User's Manual CONTROL60 30+30 Band Digital Equalizer R LTO www.altoproaudio.com Version 2.
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PREFACE Dear Customer: Thanks for choosing researches. LTO CONTROL60 and thanks for choosing one of the results of LTO AUDIO TEAM job and For our LTO AUDIO TEAM, music and sound are more than a job...are first of all passion and let us say our obsession! We have been designing professional audio products for a long time in cooperation with some of the major brands in the world in the audio field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................4 2. FEATURE LIST ......................................................................................................................................4 3. CONTROL ELEMENTS..........................................................................................................................4 3.1 The Front Panel 3.2 The Rear Panel 4.
1. INTRODUCTION Purchasing LTO CONTROL60, you purchase a very powerful equalizer, easy to use and contain in a very efficient single unit rack package. Our new CONTROL60 is a versatile and very powerful parametric/graphic PRE-EQ. It is based on 2 extremely powerful high speed 24 32-bit DSPs and very high quality 20-bit A/D and 24-bit D/A converters, preserving the pureness of analogue sound in your digital applications. It can be operated in 6 different modes: Graphic 2 30 Dual Mono 1/3 oct(GR.D.
13.Up key 14.Right key 15.Down key 16.Left key 17.LCD graphical display 128 18.Vu-meter 64 Power Switch With LED (1) Turns the apparatus on and off. Press the SW, the power LED inside the SW will turn on. Dial Control Knob (10) Used only to change editable values. 3.
4.2 Installation a. Standard Use The CONTROL60 may be placed almost anywhere: on a table, on top of an amp, next to a mixing console. If it will be on furniture, check the rubber feet provided to the bottom of the unit. Make sure to place the CONTROL60 away from other audio equipment that may induce fields, and away from the signal wiring.
source (instrument or mic) into the CONTROL60 before the mixer's channel input. Usually, insert connections require a special, stereo-splitting Y-cord to be connected, known as TRS connector. This connector has a stereo jack which plugs into mixer's channel insert socket, and a couple of mono jacks (input and output) which will plug into CONTROL60 via jack-XLR adapters. Fitting this kind of cabling will virtually insert into one mixer's channel the EQ process.
To load the preset. If the EQ is Dual Mono (DM), first choose the channel with the Channel key. It is very important that the preset to be loaded belong to the same type (PAR ST, MN, etc) indicated in the upper right corner to the window. If the user tries to load a different type or EMPTY preset, a warning "NO LOADING" will be shown. To return to main menu select the item RET and press ENTER. b. Store Preset With this function the user can store a preset into one of the 63 locations available to the user.
With Up/Down select one of the 6 possible EQ type (ex. Parametric mono 1 60). Selection is shown reversing the item. To confirm press enter. The following warning will be shown to the user: If confirmed, the system will load the new EQ type with a default preset. Whatever editing info which was not stored will be lost. Use UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT key to select one of the 4 fields. Use ENTER to access selected function sub-menu.
With the dial knob the parameter values can be changed (no confirmation needed). To get back to the main menu select RET and press ENTER. These two are system parameters and do not belong to any preset. 4.3.2 EDIT EQ Press EDIT key, the related LED on, this screen will present: Use UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to select an item; filter number, Gain, Freq, Bandwidth.
Use UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to select between Freq, Order relative to HP and LP (Butter worth). Dial changes selected values, while updating the graphics, the asterisk will be shown as above. The filter will be inserted into the signal path in real time (no confirmation needed). 4.3.4 AUX Press AUX key (the related LED is ON), this screen will present: Use UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to select between Delay Adjust, Delay Fine, Output Volumes and Input Gain. Dial changes selected values, no confirmation is needed.
Notes: If the system is in bypass whatever control change command is ignored, except controller # 86. Select the channel to edit by means of the controller 0 (bank). If the type of EQ is Graphic or Parametric mono (1x60), assign to controller 84 (Mode) the value to edit the first 30 filters and the value 1 to edit the following 30 filters. At EQ type change, the system loads a default preset belonging to the same EQ type. Warnings: 1.
Bandwidth 0.05 oct - 3 oct step 0.
6.TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Parametric Filters Band Pass Filters AUX Section Analog Input Section Analog Output Section Digital/Analog Interface Memory MIDI Section Power Supply User Interface Physical Gain Freq Bandwidth High pass Butterworth Freq Slope Low pass Butterworth Freq Slope Delay line Digital input gain Digital output volume Inputs Input Impedance Max. Input Level Outputs Output Impedance Max.
7. WARRANTY 1. WARRANTY REGISTRATION CARD To obtain Warranty Service, the buyer should first fill out and return the enclosed Warranty Registration Card within 10 days of the Purchase Date. All the information presented in this Warranty Registration Card gives the manufacturer a better understanding of the sales status, so as to purport a more effective and efficient after-sales warranty service.
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