors mounted
within a few feet of the console.
Control Room source
The Control Room can selectively monitor the Main outputs (L/R), MONITOR 1/2,
the Aux mixes, the Group mixes, or an external mixdown tape deck. The lowest
switch which is pressed will be the source; if no switches are down, the L/R mix
will be heard. Press the MONO button when you want to hear how a mix will
sound in a single speaker; this will help you avoid phase cancellation problems.
The Headphone outputs may receive signal either from MONITOR 1/2, or the same
signal that the Control Room is hearing.
Solo/PFL
Regardless of what’s chosen as the control room source, if any of the twenty SOLO
buttons are pressed anywhere on the console, the solo mix automatically becomes
the control room source. Because there are so many solo buttons, we make it easy for
you to find the one that’s “taken over” by turning on a green LED over the SOLO