Manual
Table Of Contents
- Overview
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: PRO Series Live Audio Systems
- Chapter 3: About The Control Centre
- Getting Started
- Chapter 4: Setting Up The System
- Basic Operation Of The PRO Series
- Chapter 5: Before You Start
- Chapter 6: Working With The Control Centre
- Chapter 7: Navigation
- Chapter 8: Patching
- Chapter 9: Basic Operation
- Setting a mic amplifier’s input gain
- Setting the high and low pass filters
- Input equalisation (E zone)
- Input dynamics processing (D zone)
- Output processing
- Using VCA/POP groups
- Setting up a mix
- Using fader flip
- Setting up the effects rack
- Simple routing to master stereo outputs
- Scene and show management (automation)
- Configuring the inputs and outputs
- Using copy and paste
- User library (presets)
- Surround panning
- Two-man operation
- Saving your show files to a USB memory stick
- Security (locking mode)
- Security (locking mode)
- Advanced Operation And Features
- Chapter 10: Stereo Linking
- Chapter 11: Panning
- Chapter 12: Soloing
- Chapter 13: Muting
- Chapter 14: Monitors And Communications
- Chapter 15: Graphic Equaliser (GEQ)
- Chapter 16: Internal Effects
- Overview of the internal effects
- About the effect window
- Working with the effects
- Effect configuration
- Effect programs
- Delay effect
- Virtual DN780 Reverb effect
- Flanger effect
- Phaser effect
- Pitch Shifter effect
- SQ1 Dynamics effect
- 3-Band Compressor effect
- Submonster
- DN60 Spectrum Analyser
- Tape Saturation
- Variable Phase
- Dual Stereo Delay
- Ambience Reverb
- Vintage Room Reverb
- Chamber Reverb
- Hall Reverb
- Plate Reverb
- Stereo Graphic EQ
- Dynamic EQ
- Matrix Mixer
- Stereo Chorus
- UNCL.D
- Loudspeaker Processor
- De-esser
- TC M350
- MIDAS Spectrum Analyser
- MIDAS Automixer
- Chapter 17: Control Groups
- Chapter 18: Copy And Paste
- Chapter 19: Assignable Controls (I Zone)
- Chapter 20: Scenes And Shows (Automation)
- About automation
- Automation controls
- Automation screen
- Using the right-click menu
- Scene contents
- Point scenes
- Numbering and navigation
- Global scene
- Initial snapshot scene (safe scene)
- Date and time
- Scene cue list
- Editing scene properties
- Adding a new scene
- Copying and deleting scenes
- Changing the order of the scenes
- Overriding store scope
- Using patching in automation
- Using zoom
- Show files
- Rehearsals
- Safes
- Chapter 21: Scope (Automation)
- Chapter 22: Events (Automation)
- Chapter 23: Crossfades (Automation)
- Chapter 24: User Libraries (Presets)
- Chapter 25: File Management
- Chapter 26: Using Other Devices With The PRO X
- Chapter 27: Changing The User Settings
- Setting the meter preferences
- Configuring a virtual soundcheck
- Restoring the PRO X defaults
- Checking the PRO X build information
- Setting the configuration preferences
- Changing the user interface preferences
- Configuring the channels, groups and internal units
- Changing the default input/output names
- Adjusting PRO X illumination
- Setting the time and date
- Chapter 28: Delay Compensation (Latency)
- Description
- Chapter 29: Panel Connections
- Chapter 30: Inputs
- Mic amp input gain (preliminary input processing)
- Chapter 31: Outputs
- Chapter 32: GUI Menu
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Application Notes
- Appendix B: Technical Specification
- Appendix C: KLARK TEKNIK DN370 GEQ
- Appendix D: KLARK TEKNIK DN780 Reverb
- Technical Specifications
- Appendix E: I/O Modules
- DL443 analogue Jack I/O module
- Appendix F: Replacing A Module
- Appendix G: Troubleshooting
- Appendix H: Updating PRO X Host Software
- Appendix I: Documentation
- Appendix K: Parameters Affected By Scope
- Appendix L: Parameters Affected By Automate Patching
- Appendix M: Parameters Protected By Safes
- Appendix N: Parameters Affected By Copy And Paste
- Appendix O: Parameters Affected By Stereo Linking
- Appendix P: Parameters Copied Through Scenes
- Appendix Q: Service Information
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Chapter 9: Basic Operation
This chapter is intended to familiarise you with the control centre by showing you
how to carry out some basic operations in order to get some audio out of it.
Note: As the operation of both input bays is principally the same, this chapter
will generally only show the operation of the 12-channel input bay. However,
any dierences in operation between the 4-channel and 12-channel input bays will
be highlighted.
Please don’t forget that, although this system is a complex, high-tech piece of
equipment, it is very easy to use.
Setting a mic amplier’s input gain
The control centre has two input gains per channel, one is the remote gain for the
analogue mic pre (stage box gain) and the other is the digital trim (console gain)
(see “Mic amp input gain (preliminary input processing)” in chapter 30). In its
default state, the stage box gain is in the channel strip and the console gain is in
each input fast strip. However, you can swap these sections over (by pressing the
gain swap button) to give you a more global control of the stage box gain.
>> To set the stage box gain/console gain
1. In the gain trim section of an input fast strip, press the quick access button
(see Figure 15 “Gain and lter sections of the input strips”). This selects
the input channel and assigns its conguration processing area to the GUI
channel strip, which contains the GAIN SWAP button.
2. Press the left-right arrow gain swap button (or click GAIN SWAP) to swap the
gain trim and stage box sections over. The following diagram shows an
example of each section.
3. Adjust the gain trim control knob (5dB steps from -2.5dB to +45dB) to the
required level to suit the MIDAS pre-amp characteristic. A suitable level
could be one that only just illuminates the yellow LEDs. Do this for each
required channel.
Drive the mic amps for that ‘MIDAS colouration’; feel free to overdrive if
you want.
4. After you have achieved the required gain state, press the left-right arrow
gain swap button (or click GAIN SWAP) to swap the gains back to their
default state.
5. Adjust the gain trim control knob to (this time) adjust the console digital
trim (+20dB to -40dB continuous trim) for your preferred gain structure.
6. Set analogue remotes for initial set-up, then adjust digital trim for showtime.
Figure 15: Gain and lter sections of the input strips
Note: The gain trim and stage box control knobs on the control surface will adjust whatever has been ‘swapped’ to their respective strips and not necessarily what their
names suggest. The stage box control knob (channel strip) always controls the alternative ‘swap’ to the ones shown in the input fast strips on the GUI screen.