EarMix™ 16M 16x2 AVB-networked personal monitor mixer Owner’s Manual ® www.presonus.
Table of Contents 1 Overview — 1 1.1 Introduction — 1 1.2 About This Manual — 1 1.3 What’s in the Box — 2 1.3.1 What Else You Need — 2 1.1 Companion PreSonus Products — 3 2 Getting Started — 4 2.1 Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer — 4 2.2 Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer — 12 3 Hookup — 23 3.1 Rear-Panel Connections — 23 3.2 Top Panel Controls — 24 3.2.1 Store and Recall — 24 3.2.2 Group — 25 3.2.3 Channel Controls — 26 3.2.
1 1.1 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Overview Introduction 1 Overview 1.1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing an EarMix 16M Personal Monitor Mixer. Designed to work seamlessly with the PreSonus StudioLive® Series III digital mixers, the EarMix 16M personal monitor mixer provides a high-quality, expandable, networked monitoring solution for stage, installed sound systems, and studio recording.
1 1.3 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Overview What’s in the Box What’s in the Box 1.
1 1.1 Overview Companion PreSonus Products •• EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Mic Stand Adapter (optional) PreSonus has designed the EM-Mount to mount the EarMix 16M on a mic stand, allowing you to put your mix at your fingertips. This accessory is sold separately at your favorite PreSonus dealer or at www.presonus.com. 1.
2 2.1 2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Getting Started A good monitor mix is critical for musicians to perform to the best of their ability. Whether you’re on stage or in the studio, the EarMix 16M can make getting the best mix in your ears quick and easy. Before you begin, here are a few rules to get you started: •• If your mixer is not properly gain staged, none of your mixes will sound their best, including your monitor mixes.
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2 2.1 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Step 1: Route Your Audio 1. Press the Home button on your StudioLive Series III mixer. FX A FX B FX C FX D Monitor EFFECTS MASTER MASTER CONTROL Ch. 1 1 System Global Lockout 2. Press the Audio Routing icon on the Touchscreen. 17 dB PreampGa.. TB Audio Routing Talkback Edit Audio Routing Capture FX A FX B FX C FX D Utils EFFECTS MASTER MASTER CONTROL 3.
2 2.1 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer Name: EarMix 16M 1-8 Source Selection: FX A 5. Next you will need to select the AVB Sends from your mixer to which you route to your EarMix. By default, the last 16 AVB Inputs are patched from Flex Mixes 1-16. In our example, let’s patch Inputs 41-48 to EarMix Sources 1-8 and Inputs 49-56 to EarMix Sources 9-16.
2 2.1 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 4. On your EarMix, press the Channel 1 Select button. 5. Press Link in the Selected Channel section. This will create a stereo input on your EarMix for your stereo drum mix. 6. To provide your musicians with the most flexibility, it is recommended that you provide unique control over the kick and snare in addition to the overall drum mix. Press Mix 3 on your StudioLive.
2 2.1 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 9. Raise the level of the Snare channel to unity.
2 2.1 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Step 4: Guitars Inputs 1. Press Mix 6 on your StudioLive mixer. User BANK 2. Raise the Rhythm Guitar channel to unity.
2 2.1 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Getting Started Using a StudioLive Series III Front-of-House mixer 4. Select Channel 9 on your EarMix 16M. 5. Press Link on your EarMix to stereo link inputs 9 and 10. Your EarMix 16M is now setup as follows: Drums Drums (L) (R) Kick Snare Bass Rythm Acous Lead Gtr Keys (L) Keys (R) Step 7: Backing Vocals 1. Press Mix 11 on your StudioLive mixer.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Your EarMix 16M is now setup as follows: Drums Drums (L) (R) Kick Snare Bass Rythm Acous Lead Gtr Keys (L) Keys (R) Back Vox Step 8: Lead Vocals 1. Press Mix 12 on your StudioLive mixer.
2 2.2 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer Connect your Front-of-House mixer, StudioLive 16R and EarMix 16M units as shown below and power on your equipment: acoustic guitar/DI lead guitar amp rhythm guitar amp bass/DI Ch 10 Ch 9 Ch 6 Ch 5 lead vocal keyboard/DI backup vocal mics Ch 8 Ch 4 Ch 2 Ch 7 Ch 3 Ch 18 Ch 17 Ch 16 Ch 15 Ch 14 Ch 13 Ch 12 Ch 11 Ch 1 drum kit StudioLive 32.4.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual In our example, we will only be using six of the StudioLive 32.4.2AI’s aux mix outputs, leaving the remaining six available for other uses (external effects processing, overflow rooms, subwoofer networks, etc.). We will also be connecting the direct outputs for Channels 1-2, 15-17, and 24 as follows: StudioLive 32.4.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 5. Select EarMix 16M in the device list. If you are unsure which EarMix 16M is which, click or tap the Identify button. This will flash the Select buttons on the currently selected EarMix 16M. 6. For the purposes of this tutorial, select Sends 1-8 for 1-8 Source Selection and Sends 9-16 for Source Selection 9-16. 7. Press apply to finish.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Step 2: Drums 1. Press the Aux 1 Select button on your StudioLive 32.4.2AI mixer. 2. Press Link in the Fat Channel to create a stereo Aux mix. 3. Press the Aux 1 Mix button. 4. Create a mix on Aux Mix 1-2 for your drum channels. Because this aux mix is stereo, you can configure pans as well as levels by pressing the Aux 2 Mix/Pan button. 5.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 8. On the currently selected EarMix, press the Channel 1 Select button. 9. Press Link in the Selected Channel section. This will create a stereo input on your EarMix for your stereo drum mix. 10. To provide your musicians with the most flexibility, it is recommended that you provide unique control over the kick and snare in addition to the overall drum mix.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 2. Create a blend between the DI channel and the amplifier channel. 3. In the UC Surface instance connected to the StudioLive 16R, raise the Channel 5 fader to unity. Add compression and EQ to taste. Again, the more cohesive sound with which you provide your musician, the easier it will be for them to create a good mix of their own.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 2. Press Link in the Fat Channel to create a stereo Aux mix. 3. Create a mix on Aux 3-4 for keyboard channels. 4. In UC Surface, select Channel 9 and link it to Channel 10. Like the drum mix, you can configure pans as well as levels. This will allow you to create a more polished mix. If you would like to add Fat Channel compression and EQ, do that as well. 5. Select Channel 9 on your EarMix 16M.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Step 7: Backing Vocals 1. Press the Aux 6 Mix button on your StudioLive mixer. 2. Create a mix using your background vocals. 3. In UC Surface raise the Channel 11 fader to Unity and add EQ and Dynamics to taste. Your EarMix 16M is now setup as follows: Drums Drums (L) (R) Kick Snare Bass Rythm Acous Lead Gtr Keys (L) Keys (R) Back Vox Step 8: Lead Vocals 1.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 3. Click or Tap on the AVB Outputs tab. 4. In the Digital Patch bay, scroll over until the top list of mixer streams displays FlexMix 1 and FlexMix 2. In the router, patch FlexMix 1 to AVB13 and FlexMix 2 to AVB14. 5. Close out the Settings and select FlexMix 1. 6. Change its configuration setting to Sub.
2 2.2 Getting Started Using a StudioLive Classic- or AI-series Front-of-House mixer EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual 7. Patch FXA to Subgroup 1 by clicking on it in the mixer. 8. Raise the Subgroup 1 fader to Unity. 9. Repeat Steps 5-8 with FlexMix 2 and FXB 10. Select FXA and blend your vocal channels to taste. 11. Select FXB and blend your instrument channels to taste. Power User Tip: If you would like your FX Returns to be stereo, stereo link the FlexMixes and route accordingly.
3 3.1 Hookup Rear-Panel Connections 3 Hookup 3.1 Rear-Panel Connections EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Headphones. This is the Headphone output for your EarMix 16M. This high-powered headphone amplifier was designed to drive low-impedance devices such as professional-caliber in-ear monitors. The output level is controlled via the Phones knob on the top panel.
3 3.2 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Hookup Top Panel Controls 3.2 Top Panel Controls 3.2.1 Store and Recall You can store 16 scenes on your EarMix 16M. This allows you to preserve mixes and EQ settings. To Store a new Scene: 1. Press the Store button. All the Select buttons will begin to flash. 2. Press and Hold the Select button for the Library position to which you’d like to save your Scene.
3 3.2 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Hookup Top Panel Controls 3.2.2 Group Grouping channels allows you create submixes on your EarMix 16M so that you can control the relative level of every channel in the group with the Level encoder. Creating, Modifying or Querying a Group: 1. Select the channel you’d like to add or remove from a group. 2. Press the Group button to enter Group Assign Mode. If the currently selected channel is already a part of a group, its companion channels will illuminate solid.
3 3.2 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Hookup Top Panel Controls 3.2.3 Channel Controls When a channel is selected, the following controls will be available: 7 6 5 1 2 3 4 1. Link. Creates a stereo pair with the adjacent channel (odd/even pairs only). 2. Solo. Isolates the Selected channel in the mix. 3. Mute. Mutes the Selected channel in the mix. 4. Pan. Set the panning of the selected channel. The LEDs above display the current setting. 5. Level. Sets the level of the selected channel in the mix.
3 3.2 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Hookup Top Panel Controls Master Controls 3.2.4 6 1 2 3 4 5 1. Mono. Sums the stereo mix mono. 2. Select. Selects the Main Mix to add EQ and Limiting as well as adjust the overall level of the mix. 3. Aux Input. Adjusts the level of the Aux Input source. 4. Line Out. Adjusts the level for the stereo Line Outputs. 5. Phones. Adjusts the Headphone output level. 6. Main Meters. Displays the level of the main EarMix 16M mix. Resetting Your EarMix 3.2.
3 3.2 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Hookup Top Panel Controls 3.2.6 Adjust LED Brightness You can adjust the brightness of the LEDs on your EarMix 16M between three different levels. This allows you to compensate for ambient light, depending on the environment in which you’re using your EarMix 16M. To adjust the LED brightness, press and hold the Recall button and turn the Level encoder to the desired luminosity.
4 4.1 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Technical Information Specifications 4 Technical Information 4.1 Specifications Headphone Output Type ¼” TRS Female, active stereo Maximum Output 150 mW/ch. @ 60Ω load Frequency Response 20 Hz – 20 kHz (± 0.05 dB) THD+N 0.01%, 1 kHz, max gain, 20 Hz BW, unwtd Line Outputs Type ¼” TRS Female, balanced Maximum Output Level +18 dBu, ±0.
5 5.1 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Warranty Warranty Information 5 Warranty 5.1 Warranty Information PreSonus’ warranty obligations for this hardware product are limited to the terms set forth below: How Consumer Law Relates To This Warranty: THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE (OR BY COUNTRY OR PROVINCE).
5 5.1 EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual Warranty Warranty Information Who This Warranty Protects: This Warranty protects only the original retail purchaser of the product (products that have transferable warranties are excluded from this provision provided the customer and the product are registered with PreSonus).
5 5.1 Warranty Warranty Information EarMix 16M Owner’s Manual How to Get Warranty Service (outside of USA): 1. You must have an active user account with PreSonus and your hardware must be on file with your account. If you do not have an account, please go to: http:// www.presonus.com/registration and complete the registration process. 2. Contact the Technical Support/Service Department for your region at http://www.presonus.
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