Digital Mixing Studio Owner's Manual

Owner’s Manual
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Welcome .......................................... 5
Features ........................................... 5
Included items (please check) ....... 5
Turning On and Off the Power to the
Mixer ................................................ 8
Before Turning On the Power to the Mixer .............. 8
Turning the Power On and Off ................................ 8
Recording Basics ............................ 9
Techie Words? Don’t Be Afraid. .............................. 9
Signals — Level and Decibel ............................ 9
Balanced or Unbalanced? ................................ 9
How balanced lines work .................................. 9
How unbalanced lines work ............................ 10
Connector Variations ....................................... 10
Phone connectors ........................................... 10
RCA pin connectors ........................................ 10
Inside Your Mixer .................................................. 11
Basic Structure ................................................ 11
Monitor mix for musicians, external effects ..... 12
Front and Rear Panels ................... 13
Channel Control section ........................................ 13
Master Control section .......................................... 16
Meter section ......................................................... 17
Control Room section ............................................ 18
DAW Remote Control section ............................... 19
Rear I/O section .................................................... 20
Setting Up the Mixer ..................... 22
Setup Procedure ................................................... 22
n12 Setup Example (Home recording) .................. 22
n8 Setup Example (Home recording) .................... 23
Installing Monitor Speakers ................................... 23
A Hands-On Guide to the n8/n12 ... 24
Let’s Hear It! .......................................................... 24
Connecting sound sources and monitor
devices ............................................................ 24
Adjusting the gain ........................................... 24
Setting up the monitoring environment ........... 25
Adjusting the volume level .............................. 26
Making Great Mixes .............................................. 28
Manipulating compression .............................. 28
Mastery of EQ .................................................. 29
Panning and balancing ................................... 30
Mixing into stereo ............................................ 30
Applying reverb ............................................... 31
Soloing a channel ............................................ 32
Using the n8/n12 with Cubase 4/
Cubase Studio 4/Cubase AI4 ......... 33
What you can do using the n8/n12 with Cubase ... 33
Computer setup for the Link function .................... 34
Using the Link Function ......................................... 37
Remotely controlling the Cubase transport
section and audio tracks ................................. 37
Remotely adjusting the click sound
(metronome) .................................................... 37
Selecting the Work mode ................................ 37
Let’s start our recording session! .......................... 39
Mixing signals on the n8/n12, then recording . 39
Recording n8/n12 input channel signals directly
to Cubase ........................................................ 41
Mixing recorded tracks .......................................... 43
Mixing audio tracks ......................................... 43
Mixing down .................................................... 45
Monitoring in a Surround Sound
Environment (n12 only) .................. 46
Connecting surround speakers ............................. 46
Placement of the surround speakers .................... 46
Setting up surround monitoring ............................. 47
Replacing the Sweet Spot Data .... 48
Using the n8/n12 with Software
Other Than Cubase ........................ 49
Using the n8/n12 with a DAW other than Cubase . 49
Audio Driver Setup .......................................... 49
MIDI Driver Setup ............................................ 49
Using the n8/n12 along with a multimedia
application ............................................................. 51
Troubleshooting ............................. 53
While using the mixer ............................................ 53
While using the mixer with a computer ................. 53
Index .............................................. 56
Appendix ........................................ 57
Specifications ........................................................ 57
Bus connections of n8/n12 and DAW ................... 60
Dimensional Diagrams .......................................... 63
Block Diagram ....................................................... 64
MIDI Implementation Chart ................................... 65
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