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Safety Instructions/Consignes de sécurité/Sicherheitsvorkehrungen/Instrucciones de seguridad WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture. To reduce the hazard of electrical shock, do not remove cover or back. No user serviceable parts inside. Please refer all servicing to qualified personnel.
Table of Contents Introduction 2 XM610 Features 3 Controls and Functions Front Panel Layout Front Panel Controls 4 5–9 XM610 Input and Output Connections 10–12 Operating the XM610 13–15 System Set-ups 16–17 XM610 Wiring Guide 18 Specifications 19 Block Diagram 20 Copyright 2004, Samson Technologies Corp. Printed March, 2004 Samson Technologies Corp. 575 Underhill Blvd. P.O. Box 9031 Syosset, NY 11791-9031 Phone: 1-800-3-SAMSON (1-800-372-6766) Fax: 516-364-3888 www.samsontech.
XM610 Features The Samson XM610 Powered Mixer is a comprehensive, all-in-one mixer / power amplifier solution for live sound applications. Here are some of its main features: • Six channel powered mixer in ergonomically correct kickback enclosure allowing you to easily see and operate the front panel functions. • Six Mic / Line inputs with 1/4-inch phone and XLR connectors. • 2 x 300 Watts, or 300 Watt Main / 300 Watt Monitor, or 600 Watts Bridged power operating modes.
Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Samson XM610 powered mixer! The XM610 is a six channel, 600 Watt powered mixer with a built-in, 24 BIT DSP (Digital Signal Processor) effects. The XM610 will give you clean, clear sound reproduction thanks to the high quality, low noise microphone preamps, super clean mix bus, two on-board 7-band graphic equalizers and the high output/low distortion power amplifier.
Controls and Functions FRONT PANEL LAYOUT 4
Controls and Functions FRONT PANEL CONTROLS INPUT CHANNEL SECTION The following section details each part of the XM610’s INPUT CHANNELS including the 3-BAND EQ, the MONITOR and EFX sends, LEVEL and PAD controls. 1 HIGH MID LOW - Channel Equalizer The XM610 input channels feature a 3-band equalizer allowing you to adjust the high, mid, and low frequencies independently on each channel. The channel’s frequency response is flat when the knobs are in the "12:00" position.
Controls and Functions FRONT PANEL CONTROLS 24 BIT DIGITAL EFFECT SECTION The XM610 features a built-in, 24 Bit Digital Effects processor with 100 high quality, studio grade effects like Delay, Chorus and Reverb. The following section describes the features of the powerful on-board digital effects section. 6 SELECT - Digital Effects Select Switch The SELECT switch allows you to pick one of the 100 built-in digital effects. Simply rotate the SELECT to choose the effect.
Controls and Functions FRONT PANEL CONTROLS POWER AMP SECTION The XM610’s power amplifier section can be configured to operate several ways depending on whether you need MAIN plus MONITOR amplifiers to power your speakers, or if you just need more power for the MAIN speakers. The section below describes the XM610 power amp modes. 11 Mode - Power amp Mode switch The MODE switch is used to select one of three different operating modes, MAINMONITOR, MAIN-MAIN and MAINBRIDGE.
Controls and Functions FRONT PANEL CONTROLS MAIN SECTION The XM610 has two internal power amplifiers and depending on the power amp MODE selection switch, the amplifiers are sent the MAIN or MONITOR bus signal. The following section describes the MAIN bus operation, which allows you to adjust the over-all tone and volume, and specify the mix level of the built-in effects.
Controls and Functions FRONT PANEL CONTROLS MONITOR SECTION 19 The XM610 has two internal power amplifiers and depending on the MODE selection switch, the amplifiers received their input signals from the MAIN or MONITOR bus. The following section describes the MONITOR bus operation, which allows you to adjust the overall tone and volume, and specify the mix level of the built-in effects.
XM610 Input and Output Connections 1 3 2 4 6 5 7 8 9 CHANNEL 1–6 MIC and LINE INPUTS The XM610’s six input channels each have a LINE level, Hi-Z (High Impedance) input and a MIC level, Low-Z (Low impedance) input. By using the PAD switches, you can connect a variety of signal sources from microphones to line level devices such as synthesizers, drum machines and direct boxes.
XM610 Input and Output Connections EXTERNAL OUTPUT JACKS The XM610 features several output connectors allowing you to interface a variety of external devices. A stereo recording device such as a cassette recorder can be connected to the REC OUT jacks, and additional power amplifiers can be connected to the MONITOR and MAIN output jacks. 7 REC OUT - Record Output The signal present at this connector is the MAIN bus signal before it has passed through the MASTER level control and graphic equalizer.
XM610 Input and Output Connections SPEAKER CONNECTION The XM610’s power amplifier section can be configured to operate several ways depending on the setting of the power amp MODE switch located on the front panel. This allows you to choose whether you need MAIN plus MONITOR amplifiers to power your speakers, or if you just need more power for the MAIN speakers. For more information on the power amp MODE switch, see the section POWER AMP SECTION on page 7 of this manual.
Operating the XM610 BASIC OPERATION The following section explains the basic operation of the XM610. CONNECTING MICROPHONES AND INSTRUMENTS 1. Before connecting mics or instruments, make sure that the power of all your systems components, including the XM610, is turned off. Also, make sure that the level controls of each channel of the XM610 and the VOLUME control of the MAIN section are turned all the way down. 2.
Operating the XM610 USING THE DIGITAL EFFECTS The XM610 features a built-in, high quality, 24 BIT Digital Signal Processor offering studio grade effects. The DSP features clean Delay, lush Reverbs and multi-effects like Chorus + Delay or Chorus + Reverb. You can add a broad range of studio quality effects by simply dialing through the 100 presets. The following details the operation of the internal DSP effects: 1.
Operating the XM610 USING AN EXTERNAL EFFECT If you prefer to use an external device for effects processing, you can easily connect the unit using the XM610 EFX bus. Follow the simple steps below to interface your processor: 1. Set the MONITOR section VOLUME control to the "0" position. 2. Raise the EFFECT controls for the channels to which you want the external effect to be applied. 3. Now adjust the EFX LEVEL to about half way. 4.
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This system shows the XM610 power amp operating in MAIN/MONITOR mode, with two speakers connected to POWER AMP 2 and two monitor speakers speaker connected to POWER AMP 1. For inputs, two microphones are connected to channel 1 and 2’s lowimpedance inputs, and the output of the Bass Direct Box is also connected to the LowImpedance input on channel 4. The Keyboards, as well as the Lead and Rhythm Guitar signal processors’ outputs, are connected to the XM610’s line inputs.
XM610 Wiring Guide CONNECTING THE XM610 The are several ways to interface the XM610 to support a variety of applications. The XM610 features balanced inputs and outputs, so connecting balanced and unbalanced signals is possible.
Specifications SPECIFICATIONS Rated Output power Frequency response Total Harmonic Distortion HUM & Noise (Average, RS+150Ω) (with 22Hz~22KHz BPF) 300W/4Ω@0.1% THD at 1KHz per amplifier 20Hz~20KHz+/-0.5dB@1W Output into 8Ω (AMP OUT) 20 Hz~20KHz+/-0.4@+4dB Output into 10kΩ (MAIN OUT, MONITOR OUT, AUX 2 SEND) Less than 0.06%@20Hz~20KHz, 75W output into4Ω (AMP OUT) Less than 0.
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