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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. If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet. [. . . ] Soloed channels are sent to the source mix, which ultimately feeds your control room, phones, and meters. Whenever solo is engaged, all source selections (main mix, tape, and FireWire) are defeated, to allow the soloed signal to do just that--solo!Dear Betty, All this talk of solo reminded me of how happy we could be together. Let us be married this afternoon, in the bass amp section of the guitar store where we met!No longer will I be that guy at the company party who talks about EQ all evening. No longer will I spend my time in music stores telling everyone that "I wrote the manual for that!" Let me be your main mix!
41. SOLO
Whenever a solo switch is engaged, you will only hear the soloed channel(s) in the headphones and control room. This gives you the opportunity to audition the channels before they are added to the main mix. When a channel is soloed, you can adjust the channel gain [26] until your input source reaches the level of the 0 dB LED of the right meter.
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This 1/4" TRS connector supplies the output to your stereo headphones. It is the same signal that is routed to the control room outputs [16], as determined by the control room/phones source matrix [44, 45]. The volume is controlled with the phones knob [48], right next to the control room knob [47]. Whenever a solo switch [41] is engaged, you will only hear the soloed channel(s) in the headphones. This gives you the opportunity to audition the channels before they are added to the main mix. (Solo signals reaching the headphones are not affected by the channel level or main level, therefore turn down the phones level first, as soloed channels may be loud. ) The phones output follows standard conventions:
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Press this switch in to listen to the main mix in your control room and headphones, and to check the main mix levels in the meters. In addition to the main mix, you can listen to any combination of tape, FireWire and recording outs, depending on which of these switches [45] is engaged. If the assign to main mix switch [46] is engaged, you cannot hear the main mix in the control room or headphones, or see its level on the meters. This is to prevent feedback caused by sending the main mix to the main mix.
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Typically, the engineer sends the main mix to an audiPRE ence (for a live show) POST a mixdown deck (if recordor to 2 2 ing). [. . . ] The Onyx 1640i will only work with the 2. 0 driver, so if you have an OS before 10. 4. 11, you will need to check your system for updates from the nice folks at Apple. Go to the applications folder, open the utilities folder, anddouble-click"AudioMIDISetup. "
5. You can also choose it as your default input or output, as well as designate it to be used for system sound output. There are 16 channels of audio input from the Onyx 1640i, and 2 channels of audio output to the Onyx 1640i.
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