MACKIE CR1604 - VLZ - Manuel (Page 27)

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MIX (MAIN MIX TO SUBS switch up) and you
did a drum fade-out using subgroup faders
1
and 2, the “dry” signals would fade out, but the
“wet” signals would keep on singing. All you
would hear is the drum reverb (the “wet”), and
none of the original drum signals (the “dry”).
That’s because the reverb is being fed by the
channel’s
AUX sends, and they have no idea
that you’ve pulled down the subgroup faders.
That’s why we threw in these switches.
C-R/PHNS ONLY (AUX RET 4)
Once again, the default for all the STEREO
AUX RETURNS is to feed them directly into
the
MAIN L-R MIX. You’ve just learned about
the optional exceptions involving AUX
RETURN 3. AUX RETURN 4 also has an op-
tional exception: By engaging the
C-R/PHNS
switch, you will remove AUX RETURN 4’s ste-
reo signal from the MAIN L-R MIX and send it
directly to the C-R/PHONES SOURCE matrix
. It matters not if any of the SOURCE matrix
switches are assigned, but it will be inter-
rupted, as usual, if a
SOLO switch is engaged.
Let’s pretend you’re doing a live mix to a
2-track deck, a house PA, or both, and you
want to play along to a click track. You could
run the click track directly into the
MAIN L-R
MIX, but you don’t want the mixdown deck
and/or audience to hear it. By gum, this is the
switch for you. Similarly, it can be used for
voice-over tracks, narration, anything you want
heard by the engineer and players but not by
the audience and mixdown deck.
RETURNS SOLO
This switch operates just like the channel
SOLO switches — engaging it sends signals to
the
C-R OUTS, PHONES output and meter dis-
play and interrupts whatever happened to be
there before you soloed. It follows the
MODE
switch setting as well. The only difference is
that when you engage the RETURNS SOLO
switch, it sends all four STEREO AUX RETURNS
signals to the SOLO circuit.
Assume you want to solo the snare drum.
Hit that channel’s SOLO switch, and you get
the “dry” (no effects) snare only. That helps,
but you want to hear it with the reverb you
have patched into an
AUX RETURN. Leaving
that channel’s SOLO switch engaged, also en-
gage the RETURNS SOLO switch, and now
you’ll get the dry snare and its reverb.
Since it is a global feature, you’ll also get
the signals from all the other AUX RETURNS,
so there may be some sounds that you didn’t
want to hear. If they offend your sensibilities,
simply turn down the levels of the
STEREO
AUX RETURNS you don’t want to hear, or
MUTE the channels feeding the unwanted sig-
nal to the effects device you
do want to hear.
Congratulations! You’ve just read about all
the features of your CR1604-VLZ. You’re prob-
ably ready for a cold one. Go ahead. The rest of
the manual can wait.
STEREO AUX RETURNS
3
4
C-R / PHNS
ONLY
RETURNS
SOLO
MAIN MIX
TO SUBS
ASSIGN OPTIONS
1–2
3–4
U
O O +20
U
O O +20