OPERATOR'S MANUAL Version 1 first data 20090110 LTD. 2117 East 5th Street Superior, WI 54880 USA tel: 715-398-3627 fax: 715-398-3279 www.cranesong.com © 2008 Crane Song, LTD. Subject to change without notice. 1 Printed in the U.S.A.
Egret is a highly flexible workstation back end. It contains 8 channels of high quality D/A converters and a stereo line level mixer with color options to help bring analog summed digital mixes to life. The stereo mixer has a level control, a aux send which is post level control, a color control, and a pan control on each channel. Each channel also contains an analog / digital source button, and solo mute buttons.
COLOR THE COLOR KNOB PROVIDES AN ADJUSTABLE TAPE - LIKE COLOR THAT SOFTENS TRANSITS AND ADDS SECOND AND THIRD ORDER HARMONICS PAN POSITIONS THE CHANNEL OUTPUT THROUGH THE LEFT RIGHT STEREO BUS SOLO BUTTON BY PRESSING THIS IN THE CHANNEL IS SOLOED THE RED LED LIGHTS ON ALL MUTED CHANNELS MUTE BUTTON BY PRESSING THIS IN THE CHANNEL IS MUTED.
PHONES THIS IS THE LEVEL OF THE HEADPHONES. THIS IS TO MONITOR THE STEREO BUS AND IS DESIGNED FOR 1 HEAD PHONE AUX MASTER THIS IS THE AUX BUS OF EFFECTS SEND BUS MASTER LEVEL MASTER THIS IS THE STEREO BUS LEVEL. AND IS A STEPPED ATTENUATOR. THE GREEN LED SHOWES THE LEVEL SETTING METER THE METER IS PEAK READING WITH THE OVER LOAD LED (RED) COMMING ON AT +25DBU. SOURCE THIS IS DIGITAL INPUT SELECTION. IT HAS 3 CHOICES. THE LEFT MOST IS AES/ EBU THE MIDDLE POSITION IS ADAT INPUT.
AES INPUT 8 CHANNEL D/A CONVERTOR CHANNELS 1 TO 8 DIRECT ANALOG OUTPUTS XLR XLR ADAT INPUT SELECT DIGITAL SOURCE COLOR INPUT CHANNEL 1 OF 8 SHOWN AUX RETURNS SELECT ANALOG SOURCE AUX SEND LEVEL PAN TRS CHANNELS 1 TO 8 DIRECT ANALOG INPUTS HEADPHONES AUX SUMMING BUS DISCRETE STEREO SUMMING BUS WITH STEPPED ATTENUATOR EXPANDER INPUT - OUTPUT AUX ANALOG OUTPUT STEREO ANALOG OUTPUT
SEND TO EXTERNAL RETURN FORM EXTERNAL DEVICE DEVICE USING THE DIRECT ANALOG OUTPUT AND THE ANALOG INPUT AS AN INSERT POINT
AES INPUTS CHANNELS 1-8 SAMPLE RATE TO 192K ADAT INPUT INPUT A IS THE 48K INPUT INPUT B IS THE SECOND SET OF CHANNELS IN THE SMUX MODE DIGITAL INTERFACE
16 CHANNEL SUMMING EGRET #1 THE SOURCE THIS EGRET FEEDS THE SECOND EGRET.
24 CHANNEL SUMMING EGRET #1 EGRET #2 THE SOURCE THIS EGRET FEEDS THE THIRD EGRET. THE MASTER LEVEL CONTROLS ON THIS UNIT CHANGES ONLY THE LEVELS OF THIS EGRET SUMMING INTO THE THIRD EGRET THE SOURCE THIS EGRET FEEDS THE THIRD EGRET.
EGRET DB-25 EXPANDER CONNECTOR PIN OUT RIGHT 1 RETURN 1 RIGHT 1 RETURN + 2 LEFT 1 RETURN 3 LEFT 1 RETURN + 4 RIGHT 2 RETURN 5 RIGHT 2 RETURN + 6 LEFT 2 RETURN 7 LEFT 2 RETURN + 8 GND 9 LEFT SEND + (MAIN OUT) 10 LEFT SEND - (MAIN OUT) 11 RIGHT SEND + (MAIN OUT) 12 RIGHT SEND - (MAIN OUT) 13 AUX RETURN 1 SIG 14 AUX RETURN 1 SIG + 15 AUX RETURN 2 SIG 16 AUX RETURN 2 SIG + 17 GND 18 SOLO BUS LOGIC 19 SOLO BUS LOGIC 20 GND 21 GND 22 GND 23 AUX SEND + 24 AUX SEND 25
1 25 14 14 25 2 UNIT EXPANSION CONNECTOR 1 13
THIS END IS THE DESTINATION UNIT THE MASTER OUTPUT THIS END IS THE SOURCE UNIT RIGHT 2 RETURN RIGHT 2 RETURN + LEFT 2 RETURN LEFT 2 RETURN + GND LEFT SEND + LEFT SEND RIGHT SEND + RIGHT SEND - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 RIGHT 1 RETURN RIGHT 1 RETURN + LEFT 1 RETURN LEFT 1 RETURN + AUX RETURN 2 SIG AUX RETURN 2 SIG + GND SOLO BUS SOLO BUS GND GND GND AUX SEND + AUX SEND - 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 AUX RETURN 1 SIG AUX RET
INTERFACING - SPECIFICATIONS Input and Output : Connections Pin 2 is Sig + , Pin 3 is Sig- , Pin 1 is GND Power: 100, 120, 230,240 volt; 50/60 Hz; 55 watts MDL 0.6A Fuse for 100V and 120V MDL 0.3A Fuse for 230V and 240V Pilot Lamp: # 7335 Shipping Weight: 19 lbs. (8.6 kg) Depth Behind Panel: 12.5 inches (31.
