Product manual

O P E R A T I N G I N S T R U C TI O N S
Quick Start
3.1
Monitor
Head
phone
ARC-8
Mic 1
Mic 2
Cue Cue Cue
Cue
Cue
CueTalk
Arrakis Systems inc.
External
PC
CH 3
CH 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Left
Right
Program
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Two Mic channels
For normal on air talent
or a Host and Guest talk
format.
Channel one features a
‘Talk’ button to talk to the
phone hybrid.
Five line channels
For CD players, MP3 play-
ers, and other analog
sources.
Channels 3-7 have BOTH
unbalanced and balanced
stereo input jacks
PC channel
The ‘B’ input on channel 8 is an inter-
nal PC USB sound card for playing
directly in digital from a Windows PC.
The ‘A’ input is a stereo, RCA, unbal-
anced, -10dBu, consumer level input.
Channel Seven Phone
Channel 7 can be used as a Tele-
phone input and generates a Mix-
minus output to be connected to
an external phone hybrid. Turn
the Cue button on to listen off-
line to the caller. Push the Talk
switch on the Mic one channel to
use the Control room mic to talk
off-line to the caller (the caller is
auto-cued). To place the caller on
air just turn the channel on.
Monitor &
Headphone
Level Controls
slide faders for con-
trol of monitoring
level
Monitor Input
Selector
selects an External
audio input (such as
off air) as the
source for the Moni-
tor & Headphone
systems
CH 8 A/B switch
select between a stereo line level input and
an internal PC USB soundcard
VU Meters
LED VU meters with accurate VU ballistics
for the main Program bus
CH 3 A/B switch
select between an unbalanced or
balanced source input
Auto-cue into the Monitor and Headphone systems
The ARC-8 features a cue system that plays through the monitor and headphone systems. To cue a channel, depress the cue switch. The
Program audio in the Monitor speakers will dim and the Cue audio from the cue’d channel will play through the monitor speakers and
through the headphones.
Channel On-off switches
Cue
switchs
Talk to the Phone
hybrid output, Ch 7
will be heard in cue