User manual AVIOM A-16

[. . . ] A-16 Personal Monitor Mixing System User Guide Information in this document is subject to change. 1157 Phoenixville Pike Suite 201 West Chester, PA 19380 USA 610-738-9005 610-738-9950 (fax) www. aviom. com READ THIS FIRST Important Safety Instructions 1. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug. [. . . ] This layout is ideal for use with the A-16. 30 If your mixer has direct outputs available, then a cable from each channel that needs to be sent to the monitors is connected to the Transmitter inputs. A maximum of sixteen direct outputs can be plugged into the Transmitter unit. If you have more than sixteen direct outputs to be monitored, then some of the channels will need to be sub-mixed. This can be accomplished on most consoles by using a bus output, described below. Bus Outputs A bus output is typically used to route audio signals to a recording device or to control the volume of a group of channels from a single fader. Most mixers equipped with bus outputs have fewer bus outputs than channels. To use a bus output with the A-16T, the individual channels in your mixer need to be assigned to the desired bus output. This is usually done with a selector button located somewhere within each channel strip. Assigning a channel to a bus output does not remove the signal from the main mix. (Some mixers do allow the option, however. ) Specific instructions about how to use your particular mixer in this case are beyond the scope of this document. With a channel assigned to a bus output, you can then control the level of the bus independent of the other levels on the mixer. In fact, if you assign multiple channels to a bus output, this acts as a sub-mixer, combining the audio from all assigned channels into one signal. The individual channel level fader is used to set the relative balance of all channels assigned to the bus. As an example, you could assign all the channels of the main mixer devoted to drums to a bus. As mentioned previously, the relative mix of all the components of the drum sound would remain the same; the levels are based on the individual channel's level settings. By sending all the drum channels to a bus, the entire drum kit sound can be raised or lowered in volume from a single fader. (By using two bus outputs a stereo drum sub-mix with panning can be created. More on this below. ) The same theory extends to the operation of the A-16. If you send the sub-mixed drum sound in the example above from a console bus output to the A-16T Transmitter, then each Personal Mixer in the system has a single channel devoted to the drums. Each performer can control the amount of drums in his/her mix with a single knob. He/she cannot, however, change the relative balance of the drums that make up this mix (more snare, less cymbals, etc. ). This change would need to be made at the main mixer, and would affect the balance in all connected A-16 Mixers. 31 Aviom A-16 Personal Monitor Mixing System You can extend this idea further to create a stereo drum mix. This requires that the drums be assigned to two bus outputs, usually consecutive numbers such as 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc. [. . . ] In Group edit mode, select the Channel and check the level for that Channel by looking at the LEDs in the Volume indicator. Raise the volume by turning the Channel VOLUME knob; re-save the Group and Preset if necessary. Problem: The A-Net LED is on, but there is no sound Possible Solutions: · The A-Net Active LED indicates that the input to the receiving device is properly connected to another A-Net device. It does not indicate that all devices in a system are properly connected, however. [. . . ]