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if you have all of your zones configured first, although you can edit your Scenarios (adding or removing
zones) as you go.
What are some best practices to follow or issues to consider when configuring and working with the
HAL paging system?
BEST PRACTICE: For a specific zone, place its Emergency Paging Zone block directly before the zone's
output block. If necessary to protect your equipment, however, you may want to include Compressor
or Limiter blocks between the Emergency Paging Zone and the output blocks.
BEST PRACTICE: It is best to have a single Scenario devoted to emergency paging. Do not include any
zones other than the Emergency zone in your Emergency Scenario.
WARNING! If you need a Scenario for paging into all zones, do not use the Emergency page zone for
this purpose. The HAL paging system is designed so that all paging stations play nicely with one
another, respectfully notifying a paging station if a Scenario is available to page into. If you include
the Emergency zone in a Scenario intended for ordinary pages to all zones, a page into that Scenario
will always duck all audio and, thus, step on any other page that may be occurring.
TIP: If possible, create all of your Paging Zones before creating your Scenarios. You can add and delete
Zones from Scenarios at any time, but it is easier to create a comprehensive paging system if all of your
Zones are available in the Paging Manager when you begin creation of your Scenarios. You may also
want to create all of your Paging Stations before creating Scenarios, as thinking in terms of a Paging
Station can help you define what your Scenarios should be.
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